- Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He is the first ever Prime Minister from his current political party, and the first since 1993 from any "Conservative" party, following twelve years of government by the Liberal Party. - Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h.c.) (born August 28, 1938) was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada and a former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister on December 12, 2003. The 2004 election yielded a minority government in which the Liberals under Martin remained in power. - Stéphane Dion
Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, MP, Ph.D., (born September 28, 1955 in Quebec City, Quebec) is the current leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons. Since 1996, he has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Laurent–Cartierville in Montreal. Dion is a former academic who served as a cabinet minister under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. - Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, usually known as Jean Chrétien, PC, CC, QC, BA, BCL, LLD (h.c.) (born January 11, 1934), served as the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003. He was also the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003. - Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard. - Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - Belinda Stronach
Belinda Stronach has scraped together what smarts she could muster and has dropped out of the Liberal leadership race. She thought she could go off into the sunset quietly, but, boy, was she ever wrong. The newspapers today essentially ripped her a new one for using some really silly pretext for dropping out, instead of admitting to the real reasons: She can't speak French, and she'll never learn it. She simply has no talent for languages. - Garth Turner
Mr. Turner, 59, was a Conservative when he was first elected to the Commons in 1988. He served briefly as revenue minister and ran unsuccessfully for the Tory leadership in 1993 and lost in the general election that year. - Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy, (born July 24 1960 in The Pas, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread food bank, which he did until entering politics in 1996. - Ralph Goodale
Ralph Edward Goodale, PC, MP, BA, LL.B (born October 5, 1949, in Regina, Saskatchewan) was Canada's Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006 and continues to be a Liberal Member of Parliament. He was named Opposition House Leader by Bill Graham. Goodale was born in Regina and raised on a farm near Wilcox. Before serving in Ottawa he had lived in the province of Saskatchewan for his entire life. - Bill Graham
William C. "Bill" Graham, PC, QC, LL.D, D.U., B.A.(Hon.), (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician. In 2006, he was Canada's Leader of the Opposition as well as the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada between the resignation of Paul Martin and the election of Stephane Dion as his successor. - Scott Brison
Scott A. Brison, PC, MP, BComm (born, Windsor, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian politician. He was Minister of Public Works and Government Services under Paul Martin and ran to succeed Martin as party leader in the 2006 Liberal leadership convention. He dropped out after the first ballot and endorsed Bob Rae. Brison represents the Nova Scotia riding of Kings—Hants as a Liberal Member of Parliament, and was Canada's first openly gay member of Cabinet, … - Jim Flaherty
James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, BA, LL.B, MP (born December 30, 1949) is Canada's Minister of Finance; he had formerly served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005 he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, representing the Progressive Conservative Party. He was previously a senior cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris, and has sought the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives on two occasions. - Martha Hall Findlay
Martha Hall Findlay is a Canadian lawyer, businesswoman and politician. She is the Liberal's candidate in the Toronto riding of Willowdale in the upcoming federal election and was previously the party's candidate for Newmarket—Aurora in the 2004 federal election, losing narrowly to Conservative candidate Belinda Stronach. She was the first declared candidate for the Liberal Party leadership convention to succeed Paul Martin. - Irwin Cotler
Professor Cotler teaches constitutional law, international human rights law, law and poverty, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, discrimination and the law, civil liberties, and comparative and international protection of minorities' rights. His main research areas are freedom of expression and assaultive speech, equality law, peace and human rights, and comparative constitutional law. - David Emerson
David Lee Emerson, PC, Ph.D, MA, MP (born September 17, 1945, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was previously a businessman and a civil servant. Emerson is Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics in the Canadian Cabinet. Like all other federal cabinet members, he is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and has the right to the style "The Honourable" for life. - Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier, PC, MP (born January 18, 1963) is Canada's Minister of Industry and Registrar General. A businessman and lawyer, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the January 2006 federal election to represent the riding of Beauce with 67% of the vote, the highest in a Quebec riding. The riding had previously been won by the Liberal Party. His father, Gilles Bernier, represented the riding from 1984 to 1997. - Adam Daifallah
Adam Daifallah is a conservative Canadian journalist and political author. Daifallah served on the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation’s National Executive as Policy Director, and was later President of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Campus Association while he studied at Queen's University. He has been a newspaper writer since 2002, working as Washington, … - Joe Volpe
Giuseppe (Joseph) Volpe, PC, MP (born September 21, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and held two senior positions in Prime Minister Paul Martin's Cabinet. In 2006, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party. He was subsequently named Party's transportation critic by new leader Stéphane Dion. - John Manley
John Paul Manley, (born January 5, 1950, in Ottawa, Ontario) PC, BA, LL.B is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He is a former Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004 and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003. - John McCallum
John McCallum, PC, MP, MA, Ph.D (born April 9, 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist and university professor. Following the 2006 Federal Election, he became the Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet. Before the election, he was the thirty-seventh Minister of National Revenue and was also the Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation, the Royal Canadian Mint, from 2004 to 2006 and acting Minister of Natural Resources from 2005 to 2006. - Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau (born December 25, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper. Trudeau has recently won the federal Liberal Party nomination in the Montreal riding of Papineau. - David McGuinty
