Dane Lloyd
Dane Lloyd is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on October 23, 2017, following the resignation of Rona Ambrose. Lloyd represents the constituency of Parkland as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Lloyd continues to serve as a Canadian Army reservist in the Governor General's Foot Guards located in Ottawa. As of 2024 he held a commission as an infantry officer with the rank of captain.
Early life
Lloyd was born in St. Albert, Alberta, and raised outside Spruce Grove, Alberta, where his family farms. He attended and graduated from Edmonton Christian High School in 2009. In 2014, he graduated from Trinity Western University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science. While completing his undergraduate studies, Lloyd was elected vice president of Academic Affairs for the Trinity Western University Student Association. He attended the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa, and served as President of the Trinity Western Model United Nations Society.Career
Lloyd began his political career as an intern serving in the office of MP Brent Rathgeber in 2009. The following year he served in the office of Tony Clement then Minister of Industry. His final internship in the fall of 2011 through the Laurentian Leadership Centre was in the office of Jason Kenney when he served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. In 2013 before completing his degree Lloyd moved from Alberta to Ottawa and served as a special assistant to then Minister of International Trade. After the 2015 election Lloyd accepted a position as parliamentary advisor to St. Albert—Edmonton MP Michael Cooper. In early 2016, Lloyd accepted a commission as an infantry officer in the Governor General's Foot Guards.Political career
After he won the by-election in Sturgeon River—Parkland in the fall of 2017, Lloyd served on several Parliamentary Committees including the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology; the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic; and the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs. Lloyd currently serves on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National SecurityIn 2020, Conservative leader Erin O'Toole appointed Lloyd as Shadow Minister for Digital Government. Following the 2021 election Lloyd was appointed as Shadow Minister for Emergency Preparedness.
On 25 February 2022 interim leader Candice Bergen re-named Lloyd to shadow the Minister of Emergency Preparedness.
On October 12, 2022, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre re-appointed Lloyd to the position of Shadow Minister of Emergency Preparedness, a position he holds to this day.
Federal ridings in Alberta were redistributed prior to the 2025 federal election, and Lloyd was re-elected to parliament in the newly created Parkland riding.
Legislative initiatives
During his nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada in 2017, Lloyd proposed introducing McCanns' Law in honour of St. Albert residents Lyle and Marie McCann who went missing in July 2010 on a road trip from their home town to Chilliwack, British Columbia. Their charred motor home was discovered a few days later, resulting in a search that led to the arrest of Travis Vader for their murder. While Vader was still unwilling to assist authorities in locating the McCanns’ remains he will be eligible for parole in 2021. This was the catalyst for Lloyd's commitment, in the 2017 Sturgeon River-Parkland Conservative Nomination, to introduce a Private Member's Bill that would help families recover the remains of their loved ones. The McCann's oldest son, Bret McCann, worked with Lloyd in drafting of the bill after he was elected.In March 2019, Lloyd introduced Private Member's Bill C-437, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act, also known as McCanns’ Law. If passed, willingness to assist authorities to locate the remains of the victim would be a consideration for parole eligibility for someone convicted in the death of a person. According to Lloyd "the hope is not to necessarily punish people more, but to give them incentive to cooperate, to give relevant information on the location of the bodies and then enable the families to have the closure of a funeral."
''Emergencies Act'' investigation
In the wake of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest and crackdown, the SECU committee held a number of investigatory meetings. Lloyd attracted attention when he "grilled" interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell over the conduct of his force during the event. Lloyd was persistent on the question "about whether loaded firearms were found in protesters' vehicles", to which Bell answered "there have been no charges laid to date in relation to weapons at the occupation site." Lloyd then accused a Toronto Star journalist, Justin Ling, and Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Marc Miller of spreading misinformation.On 13 April 2022 Lloyd returned to this subject when pressed by the Western Standard:
On 19 May 2022 Lloyd asked Minister for Public Safety Marco Mendicino about the need for the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Mendicino said he "stands by previous statements that the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on the recommendation of law enforcement officials." The "previous statements" were in witness testimony that Mendicino made at a committee hearing in April, to wit that the government "invoked the act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement that the existing authorities were ineffective at the time to restore public safety."