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  Canadian federal election, 1963 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
Despite winning 41% of the vote, which is usually sufficient for ensuring the election of a majority government, the Liberals fell seven seats short of their target.
They were again disappointed by the failure of their new partnership with the labour movement to produce an electoral breakthrough, particularly in the province of Ontario, which has the largest population and the largest number of seats in the House of Commons.
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 canadian federal election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
The most recent instance of this was the 1988 election, which was considered by most parties to be a referendum on free trade with the United States.
Canadian election turn-out is generally higher than that in the United States but lower than in most European nations.
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 Canadian federal election, 1988 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
It was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
The election was the last for Canada's Social Credit movement: the party won no seats, and insignificant portion of the popular vote.
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 Canadian federal election, 1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1867, held on September 20th, was the first election for the new nation of Canada.
As it was, Brown ran concurrently for seats in the Ontario legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and hoped to become Premier of Ontario.
Elections held in the previous year in the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia focussed on the issue of whether or not to form a confederation.
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 Canadian federal election, 1957 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1957 was held June 10, 1957 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
In addition, Western Canadians felt alienated from a government that they believed was dominated by Ontario and Quebec interests.
This was the first Canadian election to be televised, and while only a minority of Canadians owned a television, most got some opportunity to see the candidates they were voting for.
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 Canadian social credit movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party effectively came to an end in the 1996 election when it failed to win a single seat in the legislature, and received only 0.4% of votes cast.
The party was riven by internal dissent for the remainder of its history, capturing two seats in the 1973 election, and only one in the 1976 election, the last time a créditiste was elected to the Quebec National Assembly.
The Canadian Action Party has monetary reform policies in its platform, but is not considered to be a social credit party.
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 Canadian_federal_election,_2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000.
The election was regarded as a great success by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal Party, but a failure for every other party.
On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.
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 Canadian federal election, 1980 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1980 was held on February 18, 1980 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
Clark and his government had been under attack for its perceived inexperience, for example, in its handling of its 1979 election campaign commitment to move Canada's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
A New Democrat was elected in the subsequent by-election.
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 Canadian federal election, 1965 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In the Canadian federal election of 1965, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
This was the first election for the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical party led by Cornelius the First.
Cornelius, a resident of the Granby zoo, did not seek election because Canadian election law does not permit rhinoceroses or other zoo animals to seek election.
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 Canadian federal election, 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The 1988 Canadian federal election was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
The newly founded Reform Party of Canada also contested the election, but was considered little more than a fringe group, and did not win any seats.
The election was held November 21, 1988, and 76% of eligible voters cast a ballot.
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 Pat Carney biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Carney first ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 Canadian election and was defeated.
She was first elected in the 1980 Canadian election as Member of Parliament from Vancouver Centre.
When the Tories formed government under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as a result of the 1984 Canadian election, Carney was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and was responsible for dismantling the previous government's unpopular National Energy Policy.
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 David Dingwall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lawyer by training, Dingwall was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1980 Canadian federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Breton-East Richmond in Nova Scotia.
He was re-elected in three subsequent elections, and served as Opposition House Leader from 1991 to 1993.
After the Liberals won the 1993 Canadian election under Jean Chrétien, Dingwall was appointed to Cabinet as Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Supply and Services.
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 Ian Deans biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He was first elected to the Ontario legislature as an Ontario New Democratic Party MPP in the 1967 provincial election representing the Hamilton-area riding of Wentworth.
Deans resigned from the legislature the next year and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons during the 1980 Canadian election representing Hamilton Mountain.
His wife, Diane Deans, is an Ottawa city councillor and ran for the Liberal Party nomination for the 2004 Canadian election in the riding of Ottawa South losing to David McGuinty.
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 The Canadian Encyclopedia
Gouzenko was protected by his Canadian neighbour, who got him and his family to safety, called the police and told the agents when they returned that the Gouzenkos were away.
Gouzenko’s revelations shattered the innocence of the naïve Canadian populace.
On March 14, 26 other Canadians were arrested for spying, including MP Fred Rosenberg.
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 1980 Election and Energy Policy Articles
Born in Spedden, he served in the Canadian armed forces, during the Second World War, served on the Vegreville town council and from 1959 - 1971 was elected to serve the Alberta Legislature as the Vegreville MLA.
Canadian for instance, would pay at the gas pumps for the Conservative energy policy and the money would go to the foreign owned oil companies.
With the disclosure by American press reports of the now famous Canadian caper in which the Canadian Embassy in Iran was instrumental in returning six embassy officials to the United States and the national anxiety of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mr.
