Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates in the 2004 Canadian federal election


The Christian Heritage Party is a minor political party in Canada. It ran 62 candidates in the 2004 federal election. Information about some of these candidates may be found here. The leader of the party at the time of the election was Ron Gray.

Quebec

[Argenteuil—Mirabel]: Laurent Filion

Laurent Filion is a construction contractor and real estate agent based in Duhamel, Quebec. He joined the Christian Heritage Party in 1995 and has run for the party three times; he appeared on the ballot as a non-affiliated candidate in 2000 because the party was not registered with Elections Canada. He was the Christian Heritage Party's only Quebec candidate in 2004.
Filion has also run for municipal council in Duhamel.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
1997 federalArgenteuil—PapineauChristian Heritage5050.976/6Maurice Dumas, Bloc Québécois
2000 federalArgenteuil—Papineau—MirabelN/A 1670.339/9Mario Laframboise, Bloc Québécois
2004 federalArgenteuil—MirabelChristian Heritage2020.416/7Mario Laframboise, Bloc Québécois
2009 municipalDuhamel council, Ward Onen/a12523.323/3Patrick Douglas

Ontario

Peter J. Ellis (Guelph">Guelph (federal electoral district)">Guelph)

received 634 votes, finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Brenda Chamberlain.

Stephen Downey (Hamilton Centre">Hamilton Centre (federal electoral district)">Hamilton Centre)

Downey received 520 votes, finishing fifth against New Democratic Party candidate David Christopherson. See his entry here for more information.

Terry Marshall (Kingston and the Islands">Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)">Kingston and the Islands)

See here for full information. Marshall has been a candidate for the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, having campaigned for the party four times.

Allan (Al) James (Lambton—Kent—Middlesex">Lambton—Kent—Middlesex (federal electoral district)">Lambton—Kent—Middlesex)

James is a chemical engineer. He was 43 years old in 2002, and was a Global manager for the Dow Automotive Group in Sarnia. He has campaigned for the CHP on three occasions.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
1988 federalKentChristian Heritage1,9424/4Rex Crawford, Liberal
federal by-election, May 13, 2002Windsor WestChristian Heritage2490.766/6Brian Masse, New Democratic Party
2004 federalLambton-Kent-MiddlesexChristian Heritage1,0155/5Rose-Marie Ur, Liberal

Linda Klassen (St. Catharines">St. Catharines (federal electoral district)">St. Catharines)

Klassen was born Linda Stacey. She moved from her home region of Simcoe County to the Niagara region in 1985, and was a Community Outreach Counsellor with the Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre, St. Catharines from 1989 to 2001. Before running for the CHP in 2004, she campaigned for the Family Coalition Party of Ontario in the 2003 provincial election.
Klassen has argued that the concept of "sexual orientation" has been fabricated by "deviants who wanted their unnatural sexual preferences dignified and legalized", and has written that Canadian society was better when homosexuality was "in the closet".
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2003 provincialSt. CatharinesFamily Coalition7141.625/5Jim Bradley, Liberal
2004 federalSt. CatharinesChristian Heritage7411.435/7Walt Lastewka, Liberal

Pat Woode (Wellington—Halton Hills">Wellington—Halton Hills (federal electoral district)">Wellington—Halton Hills)

Woode was born in 1946, near Woodstock, Ontario. She graduated in Social Work from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1968, and after a year she had graduated from the institute, she worked at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Toronto from 1969 to 1973. Woode wrote a column on disability issues in the Georgetown Herald from 1983 to 1988, hosted a show on Halton Cable TV for three years, and has been an environmental activist. She is affiliated with the Family Coalition Party of Ontario at the provincial level, and is an opponent of abortion and gay rights. She was 58 years old in 2004.
She received 826 votes, finishing fifth against Conservative candidate Michael Chong.

Manitoba

David C. Andres ([Dauphin—Swan River])

Andres was born on May 17, 1959, at Norquay, Saskatchewan, and moved with his family to Ethelbert, Manitoba, as a child. After completing high school, he worked with the Canadian National Railway in northern Manitoba before returning to Ethelbert to work as a mechanic and farmer. In 1979, he began "Andres Insurance Brokers" with his wife, and also started a Sears Canada Catalogue Order Office in the region.
The 2004 election was his first venture into electoral politics. He received 560 votes, or 1.68% of the total cast in the riding.

David J. Reimer ([Portage—Lisgar])

David J. Reimer received 1,458 votes, finishing fourth against Conservative candidate Brian Pallister.

Jeannine Moquin-Perry (St. Boniface">Saint Boniface—Saint Vital">St. Boniface)

Raised in Saskatchewan, Moquin-Perry subsequently moved to Manitoba to practice as a registered nurse. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Manitoba, as well as certificates in Teaching and Administration. During the 2004 election, she was a student of LAMBS Disciplineship Project, a religious institution. Along with her husband, she has also hosted a Home Church Fellowship for several years.
The 2004 election was Moquin-Perry's first as a candidate. She received 378 votes, finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Raymond Simard.

Jane MacDiarmid ([Winnipeg South])

MacDiarmid received 206 votes, finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock. Click here for more information.

Yukon

Geoffrey Capp (Yukon">Yukon (electoral district)">Yukon)

See here for more information. He has run for the CHP five times, as well as once in a territorial election.

Other candidates (detailed entry not prepared)

Colin George Atkins
Anthony Barendregt
Leslie Bartley
Timothy J. Bloedow
Durk Bruinsma
David W. Bylsma
Gary De Boer
Irma DeVries
Ken De Vries
Steven Elgersma
Frank Ellis
Ursula Ellis
Barra L. Gots
John G. Gots
Ron Gray, leader
Joseph F. Grubb
Vicki Gunn
Larry R. Heather
Gerhard Herwig
James "Jim" Hnatiuk
Jacques "Jack" Hummelman
Robert Thomas Jacobson
Dave Joslin
W. Baird Judson
Ryan Kidd
Gloria Kieler
Adrian Kooger
Harold J. Ludwig
Mary Sylvia Nelson
Joe Pal
Katherine Reimer
Irma Ruiter
Johannes Scheibler
Rob Scott
Edward Spronk
Diane Stephan
Harold Stephan
Jacob Strydhorst
Clayton A. Sundberg
Rod Taylor
Steven Taylor
Eric Truijen
William Ubbens
Ken Vanden Broek
Peter Vander Zaag
Peter Vogel
Frank Wagner
Maurice G. Whittle
Sally Wong
John H. Wubs
''Previous runs for a candidate were not necessarily in a riding of the same name.''