The
Canadian Alliance
fielded several candidates in the
2000 federal election
, and won sixty-six seats to become the
Official Opposition
party in the
House of Commons of Canada
. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
This page also provides information for Canadian Alliance candidates who contested by-elections between 2000 and 2003.
All electoral information is taken from
Elections Canada
.
Note: this section is incomplete.
Etienne is a lawyer in
Toronto
, and was twenty-six years old at the time of the election. He said that he chose to enter the campaign to protest Canada's support for a
United Nations
resolution that was critical of
Israel
.
[10]
He also supported tax incentives for religious school tuition.
[11]
He received 5,497 votes (13.26%), finishing third against
Liberal
incumbent
Joseph Volpe
. Etienne has been involved in several high-profile legal cases since 2000, including a 2004 defence of an illegal
Jamaican
immigrant who argued that his life would be in danger if he was deported. Etienne succeeded in winning him the right to stay in Canada.
[12]
In 2005, he was listed as co-chair of Toronto Friends of
Falun Gong
.
[13]
McAdam is a political consultant. He first campaigned for public office in the
1993 federal election
as the
Reform Party
candidates in
Kingston and the Islands
. He was twenty-four years old at the time, and a
Political Science
student at
Queen's University
(
Kingston Whig-Standard
, 23 October 1993). He finished third against
Liberal
incumbent
Peter Milliken
, and later worked on the
Ottawa
staff of federal Reform Party leader
Preston Manning
.
McAdam ran for the Reform Party again in the
1997 election
, defeating Vito D. Luceno and Laurie Greenidge for the nomination in
Hastings?Frontenac?Lennox and Addington
(
KWS
, 7 October 1996). He focused on gun control as a primary issue (
KWS
, 17 May 1997), and finished third against Liberal
Larry McCormick
. After the election, McAdam worked for two years in the office of Reform
Member of Parliament
(MP)
Art Hanger
before becoming Manning's
Question Period
advisor (
National Post
, 1 May 1999). He was an early supporter of the Reform Party's
United Alternative
initiative, which eventually led to the creation of the Canadian Alliance (
KWS
, 2 June 1998). He worked as a senior aide to
Stockwell Day
in late 2000, after Day defeated Manning to become Alliance leader.
McAdam won the HFLA Alliance nomination over Vito Luceno and former
Member of Provincial Parliament
Gary Fox
for the 2000 election (
KWS
, 23 October 2000) and, although the riding was seen as winnable for his party, lost to McCormick a second time (
KWS
, 28 November 2000. He continued to work for Day until March 2001, when he returned to work for Art Hanger. In April, he supported Hanger's call for Day to resign as leader (
National Post
, 24 April 2001). He later said, "Once I started to work with [Day] in a senior position it was clear to me that he wasn't the man for the job" (
KWS
, 17 May 2001). He worked as a senior aide to the breakaway
Democratic Representative Caucus
later in the year. He was also critical of plans to have
Stephen Harper
challenge Day for the Alliance leadership, writing that Harper "seems to focus more on the differences than on what can unite" (
National Post
, 16 August 2001).
McAdam has also worked as a
palm reader
and
hypnotist
(
National Post
, 1 May 1999).
Goligher was born in
Montreal, Quebec
, Canada. He is a veteran of the
Canadian Forces
and has done extensive service overseas, including in
Cyprus
and
Sinai
(
KWS
, 6 May and 31 October 2000). He lived in
Kingston, Ontario
during the 1980s, and returned to the city in 1995 after retiring from the army. Goligher was forty-six years old in 2000, worked as a freelance writer, and was a member of the
Kingston Whig-Standard
Community Editorial Board (
KWS
, 17 January 2000). Originally a
Progressive Conservative
, he joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000 after a request to campaign for the party. He defeated former riding president Siobhain Fiene to win the nomination (
KWS
, 26 October 2000), and received 7,904 votes (15.44%) to finish third against
Liberal
incumbent
Peter Milliken
.
Gayowsky was born in
Brandon, Manitoba
to a
Ukrainian Canadian
family, and was a career diplomat for thirty-six years before running for public office. He served in
Scandinavia
,
Finland
,
Italy
and the
Soviet Union
, and became Canada's first consul general to
Ukraine
in 1991 (
Edmonton Journal
, 29 December 1990). After Canada recognized Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, Gayowsky was named charge d'affaires of the Canadian embassy (
Toronto Star
, 27 January 1992). He later represented the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
in
Kyiv
(
Financial Post
, 20 November 1993).
