The
Reform Party of Canada
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fielded candidates in every
Canadian
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province except
Quebec
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in the
1993 federal election. Fifty-two candidates were elected. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Ontario
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Lincoln
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: Andy Sweck
Andy Sweck was born in
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
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, and is of
Polish
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and
Ukrainian
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background. He has a
Bachelor's Degree
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from
McMaster University
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, and joined
Stelco
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as a graduate trustee in 1978. At the time of his political career, he was a senior supervisor for the company. He joined the Reform Party in 1991, and was a founding member of its
Hamilton Mountain
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constituency association. He ran for the party in Lincoln in the
1993 federal election, and finished second against
Liberal
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Tony Valeri
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.
Sweck ran against prominent national politician
Sheila Copps
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in a 1996
by-election
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. His campaign was marked by controversy: one day after he was chosen as a candidate, Sweck fired Terry Ott as his campaign manager. Ott later claimed that he was dismissed at the behest of the party's national executive, who were seeking to take over the local campaign. Sweck rejected this explanation, and said that he simply did not believe Ott was the most qualified person for the position. Ott also said that the nomination meeting had been rigged in Sweck's favour; both Sweck and the defeated candidate denied this.
Sweck sought to focus attention on Copps's record, and particularly her party's broken promise on eliminating Canada's
Goods and Services Tax. He also called for reforms to the
Young Offenders Act
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, such that persons as young as ten could be charged with committing violent crimes. He finished fourth, in what was considered a disappointing result for the party, and returned to private life.
Nickel Belt
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: Janice Weitzel
Janice Weitzel was a
supply teacher
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. She received 5,604 votes (12.70%), finishing third against
Liberal
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candidate
Ray Bonin
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. Her campaign was generally regarded to have taken votes from the second-place
New Democratic Party
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, and to have indirectly helped the Liberals.
Ottawa—Vanier
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: Sam Dancey
Dancey holds a
Master of Arts
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degree (1981) from the
Occidental Institute of Chinese Studies
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in
Miami
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,
Florida
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. He was thirty-nine years old during the election, and operated a foster home for emotionally disturbed children (''Ottawa Citizen'', 7 October 1993). He promoted fast expansion of
Highway 16
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;Parts of the Trans-Canada Highway:
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and improved air links with the
United States
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, and rejected suggestions that the Reform Party's plans to reduce the national civil service would cause significant unemployment rises in
Ottwa (''Citizen'', 7 October 1993).
He received 3,830 votes (7.89%), finishing third against
Liberal
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incumbent
Jean-Robert Gauthier
Jean-Robert Gauthier, (October 22, 1929 – December 10, 2009) was a Canadian politician.
A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada to represent t ...
. He campaigned for the party's nomination in a 1995 by-election in Ottawa—Vanier, but lost to Kevin Gaudet (''Ottawa Citizen'', 7 January 1995).
Dancey wrote opinion-editorials on behalf of the Reform Party during the 1990s, arguing in support of "territorial bilingualism" (''Montreal Gazette'', 18 July 1994) and criticizing
affirmative action programs as discriminatory (''Ottawa Citizen'', 23 July 1995). During the
1999 provincial election, he accused the labour movement of promoting violence at
Queen's Park (''Ottawa Citizen'', 1 June 1999).
Parkdale—High Park
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: Lee Primeau
Primeau is a graduate of
Southeastern University
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in
Lakeland,
Florida
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, and
Missouri State University
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in
Springfield, Missouri
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. He holds both
Bachelor of Arts
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and
Master of Arts
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degrees. He is also a business consultant, President and
CEO
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of Leader_Shift Inc., and is the owner and co-founder of eSO’L Connection Inc. He was thirty-four years old at the time of the 1993 election, and lived in
Mississauga
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. He received 6,647 votes (16.16%), finishing second against
Liberal
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incumbent
Jesse Flis.
Parry Sound—Muskoka
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The riding consists of the Territorial District of Parry Sound (excluding the Town of Powassan, ...
: Jim Newman
Jim Newman worked on campaigns for the
Liberal Party of Canada
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during
Pierre Trudeau
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's leadership and joined the Reform Party in 1992. He was a real estate broker in
Sundridge in 1993 and was president of the Eagle Lake Revolver Club. He received 13,022 votes (28.19%), finishing second against Liberal candidate
Andy Mitchell.
As of 2010, Newman is leader of a small national organization called the Canadian Firearms Institute.
Scarborough Southwest
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: Aubrey Millard
Millard was a high school teacher and counsellor. He called for "greater certainty in criminal sentencing", and said he would work for the "integration of immigrants into society" (''Toronto Star'', 22 October 1993). At one all-candidates meeting, he argued that immigration levels to Canada were too high and should be cut in half. This remark was criticized by other candidates, and particularly by
New Democrat
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Steve Thomas (''Toronto Star'', 19 October 1993). He received 8,314 votes (21.21%), finishing second against
Liberal
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incumbent
Tom Wappel
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.
