Profile: Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May is the current leader of the Green Party. She is also an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. Born on June 9, 1954, May had an interesting upbringing. "May was born in Hartford,...

Profile: Canadian Bloc Quebecois Party leader Gilles Duceppe

Gilles Duceppe is the leader of the Bloc Quebecois Party, and became the first federal member of parliament for the party in 1990, then the party leader in 1997."A Quebec separatist in Ottawa, Gilles Duceppe...

Profile: New Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Jack Layton

Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1950, New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton studied political science for years, becoming a professor while getting involved in public service. In 2003 he became leader of the new...

Profile: Canadian Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion

The Liberal party website has an in-depth biography of Stephane Dion's political history. Born in 1955, he became the leader of the Liberal party in 2006 and is the main opposition leader for the impending...

Profile: Canadian Conservative Leader and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the twenty-second Canadian PM, winning a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He was born in Toronto in 1959, moving to Alberta in '78. He studied at...

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