Natural Law candidates, 1993 Canadian federal election
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The Natural Law Party of Canada ran several candidates in the 1993 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.
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[edit] Manitoba
[edit] Richard Lepinsky (Winnipeg South)
Lepinsky was the owner of Consumers Insurance & Real Estate agency at the time of the election. In 1994, he was listed as president of the Independent Real Estate Brokers Association of Manitoba (Winnipeg Free Press, 30 August 1994). He received 197 votes (0.38%) in the 1993 election, finishing sixth against Liberal candidate Reg Alcock.
As of 2005, the president of The Compassionate Friends of Canada, Inc. is named Richard Lepinsky.[1] It is probable that this is the same person.
[edit] Ontario
[edit] Chris Wilson (Kingston and the Islands)
At the time of the election, Wilson led an organization of fifty transcendental meditation teachers in Ottawa, Ontario and was an assistant professor at the Maharishi International University in Iowa (Kingston Whig-Standard, 3 October 1993). He promised to help Canada's 100,000 unemployed youth by providing videotaped lessons in transcendental meditation and the Constitution of the Universe, for a fee of $15-60 per session (Ottawa Citizen, 21 August 1993). He received 376 votes (0.66%), finishing seventh against Liberal incumbent Peter Milliken.
[edit] Rick C. Weberg (St. Paul's)
Weberg is a Bay Street broker, and has served as director of the Toronto Association of Professionals Practicing the Transcendental Meditation program (Globe and Mail, 5 May 1988). He organized at least one "yogic flying" contest in the late 1980s, which featured crosslegged hopping races by TM participants (Toronto Star, 18 May 1987). In 1992, he became vice-president of Maharishi Veda Land Canada Inc. (MVLC) (Globe and Mail, 19 March 1992).
He received 313 votes (0.61%) in 1993, finishing seventh against Liberal candidate Barry Campbell. Later in the year, the government of Quebec prohibited Weberg and other MVLC directors from seeking investors in that province, on the grounds that the company had promoted its shares to potential investors without issuing a prospectus (Globe and Mail, 2 December 1993).