St. Paul's: Paul Chaplin
Chaplin was a retired businessman at the time of the election. He initially sought the Reform Party's nomination in
Don Valley West
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, but lost to
John A. Gamble, a former
Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament
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(MP) who was once an executive member of the
World Anti-Communist League
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(''Toronto Star'', 1 April 1993). Gamble was later expelled from the party. Running in St. Paul's, Chaplin received 5,727 votes (11.20%), finishing third against
Liberal
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candidate
Barry Campbell
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Campbell was born in Montrea ...
.
Manitoba
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Portage—Interlake
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This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Lisgar, Portage—Marquette and ...
: Don Sawatsky
Sawatsky was a businessman from
Oak Bluff, dealing in mobile homes. He received 9,801 votes (27.48%), finishing second against
Liberal
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candidate
Jon Gerrard
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.
Sawatsky later served on the Reform Party's national council. In 1996, he argued that most
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
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supported the Reform Party rather than the
Progressive Conservative Party at the federal level. Two years later, he said that he could not envision a merger of the two federal parties.
In 2000, Sawatsky nominated
Brian Pallister
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as a federal candidate for the
Canadian Alliance
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party, a successor to Reform.
[Helen Fallding, "Pallister carries Alliance flag", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 2 November 2000, A1.]
Winnipeg South
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: Mark Hughes
Hughes graduated from the
University of Manitoba
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in 1978, and was a farmer for ten years. He also began working as a pastor, and received a degree from Providence Theological Seminary in 1988. He is senior pastor of Church of the Rock Inc. as of 200
and was a prominent organizer of
Winnipeg
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's March for Jesus (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 9 June 2000).
Hughes was thirty-six years old during the 1993 election (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 19 September 1993). He created controversy in the campaign by arguing that a Reform government would give provinces more leeway in approving medical user fees, privately run hospitals and contracting-out of services (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 7 April 1993). When challenged as to whether or not the Reform party was a vehicle for the religious right, he responded, "Evangelicals feel at home. But there is a broad spectrum of every kind of faith - well, I don't see any
Sikh
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s - but it's far from a right-wing religious party." (''Globe and Mail'', 28 December 1992). He received 14,822 votes (28.33%), finishing second against
Liberal
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candidate
Reg Alcock
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Hughes has been a vocal opponent of
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. In 1996, he launched a petition drive against a federal bill including sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 8 May 1996). He also spoke against openly
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Winnipeg mayoral candidate
Glen Murray in 1998, opposing what he described as "the values behind
urray'ssexuality and the political agenda of those who share these same values" (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 13 November 1998).
Saskatchewan
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Saskatoon—Clark's Crossing Saskatoon—Clark's Crossing was a federal electoral district in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Saskatoon West riding.
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: Frederick Wesolowski
Wesolowski was born and raised in
Saskatoon
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,
Saskatchewan
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, and holds
Bachelor of Arts
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degree from the
University of Saskatchewan
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and the
University of Regina
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. He is a police officer, and has been a member of the Saskatoon Catholic School Board since 1988.
Wesolowski was first elected to the Catholic School Board in 1988, and has been re-elected in every campaign since them. When campaigning for re-election in 1997, he argued that Catholic students would be at risk "both spiritually and academically" if the Catholic school system were to shift away from a denominationally centred curriculum. (''SSP'', 20 October 1997). He also called for trustees to address the problem of poverty among students in the system.
While serving as trustee, Wesolowski has also made several unsuccessful bids for a seat on City Council. He targeted the Ward 3 incumbent in 1997 for voting against the police commission budget, and lost by only twenty-five votes. (''SSP'', 20 and 3 December 1997). He later campaigned for Ward 1 in 2000, seeking increases in the police budget and arguing that the city would have to hire more officers if it wanted to develop plans for community policing (''SSP'', 23 October 2000). He was again defeated. He has also lost bids for Ward 5 in 1994 and 2003 (''SSP'', 12 September 2000 + 23 October 2003).
Wesolowski supported
affirmative action programs for Saskatoon Catholic teachers in 2001, arguing that past policies had discriminated against women and aboriginals. His initiative was defeated (''Regina Leader-Post'', 5 September 2001).
He finished a close second against
New Democratic Party
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candidate
Chris Axworthy
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in the 1993 election. He later ran for the Reform Party's nomination in
Wanuskewin for the
1997 federal election, but lost to
Maurice Vellacott
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(''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', 17 May 1997).
Candidates in subsequent by-elections
Brome—Missisquoi
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: Line Maheux
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Reform Party
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received 517 votes (1.38%), finishing fourth against
Liberal Party
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candidate
Denis Paradis
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. She later became a prominent strategist in the Reform Party and its successors, the
Canadian Alliance
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and the
Conservative Party of Canada
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.
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