He received 7,600 votes (15.79%) in 2000, finishing second against
Liberal
incumbent
Mauril Belanger
. A newspaper report from the election lists him as 66 years old. He supported a bridge over the
Ottawa River
east of
Kettle Island
, and criticized the Liberal government's record on taxes and patronage (
Ottawa Citizen
, 18 November 2000).
Gayowsky later moved to
British Columbia
, and was campaign manager for
Conservative
candidate
James Lunney
in the
2004 election
(
Victoria Times-Colonist
, 17 May 2004). He remains interested in Ukrainian affairs, and was an
OCSE
observer for the late 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, won by
Victor Yushchenko
(
Ottawa Citizen
, 4 December 2004).
George Stripe
was thirty-seven years old during the election and worked as a supply teacher with the
Near North District School Board
.
[14]
He received 9,569 votes (25.39%), finishing second to
Liberal
incumbent
Andy Mitchell
.
[15]
Eric John Allan Mann
is a beef farmer in
Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield
, near the city of
Peterborough
. He is active in the local
Baptist
community.
[16]
A graduate of
Peterborough Teachers College
, he taught
elementary school
for six years in the 1970s. He was also a
trustee
on the
Peterborough County Board of Education
from 1985 to 1994.
[17]
In 1988, he criticized an
Ontario Court of Appeal
decision that struck down classroom recitations of the
Lord's Prayer
.
[18]
Mann supported the
Reform Party of Canada
in the 1990s and backed
Stockwell Day
's bid to lead the successor Canadian Alliance in 2000. He was fifty years old at the time of the 2000 election, and was president of the East Central Christian Farmers Association and chair of the Smith-Ennismore Police Services Board.
[19]
He won the Alliance nomination for Peterborough in an upset over Nancy Branscombe, a prominent national organizer who had been the Reform Party's nominee in 1997.
[20]
During the campaign, Mann openly disagreed with his party's position on recognizing indigenous communities simply as municipalities; he said that it would "not be appropriate to have [these communities] under the complete control of the provincial governments."
[21]
He received 14,924 votes (28.54%), finishing second against
Liberal
incumbent
Peter Adams
.
Mann later supported the Alliance's merger with the more moderate
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
to create the
Conservative Party of Canada
.
[22]
Before running for office, Randy Dumont was for many years a popular radio personality on
CKTB
FM in
St. Catharines
under the name Randy Taylor. He was laid off from the station in May 2000 by a program manager who argued that he did not fit the station's "moderate approach" (
Hamilton Spectator
, 6 May 2000), and briefly worked at
CFRB
in
Toronto
prior to the election. He used his stage name as an unofficial middle name for the 2000 campaign (
Vancouver Sun
, 30 October 2000).
One national reporter described him as a "shock jock" in the style of
Howard Stern
, writing that he once ran a stunt contest won by "a man who nailed his testicles to a board". In response to criticisms, Dumont argued that he was simply playing a character when on-air (
Globe and Mail
, 22 November 2000). He was quoted as saying during the campaign, "We cannot afford to have an 'everything for everyone' health care system any more...We have the perfect opportunity now to look at private enterprise to deliver much-needed health services." (
Canada NewsWire
, 10 November 2000)
Dumont received 15,871 votes (33.97%), finishing second against
Liberal
incumbent
Walt Lastewka
. He returned to CFRB in 2002?2003, before leaving to do a
television
show entitled "Spirit of Life".
[1]
El-Khazen was born in the
British Mandate of Palestine
(
Globe and Mail
, 19 October 1998). He holds a
Bachelor of Engineering
degree from
Damascus University
(1969), a
Master of Engineering
degree from the
American University of Beirut
(1973), and
Master of Science
degree in Physics from
York University
(1982). He has also completed
PhD
level courses at York University.
El-Khazen has worked as a consulting structural engineer since 1978, was given
Professional Engineer
status in Ontario since 1979, and is the owner of El-Khazen Consulting Ltd. In 1996, he became a member of the Maintenance Transportation Policy Advisory Committee of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
.
