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OTTAWA
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2002 @ 11:20 a.m.) Voters in Newfoundland and Ontario registered their
dissatisfaction with the federal government during Monday's by-elections
by ending the stranglehold
the Liberals have held on two ridings in those provinces for decades.
Municipal
politician and Tory candidate Rex Barnes won the riding of Gander-Grand Falls,
which was held by former Liberal MP George Baker for 28 years, and NDP candidate
and popular city councillor Brian Masse won Windsor West, which was the domain
of former Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray for 39 years.
Canadian Alliance leader
Stephen Harper won his Calgary Southwest riding handily, and the four remaining
by-elections - a second one in Newfoundland, two in Quebec and one in Manitoba -
were won by the Liberals.
The
other winners are:
-Liberal John Efford, Bonavista-Trinity-Conception;
-Massimo Pacetti, Saint-Léonard – Saint-Michel;
-Liza Frulla, Verdun-Saint-Henri-Saint-Paul-Pointe Saint-Charles, and
-Raymond Simard, Saint Boniface.
Click on the riding below
for more information about the by-election campaigns:
- Gander-Grand Falls and
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Saint-Léonard- Saint-Michel and
Verdun-Saint-Henri-Saint-Paul-Pointe
Saint-Charles in Quebec.
- Windsor West in Ontario.
- Saint Boniface in Manitoba.
- Calgary Southwest in Alberta.
The Alberta riding was held by former Reform
Party leader and founder Preston Manning who announced he would relinquish the
seat last year. He officially left federal politics in January.
The Newfoundland riding of
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception, the Montreal-area riding of Saint-Léonard
– Saint-Michel, Windsor West in Ontario and Saint Boniface in Manitoba were
vacated in January.
The remaining seats, one in Newfoundland and one in Quebec, became open on March
26.
All of the ridings, save for Calgary
southwest, are considered safe Grit seats.
Maps, demographic
information and
some other tid-bits about the ridings
.GIF) Former
Newfoundland cabinet minister Brian Tobin gave up
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception just days before Prime Minister Jean Chretien
shuffled his cabinet in January.
At the time, Tobin said he was leaving
politics for family reasons, but it has been speculated the 47-year-old was
frustrated with his attempts to organize an effective Liberal leadership bid.
Former Newfoundland provincial cabinet
minister John Efford has won the Liberal nomination in the riding, and is wildly
popular in the area.
David Tulett is the Canadian Alliance
candidate, while Michelle Brazil will represent the Progressive Conservative
Party.
Jim Gill will carry the NDP banner in the
riding and Christopher John Bradshaw will contest the seat for the Green Party
of Canada.
Brent Rockwood is running as an independent.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Jim
Gill's Web site (NDP)
David
Tulett's Campaign Brochure
(CA)
Click
here for information on the Progressive Conservative candidate
 On
March 26, the Prime Minister appointed George Baker, former Newfoundland MP for
Gander-Grand Falls, to
the Senate.
Beaton Tulk, resigned as Newfoundland and
Labrador's Deputy-Premier on April 2 to become the Liberal candidate in the
riding.
Grand Falls town
councillor Rex Barnes will contest the seat for the Progressive Conservatives,
while Garry Hartle will represent the Canadian Alliance.
John Lannon is the New Democratic nominee in
the riding.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Garry Hartle
Biography
(CA)
Click
for more information about Mr. Lannon (NDP)
Click
here for information on the Progressive Conservative candidate
 Former
Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano, who served as MP for Saint-Léonard –
Saint-Michel, resigned his seat to accept the ambassador's job in Denmark in
January. His departure came amid a cloud of controversy that he interfered in
the operations of a Crown Corporation while he served as minister.
Massimo Pacetti will be the Liberal
candidate in the St. Léonard-St. Michel by-election.
Antonio Cordeiro will try to win the riding
for the Progressive Conservative party, while
Normand Caplette will try to do the same for the NDP.
Umberto Di Genova will run for the Bloc Québécois'
and Marc-Boris St-Maurice is the Marijuana Party
candidate.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Click here to read more about the Bloc
Quebecois candidate
Normand
Caplette's Web site (NDP)
Click
here for information on the Progressive Conservative candidate
 On
March 26, the Prime Minister appointed Raymond Lavigne, former Montreal-area MP
for Verdun-Saint-Henri-Saint-Paul-Pointe Saint-Charles to the Senate.
Liza Frulla, a
former Quebec communications and cultural affairs minister, is the Liberal
nominee in the riding.
The Bloc Québécois candidate is Sonia
Goulet, and the NDP candidate is Matthew McLauchlin.
Joe De Santis is the Canadian Alliance
candidate and Robert Lindblad is running as an Independent
candidate.
Bernard Côté will represent the Tories
during the campaign.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Click here to read more about the Bloc
Quebecois candidate
Matthew
McLauchlin's Web site (NDP)
Click
here for information on the Progressive Conservative candidate
 Herb
Gray, former MP for Windsor West, was dropped from cabinet after a distinguished
career in Ottawa. He was subsequently appointed Chair of the Canadian Section of
the International Joint Commission.
Local lawyer Richard Pollack has the Grit
nomination. He'll square off against autoworker
Richard Fuschi.
Windsor city councillor Brian Masse is
expected to challenge the seat for the New Democratic Party.
Rick Fuschi will try to win the seat for the
Canadian Alliance, and the Green Party candidate is Chris Holt. Allan James will
represent the Christian Heritage Party in the riding, and Ian West will try to
win the seat for the Tories.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Richard
Pollack's Web site (Liberal)
Brian
Masse's Web site (NDP)
Ian
West's Web site (PC)
Richard
Fuschi's Web site (CA)
Chris
Holt's Web site (Green
Party)
 Ronald
J. Duhamel, who had served in cabinet as Minister of Veterans Affairs and
Secretary of State Western Economic Diversification, resigned his Saint Boniface
seat to accept a Senate appointment in January.
Area businessman Raymond Simard will be the
Liberal candidate.
Denis Simard is contesting the riding for
the Canadian Alliance.
Mike Reilly is the (Progressive Conservative
candidate, and the Marijuana Party will be represented by Chris MaBuors.
The NDP candidate is John Parry, while
Jean-Paul Kabashiki is the Christian Heritage Party candidate.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Denis
Simard's Web site (CA)
John
Parry's Web site (NDP)
Click
here for information on the Progressive Conservative candidate
 Calgary Southwest was vacated in 2002 when Reform Party founder Preston Manning
left politics.
Ezra Levant, a
former Stockwell Day communications advisor who had won the party's nomination
in the riding, stepped aside for newly-elected leader
Stephen Harper on March 28. The
Liberals and the Tories have decided not to field candidates in the Alberta
byelection. But the NDP are not extending that courtesy to Harper. Rev. Bill
Phipps, a former moderator of the United Church of Canada, is the NDP candidate. James
S. Kohut will try to win the seat for the Green Party, while Ron Gray will
represent the Christian Heritage Party. Gordon
Barrett is running as an independent.
Candidate Web sites and related on line
documents
Stephen
Harper Campaign Brochure (CA)
Bill
Phipps Web site (NDP)
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