Hugh McFadyen

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Hugh McFadyen (born 1967) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada, and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

McFadyen has worked as a lawyer, senior political advisor (in the latter capacity for both former Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon and current Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz), and had a successful career in junior curling. He is the nephew of former provincial Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Linda McIntosh and belongs to the Anglican Church ([1]).

In 1986, McFadyen skipped his Manitoba curling team to a Canadian Junior Championship. The team's win qualified them for the 1987 World Junior Curling Championships where they won a silver medal, losing to Scotland's Douglas Dryburgh. His third, Jon Mead, would go on to play for Jeff Stoughton, while his second, Norman Gould, went on to curling success in Japan followed by coaching the 1996 Jeff Stoughton World Championship Curling Team. McFadyen remains an active supporter of the popular winter sport in Manitoba.

In 2005, he was nominated for the Conservative Party nomination in the federal riding of Winnipeg South for the 2006 federal election. Later in the year, he resigned the nomination to successfully contest the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba nomination for a provincial by-election in Fort Whyte. On both occasions, he defeated Rod Bruinooge for the nomination.

On December 13, 2005, McFadyen won the by-election with approximately 52% of the vote and became the MLA for Fort Whyte. On February 23, 2006, McFadyen was the first candidate to announce that he will seek to succeed Stuart Murray as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. He was elected to the position on April 29.