Progressive Canadian Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election
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The Progressive Canadian Party fielded several candidates in the 2006 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.
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[edit] Jim Love (Beaches—East York)
Love was born on February 24, 1956 in Port Arthur, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from York University, and is now a management consultant in Toronto. He is a managing partner in Performance Advantage, and also works with Innovate Inc. in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Love is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants, with the designation CMC, and was vice-president of the DMR group from 1997 to 2003. He is also a musician, and received a Juno nomination for an album he recorded with the group Sphere. The group was granted a gold record for the children's music hit song "Sharing".[1]
Love joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1995, and became president of its Beaches—East York association. Love opposed the Progressive Conservative Party's merger with the Canadian Alliance in 2003-04, and following the merger became one of 100 Progressive Conservatives to form the Progressive Canadian Party. He was an organizer for the new party in the 2004 election, and became party president in 2005 by a unanimous vote of the national council. He also chaired the party's National Election Campaign in the 2006.[2] Love has argued that the Progressive Conservative Party's merger with the Alliance was conducted to purge the party of David Orchard's growing influence, rather than to "unite the right" in Canada (Toronto Star, 12 November 2005).
He received 183 votes (0.36%) in 2006, finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Maria Minna.
[edit] Jeffrey Bogaerts (Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington)
Bogaerts has worked in Information Technology since 1978, and is the president of J.D. Bogaerts Enterprises Inc. He has produced products for the provincial and federal governments, for NATO, and for private companies.[3]
He campaigned for the Lanark—Carleton Progressive Conservative nomination in 2003, shortly before the party's merger with the Canadian Alliance (Ottawa Citizen, 25 June 2003). Bogaerts supported the rights of local farmers who were shooting overpopulated deer herds that threatened area property, despite legal prohibitions against their actions (Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 June 2003).
Bogaerts's 2006 campaign website featured a prominent image of Sir John A. Macdonald, who represented the area during the 1880s. Like his Conservative Party opponent, he called for the entrenchment of property rights in the Canadian Constitution.[4] He received 735 votes (1.24%) in 2006, finishing fifth against Conservative incumbent Scott Reid.
[edit] Chris Schnurr (Windsor West)
Schnurr (born in Wingham, Ontario) is an executive assistant to the vice-president of University Advancement at the University of Windsor (Windsor Star, 1 October 2005) He also operates a graphic design business.[5] A former member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he describes himself as fiscally conservative and socially moderate (Windsor Star, 6 January 2006).
He is openly gay, and has called for greater AIDS/HIV awareness in the Windsor gay community (Star, 7 December 2004). Before joining the Progressive Canadian Party, he planned to vote for the Liberals in the 2006 election because of concerns about the Conservative Party's social policies (Star, 19 April 2005). In 1999, he organized the first gay pride parade in Sarnia (Globe and Mail, 23 August 1999).
In 2005, Schnurr wrote a Letter to the Editor supporting the energy policies of the former provincial government of Mike Harris, which required energy consumers to pay the real cost of electricity. Schnurr argued that the policy encouraged conservation, and criticized the succeeding governments of Ernie Eves and Dalton McGuinty for supporting artificially lower rates (Star, 10 August 2005). He has also called upon the government to address rising gas prices, otherwise they could be faced with a renewed demand for the nationalization of the oil industry (Star, 14 September 2005).
Schnurr has argued against affirmative action policies for universities, describing such policies as reverse discrimination (Star, 7 April 2003). He was an opponent of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Star, 13 December 2002).
He is a candidate for city council for the City of Windsor municipal election in November 2006 [6].
He received 614 votes (1.29%), finished fifth out of seven against New Democratic Party incumbent Brian Masse during the 2006 federal election.
