Backbencher
Backbencher A backbencher is a Member of Parliament or a ... Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. A backbencher may be a new parliamentary member yet ... External links The BBC's definition of 'backbencher'
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Loraine Braham
... a relatively uneventful first term as a backbencher, but when she attempted to recontest her ... career Braham's five years as a backbencher and Speaker had generally been uneventful, but ... later, with her portfolios being given to backbencher Dr Richard Lim . Speculation then turned to ...
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Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006/07
... in 2006 • Junior minister under Martin• Backbencher for a decade under Chretien. Sergio Marchi ... Toronto, ON(Toronto—Danforth)Defeated in 2004 • Backbencher for 16 years under Turner, Chrétien and ...
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Bertie Ahern
... a TD, Ahern was just another anonymous backbencher, but did display ambition. In 1979 when ... years old, whether he is Taoiseach, a backbencher or otherwise. Coincidentally the 2011 retirement date ...
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Osie Villeneuve
... 788 votes. Villeneuve served as a government backbencher until Thomas Laird Kennedy and Leslie Frost ... 1977 and 1981, and served as a backbencher in the John Robarts and William Davis ...
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Earl Collins
... by acclamation and sat as a government backbencher. He was re-elected in the 1945 ... the coalition. He served as a government backbencher for another four years, and did not ...
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John Poole
... government. Poole initially sat as a government backbencher, but left the coalition prior to the ... provincial election. He served as a government backbencher supporting the coalition, and did not seek ...
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Nicholas Stryk
... St. Clements. He served as a government backbencher in the parliament which followed. Stryk sought ... legislature. He again served as a government backbencher, and died the following year.
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Ronald Turner
... He remained in the legislature as a backbencher, but did not seek re-election in 1958. As a backbencher, he opposed the CCF's plan for ...
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Marcel Beaubien
... election, and Beaubien served as a government backbencher for the next four years. In 1998 ... to cabinet and served as a government backbencher. On April 25, 2002, newly minted Premier ...
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