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Preston Manning

Ernest Preston Manning, PC CC AOE (born June 10, 1942) is an Alberta based conservative Canadian politician. He was a founder and the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance which it in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada. Manning represented the federal constituency of Calgary Southwest in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 until his retirement in 2002. He served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 1997 to 2000. Upon his retirement he has founded the Manning Foundation for Democratic Education and the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, not-for-profit organizations dedicated to strengthening Canadian democracy in accordance with conservative principles.

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There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

Community, Electing, Given, Hiring, Member, Members Of Parliament

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Careers, Christian, Father, Long, Political

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

Attractive, Canada, Enough, Include, Quebec

Why not learn from the positive aspect of Canadian populism, which is the way to deal with it? Learn from the negative side, but it's more important to learn from the positive side, because it's an enormous amount of energy.

Canadian, Energy, Enormous, Important, Negative

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

East, Jobs, Junk, Scrap, Sugarman

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Disturbs, Matter, Policy, Speaker, Superficiality, Suspicion

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

Farm, Father, Listening, School, Training

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Decision, Electorate, Leader, Political, Public

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Culture, Government, Neutral, Roles, Toward

I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.

Class, Fault, Immigration, Real, Refugee, Thinking

Where you find all the worries about immigration, I think the way to handle that is to listen to the person that's got concerns, and then try to move that in a positive direction, as opposed to decrying it and saying, 'Don't even raise that, you can't raise that. '

Direction, Immigration, Moving, Opposed, Thinking, Worry

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

Beach, Fall, Foundation, Moving, Redondo

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Negative, Newsworthy, Positive

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Ahead, Canada, Like, Looks, Revolutionary

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Canada, Country, Relentless, Rodents

The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

Consensus, Debate, Doors, People, Top, Top Down

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

Aggravated, Conditions, Economic, People

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

Black, Country, Hole, Political, Remember

The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.

Acts, Goes On, Immediate, Impact, Quickly, Sacrifice

In many respects, my best friends were dogs.

Dog, Dogs, Friends, My Best Friend, Respects

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