Preston Manning

Ernest Preston Manning, CC ( born June 10, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ) is a Canadian politician.

Biography

Preston Manning is the son of longtime Prime Minister of Alberta and Senator for Alberta, Ernest Manning.

After schooling, he studied economics at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) from.

As a populist and evangelical Christian fundamentalist sermons he gave on the radio. As representatives of the Social Credit Party of Canada he unsuccessfully ran for the Canadian House of Commons elections for the first time in 1965 for a mandate.

He only returned to political life back as the delegates of the Reform Association of Canada decided in May 1987 to establish a new party at the federal level and on October 31, 1987 in Winnipeg, the Reform Party of Canada founded. Manning was then chosen as one of the key figures in the establishment next to Stanley Waters as Chairman of the party. The party grew out of the widespread sense of alienation in the western provinces, and with the aim of representing the interests of Western Canada by sending deputies to improve in the House of Commons in Ottawa. With the slogan "The West Wants In" ( The West wants in. ) sought the party for economic and political equality for western Canada. In the general election in 1988 the Reform Party won 2.09 percent, although at first, but missed a seat in the House of Commons.

For this reason, the party changed its target direction in 1991 to the organization of a pan- Canadian party and joined with the slogan "Building a New Canada" for an equal position of all provinces and territories of Canada. In the subsequent general election, 1993, the Reform Party already reached 18.69 percent of the vote and 52 seats. Manning himself was also elected to represent the constituency of Calgary Southwest for the Members of the House.

In the 1997 General Election, the party could increase its profit again and moved with 19.35 percent of the vote and 60 deputies in the lower house. Within ten years, so that a strong grouping and Manning was from the small western edge so that the leader of the opposition party. Despite the disappointment that no candidate of the party were elected outside of the western provinces, the party still expected a stronger weight in Western Canada with the federal government.

In January 2000, the party adopted its own resolution. After the dissolution took place on March 27, the founding of the party as Canadian Alliance, whose chairman initially Deborah Grey and then Stockwell Day were.

2002 Manning renounced his seat in the House and withdrew from politics. For his political services, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada.

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