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Andrew Scheer (born May 20, 1979) is a Canadian Member of Parliament. May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ...
Scheer was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He graduated from Immaculata High School and studied history and politics at the University of Ottawa. This article is about the capital city of Canada. ...
Immaculata High School is a Roman catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by the OCCSB. It is currently located along the Rideau Canal near the Glebe neighbourhood in Ottawa. ...
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While attending university, Scheer worked in the correspondence department of the Office of the Leader of the Opposition (OLO) in Ottawa. He then worked for Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament (MP) Larry Spencer. Prior to running in the 2004 election, Scheer worked as an accredited Insurance Broker in Regina, selling home and auto insurance. The Canadian Alliance, formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Larry Spencer is a Baptist pastor in Canada, and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Saskatchewan riding of ReginaâLumsdenâLake Centre. ...
A professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation often called simply certification or qualification is a designation earned by a person to certify that he is qualified to perform a job. ...
Nickname: The Queen City Motto: Floreat Regina (Let Regina Flourish) Location of Regina in the SE quadrant of Saskatchewan Coordinates: Country Canada Province Saskatchewan District Assiniboia Established 1882 Government - City Mayor Pat Fiacco - Governing body Regina City Council - MPs Dave Batters Ralph Goodale Tom Lukiwski Andrew Scheer - MLAs Joanne Crofford...
Scheer was elected as a Conservative candidate in the 2004 elections in the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle, beating veteran New Democratic Party MP Lorne Nystrom by 861 votes. He was re-elected in the 2006 elections, once again defeating Nystrom, this time by a margin of 2,740 votes, an increase of 318%. During this campaign, Scheer suffered embarrassment when his personal weblog was hacked into and taken over, linking to internet pornography websites.[1][2] The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a conservative political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...
The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
ReginaâQuAppelle is the name of a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada. ...
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The Honourable Lorne Edmund Nystrom, PC (born April 26, 1946) a Canadian politician, was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 2004, except for an interval from 1993, when he lost re-election, to 1997. ...
Rendition of party representation in the 39th Canadian parliament decided by this election. ...
A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ...
Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed via the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. ...
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He is currently the second-youngest sitting MP. He is married to Jill. Andrew and his wife have two children: a son, Thomas, born on March 20th, 2005, and a daughter - Grace, born on February 15th, 2007. In April 2006 Andrew was named one of three deputy speakers and is one of the youngest Members of Parliament to serve in that role in commonwealth history.
Notes
- ^ Sask. MP's weblog target of web hijinks. Saskatoon Star Phoenix (2006-01-11). Retrieved on 2007-05-03.
- ^ Hall, Angela (2006-01-11), "Election blogging has its drawbacks", Regina Leader Post: A.1
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