[2]
He supported
Preston Manning
's
United Alternative
movement in 2002, which led to the creation of the Canadian Alliance.
[3]
He received 4,912 votes (13.73%) in the 2000 election, finishing third against
Liberal
incumbent
Tom Wappel
. He was 54 years old at the time of the election (
Toronto Star
, 19 November 2000).
El-Khazen was a liaison between Liberal
Member of Parliament
(MP)
Judy Sgro
and the PEO Toronto-Humber & Mississauga Chapters after the 2000 election.
[4]
Mike Smith
moved to
Sudbury
in 1965, and studied marketing at
Cambrian College
. He worked in sales, and had been a consultant at Nordic Bearings Inc. for fourteen years by the time of the 2000 election.
Smith first ran for the
Reform Party
in 1993, and later supported that party's re-constitution as the Canadian Alliance. In 2000, he said that his party would introduce tax cuts while maintaining social programs, and would eliminate regional development corporations such as FedNor.
[23]
He also argued that the Canadian Alliance had been unfairly caricatured as intolerant.
[24]
When the Liberals won a
majority government
in the election, Smith said that they would "bankrupt this country and kill off all our social programs".
[25]
In 2003, Smith supported the Canadian Alliance's merger with the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
to create the
Conservative Party of Canada
. He supported
Belinda Stronach
in the leadership campaign that followed.
[26]
Gillespie was 35 years old at the time of the election (
Toronto Star
, 23 November 2000), and worked as a police officer in
Toronto
(
Toronto Star
, 28 October 2000). He took a leave of absence from his official duties, and campaigned on a "law and order" platform (
Toronto Star
, 28 November 2000). He received 13,159 votes (26.98%), finishing second against
Liberal
incumbent
Judi Longfield
.
In earlier years, Gillespie had played
bass guitar
in a new-wave band with
Our Lady Peace
guitarist Mike Turner (
Toronto Star
, 11 November 2000).
Nestibo was born on 19 May 1951 in
Deloraine
. He works a farmer in
Goodlands
, Manitoba,
[27]
and has been a director of Keystone Agricultural Producers and the
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association
, which opposes the single-desk marketing policy of the
Canadian Wheat Board
.
[28]
He unsuccessfully tried to start a $4.5 million hog operation in
Deloraine
in 1998, as a director of Southwest Stock Farms Ltd.
[29]
Nestibo sought and won the
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
nomination for
Arthur-Virden
in April 1999, defeating rival candidate Dale Smeltz on the third ballot.
Larry Maguire
and Grant Fotheringham had been eliminated in earlier counts. One of his nominators described Nestibo as a family man who was "categorically willing to defend the
Biblical
principles this nation was founded upon". He was 47 years old.
[30]
Soon after the nomination meeting, Nestibo was accused of participating in an alleged land-for-votes scheme in the previous year's
municipal elections
. Nestibo and several others were alleged to have purchased marginal land in the
Rural Municipality of Winchester
for a low fee, and then voted for Jim Holden, the seller, in a council election.
[31]
The party investigated Nestibo's actions, and determined that he had acted in an unethical manner. His nomination was annulled, and he was expelled from the party.
[32]
Nestibo maintained that he did nothing wrong, saying that the land purchase was part of a compensation agreement for damaged floodland and had nothing to do with the election.
[33]
His wife, Lorna Nestibo, contested the vacated Arthur-Virden nomination and lost to
Larry Maguire
.
[34]
Despite the controversy, Nestibo indicated that he would continue to support the Progressive Conservative Party.
[35]
Nestibo's membership in the provincial Progressive Conservative Party was reinstated in early 2000. Later in the year, he announced that he would support the newly formed
Canadian Alliance
at the federal level. In May 2000, he hosted a fundraising dinner for Alliance leadership candidate
Stockwell Day
in
Brandon
.
[36]
In October, he won the Brandon?Souris nomination in an upset over former Brandon mayor
Reg Atkinson
and Jason Shaw.
[37]
Nestibo's campaign focused on agricultural issues, although he also articulated
socially conservative
positions on
abortion
and
same-sex marriage
.
[38]
He received 11,678 votes (31.87%), finishing second against
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
incumbent
Rick Borotsik
.
Nestibo was appointed to the Turtle Mountain Conservation District in 2004.
