Natural Law Party candidates, 2000 Canadian federal election

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The Natural Law Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 2000 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.

1 Ontario
2 Footnotes

[edit] Ontario

[edit] Matthew Macleod (Eglinton—Lawrence)

Macleod is a musician. He has released an album entitled Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and performed a solo concert at EcoFair 2003 (organized by the Maharishi University of Management).^[1] He received 133 votes (0.32%), finishing seventh against Liberal incumbent Joe Volpe.

[edit] Helene Anne Darisse (Hamilton East)

Darisse, also called Helene Darisse-Yildirim, is a teacher and video producer from the Niagara Falls area. She holds Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees (Canada NewsWire, 17 December 2000), and is a member of the Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition [1], and the Canadian Yoga Alliance.[2]

Darisse was a perennial candidate for the Natural Law Party at both the federal and provincial levels.

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1993 federal	Oshawa	Natural Law	263		7/9	Ivan Grose, Liberal
1995 provincial	Welland—Thorold	Natural Law	232		5/5	Peter Kormos, New Democratic Party
1997 federal	St. Catharines	Natural Law	245	0.51	7/7	Walt Lastewka, Liberal
1999 provincial	St. Catharines	Natural Law	272	0.58	4/6	Jim Bradley, Liberal
2000 federal	Hamilton East	Natural Law	97		9/9	Sheila Copps, Liberal

[edit] Rita Rassenberg (Hamilton West)

Rassenberg was born in Switzerland, and moved to Canada in her 20s. She has worked as an office administrator, bookkeeper, sales manager and real-estate estate (Hamilton Spectator, 16 November 2000).

She was a frequent candidate for the Natural Law Party at both the provincial and federal levels.

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1993 federal	Hamilton West	Natural Law	396		6/7	Stan Keyes, Liberal
1995 provincial	Hamilton West	Natural Law	284		5/6	Lillian Ross, Progressive Conservative
1999 provincial	Hamilton West	Natural Law	231	0.56	7/7	David Christopherson, New Democratic Party
2000 federal	Hamilton West	Natural Law	94		8/10	Stan Keyes, Liberal

[edit] Britt Roberts (Lanark—Carleton)

Roberts was a perennial candidate for the Natural Law Party. He campaigned in the federal elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000, and also campaigned for the Natural Law Party of Ontario in 1999.

Roberts became active in transcendental meditation while attending the University of Toronto, and studied yogic flying at a Natural Law conference in the United States in 1983. He completed a Master of Business Administration degree in Iowa, and moved to Ottawa in 1994. Roberts has been active in the Maharishi Global Development Fund.

During the 1999 provincial election, Roberts described the Natural Law Party's development as follows: "It's about providing a new paradigm. In the first stage, people just ignore it, and then they ridicule. Then, they admit that they agreed with it all along. We may still be at the early stages of that process, but it is coming." He was 45 years old at the time (Kingston Whig-Standard, 29 May 1999).

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1993 federal	Lanark—Carleton	Natural Law	262		7/9	Ian Murray, Liberal
1997 federal	Lanark—Carleton	Natural Law	181		7/7	Ian Murray, Liberal
1999 provincial	Leeds—Grenville	Natural Law	244		5/5	Bob Runciman, Progressive Conservative
2000 federal	Lanark—Carleton	Natural Law	107	0.17	8/8	Scott Reid, Canadian Alliance

[edit] PIerrette J. Blondin (Ottawa—Vanier)

Blondin has a Master of Education degree. She was a frequent candidate for the NLP at the provincial and federal levels. During the 1995 provincial election, she described herself as having twenty-eight years' experience as a teacher in the Ottawa-Carleton French School Board, and fifteen years' experience with transcendental meditation.[3]

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1993 federal	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell	Natural Law	456		5/6	Don Boudria, Liberal
1995 provincial	Prescott and Russell	Natural Law	446		6/6	Jean-Marc Lalonde, Liberal
1999 provincial	Ottawa—Vanier	Natural Law	580		5/6	Claudette Boyer, Liberal
2000 federal	Ottawa—Vanier	Natural Law	187	0.39	7/9	Mauril Belanger, Liberal

[edit] Jim Morris (St. Catharines)

Morris listed himself as the lead hand at Dominion Controls.[4] He was a frequent candidate for the NLP at the provincial and federal levels.

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1995 provincial	Oxford	Natural Law	275		6/7	Ernie Hardeman, Progressive Conservative
1997 federal	Oxford	Natural Law	181		7/7	John Finlay, Liberal
1999 provincial	Oxford	Natural Law	203		7/7	Ernie Hardeman, Progressive Conservative
2000 federal	St. Catharines	Natural Law	203	0.43	5/7	Walt Lastewka, Liberal