Ralph Ferguson

Ralph Ferguson PC (born September 13, 1929 in Mosa Township , Ontario ) is a Canadian farmer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the Lower House for several years and a short time Minister of Agriculture.

Life

Ferguson, who was a farmer by profession, was elected in the general election of February 18, 1980 as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the House of Representatives and represented the constituency of Lambton-Middlesex until he was defeated in the subsequent election on September 4, 1984 .

On March 4, 1980, he took over his first government office and was initially Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Small Enterprises and Tourism until February 28, 1982. He then served from December 7, 1983 to July 9, 1984 as Vice-Chairman of the Standing House Committee on Agriculture and was later from March 1 to June 29, 1984 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance.

Prime Minister John Turner appointed him on June 30, 1984 as Secretary of Agriculture in Canada's 23rd Cabinet , which he served until the end of Turner's brief tenure on September 16, 1984. In the general election of November 21, 1988 , he succeeded in returning to the lower house, where he again represented the constituency of Lambton-Middlesex . In the election on October 25, 1993 , he decided not to run again and left the House of Commons.

In the following years Ferguson took on several functions in the group of the Liberals and between February 1989 and March 1993 he was the opposition spokesman for agriculture and from February 1989 to September 1990 he was also the group spokesman for grain and oilseeds and then between September 1990 and September 1993 he was also deputy opposition spokesman for international trade.

Publications

• Compare the share, Phase I: Canadian farmers need a fair share of the consumer food dollar , Ottawa 1991
• Compare the share, Phase II: the comparisons continue , Ottawa 1992

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage