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TheConservative Party of Canada ran a full slate of candidates in the2004 federal election, and won 99 seats out of 308 to form theOfficial Opposition. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Dalton received 9,173 votes (29.3%), losing to the region's incumbent,John Efford.

Wynanne Downer lost toincumbentGerry Byrne of theLiberal Party of Canada. Downer received 6,538 votes to Byrne's 17,820.

Downer sat on theCorner Brook City Council following there local election inSeptember 2005 serving until she died of cancer in July 2007.^[1]

Strachan lost toLawrence D. O'Brien of theLiberal Party of Canada, receiving 1,400 votes to O'Brien's 5,524.

Larry Peckford lost toBill Matthews of theLiberal Party of Canada, receiving 4,820 votes to Matthews's 12,383. He is the younger brother of former Newfoundland premierBrian Peckford.

Norman Doyle defeatedWalter Noel of theLiberal Party of Canada, receiving 15,073 votes to Noel's 13,343. Doyle is a former member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly serving from 1979 until 1993. Doyle was later appointed to the senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2011)

Loyola Hearn defeatedSiobhan Coady of theLiberal Party of Canada, receiving 13,330 votes to Coady's 11,879. Hearn formerly represented St. John's West in the House of Commons and is a former member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. Hearn was later appointed Canadian ambassador to Ireland (2010)

Peter McQuaid lost toLawrence MacAulay of theLiberal Party of Canada. McQuaid received 6,889 votes to MacAulay's 11,064. McQuaid was long-time Chief of Staff for PEI premierPat Binns

MacDonald finished third. The winner wasMichael Savage of theLiberal Party of Canada. MacDonald received 8,739 votes to Savage's 17,425.

David H. McArthur was an executive at the machinery company S.A. McLernon Inc. from 1995 to 2007. He later worked as a consultant and a director for an airline catering business.^{[citation needed]} He received 3,460 votes (7.04%) in 2004, finishing third againstBloc Québécois incumbentMario Laframboise.^[2] After the election, he was president of the Conservative Party riding association inVaudreuil—Soulanges.^[3]

In 2009, McArthur was hired as special assistant toChuck Strahl, the federalMinister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was promoted to chief of staff in August 2010, whenJohn Duncan was appointed as Strahl's successor.^{[citation needed]}

Peter Stastny is a businessman fromSutton Township, Quebec. A former co-owner of the Emporium store inKnowlton, he has also managed the Mont Glenski resort and been president of the Brome LakeChamber of Commerce.^[4] Before running for federal office, he promoted a tourist train project in Brome—Missisquoi.^[5] He was the mayor of Sutton Township from 1993 to 1997 and supported a merger with the neighbouring town ofSutton. In the1997 municipal election, he lost to an anti-merger candidate.^[6] TheQuebec government forced the two communities to merge in 2002.^[7]

Stastny was aLiberal until 2004, when he joined the Conservatives to run as the party's candidate in Brome—Missisquoi.^[8] Ironically, he was still on the Liberal Party's membership list when the election took place.^[9] He was fifty years old at the time and was chair of the Eastern Townships Community Economic Development and Employability Committee.^[10] During the election, he proposed to eliminate campaign signs on ecological grounds.^[11] Considered a strong candidate for the Conservatives in Quebec, he received 4,888 votes (11.05%) for a third-place finish against Liberal incumbentDenis Paradis.^[12]

Stastny's family is ofSlovakian origin, and he is a distant relative of the former hockey player and current member of the European Parliament namedPeter Stastny.^[13]

Daniel-A. Proulx has a diploma in administration from theUniversity of Montreal. He was an administrator from 1999 to 2003 and later started a computer concepts firm. He has also been president of the MetropolitanSorel-Tracy Chamber of Industry and Commerce.^[14] During the 2004 election, he acknowledged that the Conservative Party had only a minimal presence in his riding.^[15] He received 3,726 votes (7.65%), finishing third againstBloc Québécois incumbentLouis Plamondon.

Sulakhan Singh (Sam) Hundal (born 1940) holds aBachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Teaching degree fromPunjab University, a Commonwealth graduate's teaching certificate from the School of Education at theUniversity of Leicester, and aMaster of Arts degree inpolitical science from theUniversity of Windsor. He works as a real-estate agent and language interpreter. Hundal has been involved in severalBrampton community organizations since moving to the city in the mid-1970s, and participated in the 1996 Team Mission trade mission to South Asia.^[16] He received aGovernor General's 125th Commemorative Canada Medal in 1992, and was granted an Outstanding Contribution Recognition Certificate from thepremier of Ontario in 1994.^[17]

