The
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the
1980 federal election, and won 103 seats to form the
Official Opposition in the
Canadian House of Commons. The party had previously formed a
minority government after winning a plurality of seats in the
1979 election.
Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages. Information about others may be found here.
Jean Deschênes was the Progressive Conservative Party's candidate for Bellechasse in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections. He identified as a
civil servant.,
Parliament of Canada, accessed 15 April 2011. In 1992, an individual named Jean Deschênes was appointed to the Canadian consulate in
Seoul,
South Korea. This might have been the same person. See Frank Howard, "Economic Council refugees finding asylum,"
Ottawa Citizen, 24 July 1992, A4. He is not to be confused with another person of the same name who was a municipal politician in
Gatineau.
Pierre Gauthier identified as a lawyer. He received 2,972 votes (5.71%), finishing third against
Liberal incumbent
Monique Bégin.,
Parliament of Canada, accessed 23 April 2011.
Clarke has a degree in
Economics and
Political Science from the
University of Guelph. He was a real estate agent, and was president of the
York East Progressive...
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