Rick Anderson

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Rick Anderson is a prominent Canadian political strategist and businessman. In the 1980s, he worked for the Liberal Party of Canada. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he changed party affiliations and orchestrated many of the policies of the Reform Party of Canada under its leader Preston Manning.

Following the morphing of Reform into its new incarnation as the Canadian Alliance in 2000, Anderson ceased to play a direct role in policy formulation.

Anderson gained some attention in the 2006 Canadian federal election campaign. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had a recurring feature throughout the campaign entitled "Campaign Confidential", in which an unidentified "former campaigner", who was actually Anderson, provided detailed written analyses of the campaign which were then read by an actor on television. The identity of Anderson as the analyst was revealed on January 24, 2006, the day after the election.

Since 2004, Anderson has served as president and CEO of Zip.ca, a Canadian DVD mail rental company.