Hundal campaigned for the Brampton City Council in 1982, but was defeated.^[18] He was originally a member of theLiberal Party, and in 1990 challenged sittingMember of Provincial Parliament (MPP)Carman McClelland for theOntario Liberal Party nomination inBrampton North.^[19] Hundal charged that McClelland was ignoring the concerns of Brampton'sSikh community. McClelland denied this, and noted that over 550 party members from Brampton North's Sikh community supported his renomination. McClelland won the challenge, 1,002 votes to 827, in a contest that was marked by open hostility between the candidates.^[20]

Hundal later ran for theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada inBrampton Centre in the1997 federal election, and finished third againstLiberal candidateSarkis Assadourian. He was chosen as the Conservative Party's candidate in 2004 after it was discovered that Gurjit Grewal, the party's original nominee, had faced an assault charge in the early 1990s.^[21] He received 11,182 votes (27.53%), finishing second against Liberal candidateRuby Dhalla.

Greg Martin is a professional firefighter.^[22] As of 2010, he had served twenty-five years withToronto Fire Services and held the rank of captain.^[23] He was a member of theBrantford city council from 2000 to 2010, representing the third ward.

After a failed bid in1997, Martin was elected to council at age forty in the2000 municipal election, defeating formermayorBob Taylor for the ward's second seat.^[24] He was re-elected in2003 and2006, but lost in2010. Martin became vice-chair of the health board in 2002 and later chaired the corporate services committee and theWayne Gretzky Sports Centre expansion work group.^[25] He attempted to replaceMarguerite Ceschi-Smith as chair of the city'sbrownfield committee in 2004, but was defeated.^[26]

Generally, Martin was known as afiscal conservative.^[27] He was the only councillor to vote against a twenty-year downtown revitalization plan in 2002, saying that the region had already received too much money.^[28] He was also the only councillor to vote against sending a trade delegation toItaly in 2005, and the following year he was one of two councillors to vote against continuing a grant toLaurier Brantford.^[29] Martin sat on the Finance Committee for most of his time on Brantford City Council and as Chair, ushered in a service review program for city departments. He was successful in getting council to agree to a set time hiring freeze of municipal employees to help minimize property tax increases. He was also a proponent of intensive line-by-line study of operational and capital budgets during annual budget deliberations by council.

Martin served a one-year term as president of Brant'sReform Party of Canada association in the 1990s.^[30] He opposed the party'sUnited Alternative initiative in 1999, but nonetheless joined the resultantCanadian Alliance party in 2000.^[31] The Alliance merged with theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the Conservative Party in 2003, and Martin joined the new party. He was neutral in its2004 leadership election.^[32] Martin also served on the executive of the localProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario association and chaired the group Taxpayers Coalition Brant.^[33] He frequently wrote letters to theBrantford Expositor before his election to council, advocating conservative policies.^[34]

Martin called for referendums onabortion and thedeath penalty as part of his platform for the 2004 Federal election.^[32] He received 17,792 votes (33.10%), finishing second againstLiberal candidateLloyd St. Amand.^[2] He sought the Conservative nomination again for the2006 federal election, but lost toPhil McColeman.^[35]

Tanz is a graduate of York Mills Collegiate, attended theUniversity of California, and is areal estate developer in private life. He joined theProgressive Conservative Party in 1994, and joined the Conservative Party after its merger with theCanadian Alliance.^[36] Tanz campaigned for a seat on theEast York municipal council in1994 at age 37, calling for greater cooperation between the public and private sectors.^[37] He was narrowly defeated for the second position by Tim Cholvat.

In 1999, the Ontario government ofMike Harris sold a prime downtown Toronto property unit at half of its market value to All-City Storage, aCalifornia-based firm on which Tanz served as a director. The sale was subsequently the subject of an investigation byThe Globe and Mail newspaper. Tanz described himself as an inactive director, and said that he knew nothing about the situation.^[38]

Tanz finished second againstJoe Volpe in 2004. He unsuccessfully campaigned to succeedJane Pitfield as the representative for Toronto's 26th ward in the2006 municipal election.^[39]

O'Connor is an educational assistant, and was 58 years old in 2004 (Hamilton Spectator, 21 June 2004). He is aFirst Nations Canadian, and has campaigned in support of native issues and concerns.

He was originally a member of theLiberal Party, and worked withSheila Copps in several campaigns. He left the Liberals to join theCanadian Alliance in 2000, claiming that the Liberal Party had become arrogant in office (Canadian Press, 2 June 2000). O'Connor campaigned for the Alliance in the 2000 campaign. On one occasion, he was targeted by threatening fax sent to his home address comparing his party to theNazis and leaderStockwell Day toAdolf Hitler (Spectator, 20 November 2000).

O'Connor later sought theProgressive Conservative nomination forHamilton West in the2003 provincial election, losing toDoug Brown (Spectator, 22 February 2003).