David Joseph McGuinty (born February 25, 1960 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and the brother of Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. He is also the son of former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dalton McGuinty Sr.. He is a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Ottawa South. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election and was re-elected in the 2006 federal election. - Sheila Copps
Sheila Maureen Copps, PC, HBA, LL.D (hc), (born November 27, 1952, in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and former politician. Copps is a second-generation member of a political family that has dominated Hamilton-area politics on the municipal, provincial and federal levels. Her father, Victor K. Copps, was one of the most influential mayors of the City of Hamilton; the city's landmark sports arena, Copps Coliseum, is named in his honour. - Scott Reid
Scott Reid was the deputy chief of staff (operations) in the Prime Minister's Office of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, as well as one of Martin's senior advisors. He made frequent appearances in Canadian media speaking on behalf of the PMO and the Liberal Party of Canada. During the 2005-06 election campaign, he has served as director of communications for the campaign. Reid has a B.A. in history and politics from Queen's University. - Marlene Jennings
Marlene Jennings, PC, MP (born November 10, 1951, in Longueuil, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. She is a current member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, and has represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine since 1997. Jennings is also a former lawyer and a senior public servant. She is the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation, … - Hedy Fry
Hedy Fry, PC, MP, MD (born August 6 1941) is a Canadian politician and physician. Fry was born into poverty in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Declining an English Literature scholarship to Oxford, Fry instead earned her equivalent of a BA in Science in one year and went on to then receive her medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. She emigrated to Canada and established a practice in Vancouver. - Bill Casey
William D. Casey is a Canadian politician. Casey currently sits as an independent MP. Casey was a businessman and stockbroker before going into politics. Casey was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus in the Canadian House of Commons. He was first elected, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, to represent the riding of Cumberland—Colchester in the 1988 election. - Keith Martin
Keith P. Martin, PC, MP, BSc, MD (born April 13, 1960, in London, UK) is a Canadian physician and politician. He is the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca. Martin was first elected in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada. However, unlike most Reformers, he was socially liberal, and he often clashed with Reform's conservative leaders. He is conservative on economic issues such as the privatization of health care services, … - Blair Wilson
Blair Wilson is the Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) in the 39th Canadian parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country electoral district. He was elected on January 23, 2006 in the 2006 federal election. He represents the Liberal Party of Canada. Blair Wilson is a chartered accountant, who lives in West Vancouver and owns a CA firm in North Vancouver. He is also a restaurateur who owns a restaurant in downtown Vancouver with his father and brother. - Navdeep Bains
Navdeep Singh Bains, PC, MP, BAS, MBA, CMA (born June 16, 1977) is a Canadian politician. From 7 October 2005 to February 2006, Bains served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bains is currently a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Mississauga—Brampton South since 2004. He was first elected federally in June 2004 and re-elected on January 23, 2006. - David Smith
David Smith (born September 25, 1963) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the Canadian House of Commons, Smith served as a city councillor in Maniwaki, Quebec until 2004. At this point, he ran in the Canadian federal election, 2004 for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Pontiac where he won. He is a former business manager and public servant. In October 2005, the "Globe and Mail" reported that Abotech, … - David Orchard
David Orchard (born June 28, 1950, in Borden, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian political figure and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was a member of the now defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party), and opposed the party's merger with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada. Orchard's political views would generally be regarded as left of center or even far left within the contemporary Canadian political context, … - Bev Oda
Beverley Joan Oda PC, BA, MP (born July 27, 1944 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Durham for the Conservative Party of Canada. She was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women on February 6, 2006. Oda has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She began her broadcasting career at TV Ontario in 1973, … - Diane Finley
Diane Finley PC, MP (born October 3, 1957 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She serves as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Haldimand—Norfolk for the Conservative Party. Finley was raised in Port Dover and Charlotteville, … - Carolyn Bennett
Carolyn A. Bennett, PC, MP, MD (born December 20, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario) is the Member of Parliament for the riding of St. Paul's, a constituency located in Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was formerly a candidate for its leadership. Dr. Bennett attended Havergal College, obtained her degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1974, and received her certification in Family Medicine in 1976. - Buzz Hargrove
Basil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove (born March 8, 1944, Bath, New Brunswick, Canada) is the current National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union. He succeeded Bob White as president of the CAW in 1992. He also serves as a Vice-President on the executive committee of the Canadian Labour Congress. In 1998, he co-authored the book "Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada" with Wayne Skene. - Jean Augustine
Jean Augustine, PC, B.A., M.A., LL.D (born September 9, 1937 in St. George's, Grenada) is a former Canadian politician. From 1993 to 2005 Augustine was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore. She is a former member of Cabinet, and a former school principal. Augustine served as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from 1994 to 1996, and was the Minister of State for multiculturalism, … - Anne McLellan
A. Anne McLellan, P.C., LL.M., LL.B, B.A. (born August 31, 1950, in Hants County, Nova Scotia) is an academic and politician. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, serving most recently as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. - Stephen Ledrew
Stephen LeDrew (b. 1953) is a Toronto-based lawyer, broadcast commentator and was President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1998 to 2003. As a lawyer, LeDrew dealt with public policy issues and inter-governmental affairs. He has served as the Executive Assistant to the Solicitor General of Canada, Government Affairs Counsel for Manulife, and Director of Operations in the Prime Minister's Office. He also has advised the private sector while serving in law.
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