Ralph Ferguson

Ralph Ferguson PC ( * September 13 1929 in Mosa Township, Ontario ) is a Canadian farmer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was for several years a Member of the House of Commons and a short time Minister of Agriculture.

Life

Ferguson, who was a farmer by profession, was elected at the general election of 18 February 1980 as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the deputies in the lower house and represented there until his election defeat in the next election on September 4, 1984 the constituency Lambton - Middlesex.

On 4 March 1980 he took over his first government post and was initially until February 28, 1982 Parliamentary Secretary of the Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism. Thereafter, he served from 7 December 1983 to 9 July 1984 as Vice - Chairman of the Standing House of Commons Committee on Agriculture and later from March 1 to June 29, 1984 Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury.

Prime Minister John Turner appointed him on 30 June 1984 as Minister of Agriculture in the 23 Canadian Cabinet, where he remained until the end of Turner 's brief tenure on September 16, 1984.

In the general election of 21 November 1988 he succeeded in re-entry into the House of Commons, in which he again the constituency Lambton - Middlesex represented. In the elections on 25 October 1993, he opted not to run again and retired from the House of Commons from.

In the aftermath Ferguson took over in the Liberal multiple function and was between February 1989 and March 1993 opposition spokesman for agriculture and at the same time from February 1989 to September 1990 Group spokesman for cereals and oilseeds, and then between September 1990 to September 1993 appointed Deputy Opposition spokesman for international trade.

Publications

• Compare the share, Phase I: Canadian farmers need a fair share of the consumer food dollar, Ottawa 1991
• Compare the share, Phase II: the comparisons continue, Ottawa 1992