[39]
Smith was born on 18 March 1928 in
Winnipeg
. He was a
civil servant
at the Manitoba Land Title Office & Lands Branch from 1945 to 1951, and worked in land administration for the
oil
sector from 1951 to 1974. He was the secretary-manager of a recreational club in
Calgary
from 1974 to 1978, and owned a restaurant in
White Rock
,
British Columbia
until retiring in 1989.
[5]
He became involved with the Reform Party while living in British Columbia in 1989, and remained active after returning to Winnipeg.
A
Winnipeg Free Press
report from 1997 identifies Hancock as a thirty-five-year-old political analyst (24 March 1997). In 2000, he listed himself as a consultant. He received 12,638 votes (30.04%), finishing second against
Liberal Party
incumbent
Reg Alcock
.
Granger's campaign was marked by controversy over comments that she made concerning an "Asian invasion" of Canadian universities. She suspended her campaign in late November 2004, after acknowledging that her comments were inappropriate. Her name remained on the ballot, and she received 3,210 votes (8.53%) to finish fourth against
Liberal
candidate
Anita Neville
.
Rattai was a 33-year-old accountant. He won the Alliance nomination without opposition.
[40]
His campaign office was vandalized during the election period, and messages such as "Don't vote 4 bigots or homophobes like the Alliance" were scrawled on the windows in black marker. Rattai argued that the Alliance stood for tolerance, and said that the messages were unfair.
[41]
Following the campaign, he charged that some of his brochures had been altered without his knowledge to portray him as a
neo-Nazi
. Winnipeg police launched a hate crimes investigation into the manner.
[42]
He received 8,336 votes (25.44%), finishing second against
New Democratic Party
incumbent
Bill Blaikie
. Rattai acknowledged that he had little chance of winning the election, and was quoted as saying, "Our attitude was, 'Let's go in and have some fun.' We're not here to beat on Bill Blaikie. I respect Bill Blaikie."
[43]
He served on the Alliance's governing council after the election. In early 2001, he criticized former
Reform Party
leader
Preston Manning
for allegedly undermining Alliance leader
Stockwell Day
.
[44]
After being appointed chairman of the Alliance fund later in the year, Rattai introduced significant internal spending cuts to target the party's debt.
[45]
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Simard was born, raised and educated in
St. Boniface
,
Winnipeg
, Manitoba. At the time of his candidacies, he worked as a diesel mechanic in that city. He joined the
Reform Party
in 1991, and remained with the party until it joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000 (
Winnipeg Free Press
, 25 May 1997). He campaigned for the Reform Party in St. Boniface in the
1997 federal election
, and finished third against
Liberal
Ron Duhamel
with 6,658 votes.
Simard was the Manitoba organizer for
Tom Long's
bid to lead the
Canadian Alliance
in 2000. When Long was eliminated from the contest after the first ballot, he turned his support to the eventual winner,
Stockwell Day
(
Regina Leader Post
, 28 June 2000). Simard sought the Canadian Alliance nomination for
Provencher
in the
2000 federal election
, but finished fourth against
Vic Toews
(
Winnipeg Free Press
, 31 October 2000).
Simard received 4,497 votes (21.73%) in the 2002 by-election, finishing second against his distant cousin, Liberal candidate
Raymond Simard
.
A different Denis Simard campaigned for the Reform Party in a 1996 by-election in
Lac-Saint-Jean
, while a third Denis Simard has campaigned for the
Parti Quebecois
.
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- ^
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(
Gilles Duceppe
)
- Canadian Action
(
Paul Hellyer
,
candidates
)
- Canadian Alliance
(
Stockwell Day
,
candidates
)
- Christian Heritage
(de-registered,
candidates
)
- Communist
(
Miguel Figueroa
,
candidates
)
- Green
(
Joan Russow
,
candidates
)
- Liberal
(
Jean Chretien
,
candidates
)
- Marijuana
(
Marc-Boris St-Maurice
,
candidates
)
- Marxist?Leninist
(Sandra L. Smith,
candidates
)
- Natural Law
(Neil Paterson,
candidates
)
- New Democrats
(
Alexa McDonough
,
candidates
)
- Progressive Conservative
(
Joe Clark
,
candidates
)
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House of Commons
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