Jack Horner (politician)

Biography

Professional and political career

Horner was in 1945 with 18 years manager of a father's property located in the Farm and 1947 owners own farm.

He began his political career as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) in 1958 with the first election for members of the Canadian House of Commons. There he first represented the constituency since 1968 Acadia and then the newly created constituency of Crowfoot. Within a short time he acquired a reputation as an arch-conservative speaker of the farmers of Western Canada and thus belonged to the group of so-called " Diefenbaker Cowboys ".

In 1976, he applied for the successor of Robert Stanfield as chairman of the PC, but was defeated Joe Clark. On April 20, 1977, he resigned from the PC, as Clark had assured him for the next general elections in 1979 no support for re- nomination in the constituency of Crowfoot. Instead, he became a member of the Liberal Party of Canada (LP).

The next day he was appointed the Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister without portfolio in his government. A few months later he was appointed as part of a cabinet reshuffle in September 1977 Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce in Trudeau's cabinet. After the electoral defeat of the Liberal Party of Canada in the elections 1979 Horner resigned from the government and from the House of Commons.

A short time later, however, he was appointed to the board of the Canadian National Railway, whose board he chaired between 1982 and 1984. Subsequently, he was from 1984 to 1988 Administrator of the Agency for cereals in the Prairie region ( Prairie Grain Agency).

Family

Ralph Horner Horner's father was like him. Board member of the Canadian National Railway and from 1933 until his death in 1964 a member of the Canadian Senate representing the province of Saskatchewan

His older brother Hugh Horner was 1958-1967 also a Member of the House of Commons and at times minister in the government of Alberta. His younger brother Norval Horner was 1972-1974 also a member of the lower house, as well as his cousin Albert Horner, who was from 1958 to 1968 Member of the House of Commons.