The Canadian Alliance merged with the federalProgressive Conservative Party in early 2004 to create the Conservative Party of Canada. O'Connor supported the new party, and ran as its candidate in Hamilton Centre. He also registered for a municipal by-election in Hamilton's second ward in 2004, but withdrew before nominations closed (Spectator, 26 August 2004).

O'Connor is a moderate on some social issues, and ispro-choice onabortion (Spectator, 8 June 2004). He campaigned for the Conservative nomination in Hamilton Centre for the2006 election, but lost to Eliot Hill (Spectator, 13 May 2005).

MacLean received 12,582 votes (23.12%), finishing second againstLiberal incumbentPeter Milliken.

DeFaria was theConservative Party of Canada candidate for the riding ofMississauga East—Cooksville in the2004 Canadian federal election. DeFeria also ran in the2000 Canadian federal election in the riding ofMississauga East for theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada finishing a close third behindJainstien Dookie of theCanadian Alliance and the winnerAlbina Guarnieri of theLiberal Party of Canada.

Mike Dupont is a businessman and professional photographer in theSudbury area. He was employed in mining from 1977 to 1987, when he started his own photography firm. He has chaired the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce, and was appointed to the city's police services board in 2004.^[40]

Dupont was a member of theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada before 2003, when he supported the party's merger with theCanadian Alliance to create theConservative Party of Canada. He originally sought the Conservative nomination for theSudbury riding in the 2004 election, but lost to Stephen L. Butcher.^[41] He later won the party nomination in Nickel Belt.^[42] He finished third againstRay Bonin, and commented that the riding's labour base made it impossible for the Conservatives to win.^[43]

Dupont won a community enhancement award later in 2004.^[44] He ran for the Greater Sudbury Municipal Council in the2006 election, but was defeated.

Keith C. Montgomery was born inGravenhurst. He has aBachelor of Arts degree in Economics (1978), worked as a real-estate broker inMuskoka for fourteen years, and became a financial consultant with theInvestors Group in 1996.^[45] He is a member of theUnited Church of Canada.^[46]

A longtime member of theProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Montgomery wasPremierFrank Miller's campaign manager in the1985 provincial election.^[47] He first ran for public office in the2000 federal election as a candidate of theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada. When the federal Progressive Conservatives later merged with the more right-wingCanadian Alliance in 2003, Montgomery joined the resultant Conservative Party of Canada.

Montgomergy finished second against federalcabinet ministerAndy Mitchell in 2004. He sought the Conservative Party nomination again for the2006 federal election, but lost toTony Clement.^[48]

He was appointed to a seven-year term on theCompetition Tribunal of Canada on November 5, 2009.^[45]

James Jackson worked in real estate and real estate development, and owned a bed and breakfast inPeterborough. He served as director of the Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation and Peterborough and the Kawarthas Tourism.^[49] He supportedSylvia Sutherland's 2003 campaign for re-election as mayor of Peterborough.^[50]

Jackson planned to run for theCanadian Alliance nomination in the buildup to the 2004 election before that party merged with theProgressive Conservatives to create the Conservative Party.^[51] He supported the merger and eventually defeated two other candidates to win the Conservative nomination.^[52] He expressed somesocially conservative views in this period, saying that he wasanti-abortion and opposedsame-sex marriage.^[53] He supportedStephen Harper in the2004 Conservative leadership contest.^[54]

He was fifty-six years old at the time of the 2004 election.^[55] He received 18,393 votes (31.92%) on election day, finishing second againstLiberal incumbentPeter Adams. Jackson sought the Conservative nomination again in the buildup to the2006 federal election, but narrowly lost toDean Del Mastro.^[56] There were rumours that Jackson would run for mayor of Peterborough in the2006 municipal elections, but he ultimately did not do so.^[57]Jackson suffered a fatal heart attack in 2011.

Bonomi was born inSt. Catharines. He holds aBachelor of Arts degree inhistory andPolitical Science from theUniversity of Western Ontario, and has taken business and commerce training at theUniversity of Windsor. He works as an investment advisor in the Niagara region forBMO Nesbitt Burns, and has been a member of theKnights of Columbus for over thirty-five years. Bonomi was 53 years old in 2004.^[58]

Bonomi defeated Cam Leach to win the Conservative nomination for St. Catharines. The Conservative Party targeted the riding, and Bonomi was favoured by some to win. Instead, he finished second againstLiberal incumbentWalt Lastewka with 18,261 votes (34.71%).

Jewell was born in 1962, and has aBachelor of Arts degree inpsychology fromYork University. At the time of the election, she was head of the Condition of Broadcast License Closed-Captioning Department at Alliance Atlantis Communications.^[59] Her campaign website featured four-minutepower ballad campaign anthem, composed by Rob Wells. The song included the lines, "Scarborough Southwest/is entitled to the very best/an inspired member of Parliament/who will champion our interests/and uphold our aspirations/in the nation's capital.... Oh you know it's Heather Jewell" (National Post, 23 June 2004).

