Stockwell Day
Stockwell Burt Day , PC (born August 16, 1950 in Barrie, Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian politician .
biography
Day began his political career in 1986 with the first election to the legislative assembly of Alberta , in which he represented the interests of the constituency of Red Deer as a member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta until 2000 .
In the governments of Prime Minister Ralph Klein provided by the progressive conservatives , he held numerous offices such as Minister of Labor from 1992 to 1994 and Minister of Social Services from 1996 to 1997, until he was finally Treasurer from March 1997 to 2000 as such, enjoyed a multi-billion Canadian dollar budget surplus during an economic boom in the oil and gas-rich province .
On July 8, 2000, he was elected chairman of the newly formed right-wing party Canadian Alliance selected. After being at a by-election (by-election) in the constituency Okonagan-Coquihalla was elected with more than 70 percent of the vote, he was on 19 September 2000 as a member of the House sworn in and shortly after leaders of the opposition .
A proposals submitted by the Canadian Alliance proposal that a referendum should allow when 3 percent of eligible voters a corresponding petition should sign, the famous prompted satirical television program "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" by Rick Mercer in the television station CBC Television to launch a petition by the Days first name Stockwell should be changed to Doris . More than a million people signed the petition on the show's website , exceeding the 3 percent hurdle by far.
Internal party disputes within the Canadian Alliance prompted Day in July 2001 to call for a new election for the party chairmanship for March 2002. On December 12, 2001, however, he resigned prematurely as party chairman and was replaced by John Douglas Reynolds , who took over the office ad interim. Day ran again as party chairman at the party conference in March 2002, but was defeated by Stephen Harper . After the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003, he joined them and continues to represent the constituency of Okonagan-Coquihalla in the lower house as their candidate .
After Harper became Prime Minister of Canada on February 6, 2006 , Day was appointed Minister of Public Safety by him. After a cabinet reshuffle after the general election on October 14, 2008 , he became Minister of International Trade. Since another government reshuffle on January 19, 2010, he is now President of the Treasury Board.
Stockwell Day announced his retirement from politics on March 13, 2011 for reasons that are not entirely clear. He resigned from his position as head of the Treasury and also gave up his mandate for the Conservatives. He then took over a position in the economy. From 2011 he worked for Telus . There he had to resign in 2020 in connection with protests following the death of George Floyd under public pressure.
Web links
- Stockwell Day - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
- Entry on rulers.org
- John Ivison: Stockwell Day deserves to be remembered ( November 10, 2014 memento in the archive.today web archive ): Stockwell Day deserves to be remembered , National Post, March 13, 2011.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Day, Stockwell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Day, Stockwell Burt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barrie (Ontario) , Canada |