Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election

The Conservative Party of Canada is intending to run a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election. Some of these candidates have separate biography pages; relevant information about other candidates may be found here.

The candidates are listed by province and riding name.

British Columbia

Robin Baird (Victoria)

Robin Baird (b. 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Crown prosecutor and private lawyer in Victoria, British Columbia. He is authorized to practice law in French. He has graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in 1986, Queen’s University with a LL.B in 1989 and London School of Economics with a LL.M in 1999. He has served on the Glenlyon Norfolk School Alumni Board (B.C.), the Mayor of Victoria’s Advisory Committee on Construction of A Multiplex Facility and the St. Michaels University School Alumni Association.

John Cummins (Delta—Richmond East)

John Cummins is the incumbent representative of this riding and a former commercial fisherman and teacher. He was first elected in the 1993 federal election and re-elected in 1997, 2000 and 2004. In the last parliamentary session he served as a member on the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

Phil Eidsvik (Newton—North Delta)

Eidsvik is a commercial fisher. He has served as an executive director of the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition. He is a fishing activist.

Edward Fast (Abbotsford)

Fast is a lawyer who focuses on corporate, commercial and real estate development law. He earned his law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1982. He has lived in Abbotsford for 23 years. He was elected to the Abbotsford School Board 1985 and 1988. He was elected to the Abbotsford city council in 1996 and re-elected in 1999 and 2002.

Nina Grewal (Fleetwood—Port Kells)

Nina Grewal is the incumbent representative of this riding and a former sales manager selling Registered Education Savings Plans. She was first elected in the 2004 federal election and served as the Vice-Chair on the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. She was born in Japan but earned a Bachelor's degree in history and English literature while studying in India.

Russ Hiebert (South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale)

Russ Hiebert is the incumbent representative of this riding and a former lawyer. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election. In the last parliamentary session he served as a member on the Legislative Committee on Bill C-38 and the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

Randy Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission)

Randy Kamp is the incumbent representative of this riding. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election. He is a former clergyperson and department store manager. In the last parliamentary session he served on the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

David Matta (Surrey North)

Matta is an instructor at Stenberg College. He was born in Eygpt but earned a master's degree in psychology at Trinity Western University. He has lived in Surrey since 1995.

Darrel Reid (Richmond)

Reid is a 48 year old vice-president of Current Corporation making night-vision systems for the maritime and security industry. He served as president of Focus on the Family Canada between 1998-2004. He has also worked as a political staffer for the Reform Party of Canada.

Chuck Strahl (Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon)

Chuck Strahl is the incumbent representative of this riding. He was first elected in the 1993 federal election and re-elected in 1997, 2000 and 2004. He is a former logging and road-building contractor. In the last parliamentary session he served as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons.

Mark Warawa (Langley)

Mark Warawa is the incumbent representative of this riding and a former loss prevention officer for ICBC. He was elected to the Abbotsford city council in 1990 and as an MP in the 2004 federal election. In the last parliamentary session he served as a member on the Legislative Committee on Bill C-38 and the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

Ontario

Peter Conroy (Beaches—East York)

Peter was born and raised in Beaches-East York, where he attended St. Denis elementary school and Cardinal Newman Secondary School. After completing an Honours degree in History and Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, he worked for a Member of Parliament in Ottawa as an Executive and Legislative Assistant for four years. In that role, Peter’s passion for shaping public policy and strengthening the democratic process intensified. He returned to his roots, Beaches-East York, in order to start a family and pursue a career in business.

Peter and his wife Shelley have three children: twin daughters Alexandra and Elizabeth and son Jacob. They are homeowners in the Upper Beach area and their daughters attend school in the neighbourhood.

Peter is an active member of the Beaches Lions Club where he has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars in support of dozens of local causes, including Kew Play and Community Centre 55’s Hamper program. His entrepreneurial spirit and skill has helped to develop one of the most successful Lion’s Club fundraisers, the selling of Christmas Trees at Kew Gardens Park. Peter and three childhood friends have nurtured this community-based business, The Christmas Tree Company, since 1992. This venture has also raised thousands of dollars in support of the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada.

Peter works full-time in the financial industry. As a founder of and an executive at CollectiveBid Systems Inc, he successfully launched a fixed income exchange designed to eliminate the inefficiencies in the $5 Trillion Canadian Bond Market. Peter currently works for the Toronto Stock Exchange. As Senior Business Development Manager, Peter works with young and mature businesses to assist in their growth, as well as to promote the Canadian capital markets throughout the world.

Peter is a strong advocate of conservative principles. He firmly endorses the policies contained in the March 2005 Conservative Party of Canada Policy Declaration.

John Carmichael (Don Valley West)

A Canadian businessman, Carmichael studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Western Ontario.

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Lewis Reford

Born in 1960 in Ottawa, Lewis spent his early childhood in Australia and Egypt where his scientist father was posted. Moving back to Canada in time to start kindergarten, he spent the rest of his childhood in Quebec’s Ottawa Valley, where he became fluently bilingual. His childhood days were also spent, helping out in the family's 200-acre beef farm, with summers of hay-bailing, ploughing and fence-mending, and winters of woodcutting and caring for the farm animals.

To further his CEGEP college education, Lewis attended the Colorado School of Mines, where he graduated with a BSc honours degree in geophysical engineering. A summer job with Exxon led to his first career, posting in frontier oil exploration in Perth, Western Australia, where he worked for close to two years. After that stint, he returned to the academic world to undertake post-graduate work in geology at the University of Cambridge in England.

From Cambridge, Lewis embarked on a new career path in global finance, first in London with Citicorp Investment Bank, and then in Paris with energy multinational Total S.A. He met his Canadian wife, Susan, in Paris and their eldest son was born there. While based in Europe, Lewis’s work took him further afield to Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

He returned to Canada and resided in Toronto Centre in 1993, where he worked in investment banking for Smith Barney and J.P. Morgan out of offices in Toronto and New York respectively. It was in Toronto Centre that he became actively involved with the Conservative Party of Canada.

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