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 Canadian federal election, 1980   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The 1980 Canadian federal election was called when the minority Progressive Conservative government led by Joe Clark was defeated on a motion of no confidence in the Canadian House of Commons.
Clark and his government had also been under attack for its perceived inexperience, for example, in its handling of its 1979 election campaign copmmitment to move Canada's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Social Credit Party lost its last five seats in the Canadian House of Commons, and rapidly declined into obscurity after this election.
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 Erik Nielsen biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
After the Tories were defeated in the 1980 Canadian election he served as Opposition House Leader from 1981 until 1983 and engineered the Bell Ringing Affair to protest the Liberal government's omnibus energy bill.
The business of the Canadian House of Commons ground to a halt for three weeks because the Opposition refused to respond to the bell summoning Members of Parliament to come to the chamber to vote.
Nielsen served as Acting Leader of the Opposition in 1983 between the resignation of Joe Clark and the election of Brian Mulroney, and continued to lead the party in the House until Mulroney won a seat in a by-election at which point Nielsen returned to his previous position as House Leader.
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 Canadian federal election, 1984 biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The 1984 Canadian federal election was called on July 4, 1984, and held on September 4 of that year.
The election was won fought almost entirely on the record of the governing Liberals.
The election was a landslide victory for the Progressive Conservatives.
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1980 Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 1998 wrote "Apes, Language, and the Human Mind." It was based on her work with Kanzi, a bonobo ape, that began in 1980 at the Georgia State Univ. Language Research Center.
1980 Louis Alvarez proposed that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago at the Tertiary - Cretaceous boundary was due to a large meteor impact based on a thin line of sediment of dark clay containing unusually high levels of iridium at the boundary.
1980 In El Salvador an agricultural reform was instituted and the Finca El Espina coffee plantation was confiscated from the Duenas family and given to their workers, who formed a cooperative.
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 Canadian Election 2000 (Research Note 17 2000-01)
Essentially the election had the one major issue: whether or not voters could take a chance with the Alliance.
As the campaign developed, the Liberal opinion poll lead was reduced, possibly because of the manner in which the election also became a plebiscite on the standing of the Prime Minister.
Canadian politics is heavily regionalised, and the 2000 election confirmed the extent of this.
www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/2000-01/01RN17.htm   (1193 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Although the Liberal party lost its majority in parliament in the general elections of Oct., 1972, Trudeau remained in office, relying on the support of the small New Democratic party to give him a parliamentary majority.
His government was defeated (May, 1974) on a motion of no confidence brought against the budget, but in the ensuing elections (July, 1974) Trudeau and the Liberals regained their parliamentary majority.
Sensitive to the linguistic preferences of his fellow French Canadians, he led Canada to become an officially bilingual nation in 1984 and was a consistent supporter of multiculturalism.
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 Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In the Canadian federal election, 1974election of 1974, Trudeau was re-elected with a majority government.
In the Canadian federal election, 1979election of 1979 Trudeau's government was defeated by the Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaProgressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.
Canadians remain subject to double jeopardy, in the sense that the Crown retains the right to appeal acquittals (a right upheld by the Supreme Court in 1988 as consistent with the Charter), and Canadian libel laws still do not incorporate a presumption of innocence.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
David MacDonald was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative MP from his native Prince Edward Island in the 1965 Canadian election.
With the Tory victory in the 1979 Candian election he became Minister of Communications, Minister responsible for the Status of Women and Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived Cabinet of Joe Clark.
MacDonald lost his seat in the 1980 Canadian election but returned, this time as MP for the Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1988 Canadian election.
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1980 election, in which the PCs were defeated by the resurgent Trudeau Liberals.
This election was the last that the Social Credit Party would win seats.
= not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election.
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After the Tories were defeated in the 1980 Canadian election he served as Opposition
Canadian House of Commons ground to a halt for three weeks because the Opposition refused to respond to the bell summoning
The Canadian Conspiracy, comically alleging a Canadian subversion of the United States through its media.
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 Aboriginals and Canadian Election 2004 - One Man's Opinion
In Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a Canadian Alliance candidate Brian Fitzpatrick, said he was just trying to break the tension at an all-candidates' forum, when he joked that he didn't have to worry about being scalped, because he was bald.
In the 2004 federal election, the Conservative Party of Canada is fielding a complete set of Candidates in all 308 ridings in the country, including Garry Breitkreuz who thinks he should be re-elected.
I believe the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, an integral aspect of the Canadian Constitution, is threatened by the Conservative Party of Canada and their mantra of Equal Rights.
www.turtleisland.org /news/elect2004.htm   (2298 words)

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