Jewell received 9,028 votes (23.78%), finishing second againstLiberal incumbentTom Wappel.

Josh Cooper was theConservative Party of Canada candidate forMember of Parliament in 2004 representingThornhill, Ontario.

He had won the nomination for theCanadian Alliance. After the merger of the Alliance and theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada, he was renominated.

Cooper is the executive director of theCJPAC. He is also owner of Par Golf Camp, and involved with theUJA Federation. He lost the election to Liberal candidateSusan Kadis by over 10,000 votes.

Cuddy holdsBachelor of Arts andBachelor of Laws degrees from theUniversity of Toronto. He worked in defence insurance litigation for a year after his graduation, but switched to the plaintiff's side. For fifteen years before the 2004 election, he operated a practice inToronto representing the interests ofworking-class people. He often workedpro bono in cases relating to social policy issues. Cuddy has been active in organizations such as the Royal Canadian Legion, the Holocaust Education Week Committee, and the Toronto Youth Symphony.^[60] He was baptized as John Cuddy, but changed his name at age thirteen after becoming inspired by the writings of his great-great-grandfather, a Toronto minister.

Cuddy is the older brother ofJim Cuddy, the guitarist and vocalist of the rock groupBlue Rodeo. His brother declined to endorse Loftus's campaign. This was not based on personal animosity, but because the younger Cuddy considered the Conservative Party to be too far to the right (The Globe and Mail, 26 May 2004).

Loftus Cuddy was on the left-wing of his party, and endorsedsame-sex marriage during the 2004 election.^[61] He received 2,975 votes (6.21%), finishing third againstNew Democratic Party leaderJack Layton.

MacNeil was born inAntigonish,Nova Scotia. He has abachelor's degree inbusiness administration fromSt. Francis Xavier University, and aMaster of Business Administration degree from theUniversity of Bradford. He is a banker, and has served as an assistant to theminister of international trade.^[62] He moved toOshawa in 1998, and was thirty-six years old at the time of the election (Toronto Star, 29 June 2004).

Whitby—Oshawa was a targeted seat for the Conservatives, but MacNeil was nonetheless defeated byLiberal incumbentJudi Longfield. He received 20,531 votes (36.06%).

Katz was born inWindsor,Ontario, and was 32 years old at the time of the election. He studied economics at theUniversity of Windsor, although he began working as apit boss atCasino Windsor before completing his degree. He has also worked as a hotel chef (Windsor Star, 25 May 2004), and is active with the Windsor Jewish Federation and theCanada Israel Committee.^[63] He won the Conservative nomination over Greg Novini in late March 2004 (Windsor Star, 1–2 April 2004).

AWindsor Star poll taken during the campaign showed Katz with a narrow lead overNew Democratic Party incumbentBrian Masse, although the reliability of the poll was disputed (5 & 11 June 2004). A subsequent poll showed him in third place (Windsor Star, 12 June 2004). Katz finished third against Masse with 8,348 votes (18.91%).

Katz isJewish, and may have been the victim ofanti-semitic vandalism during the campaign when some of his signs were spray-painted withswastikas. It is not clear if the vandalism was directed against Katz on a personal level or against the Conservative Party (signs belonging to Conservative candidate Rick Fuschi, who is not Jewish, were similarly defaced in a neighbouring riding. (Windsor Star, 15 June 2004).

Archer was born in 1957 inSaskatchewan and attendedWinnipeg Bible College in the 1970s. He received aBachelor of Laws degree from theUniversity of Manitoba in 1991, and became a partner with the Archer & Phillips Law Office in 1993.^[64]

Archer volunteered forProgressive Conservative candidate Cecil Thorne for the1999 provincial election in the northern election division ofThompson,^[65] and was himself was the party's candidate in2003. He worked as his own campaign manager, and campaigned against the taxation rates charged by local school boards.

McLeod received 7,644 votes (26.11%), finishing second againstNew Democratic Party incumbentBill Blaikie.

Stevenson was born to aPeguis Nation family inSteelier,Manitoba, was raised inSelkirk and now lives inWinnipeg. He has extensive experience working in aboriginal youth programs. Stevenson was employed with theDepartment of Indian and Northern Affairs as a Communications Assistant at the time of the election, and has worked related organizations such as Shabbiest Waking Aboriginal Head Start and the Manitoba Child and Family Services.^[66] He has also been an athlete and coach in north Winnipeg, and was working toward a degree in education at theUniversity of Winnipeg at the time of the election.^[67]

Stevenson was one of three aboriginal candidates to run for the Conservative Party in the 2004 election (National Post, 15 July 2004). He received 3,186 votes (12.27%), finishing third againstNew Democratic Party incumbentJudy Wasylycia-Leis.

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