# Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election

This is a list of nominated candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 40th Canadian federal election. The party nominated 307 out of a possible 308 candidates, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier was the only riding not to field a Conservative candidate.

## Newfoundland and Labrador - 7 seats

| Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Gender | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Avalon | Fabian Manning | incumbent MP | M | St. Bride's | Parliamentarian | 11,542 | 35.2% | 2nd |
| Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor | Andrew House | | M | Gander | Lawyer | 4,354 | 15.2% | 2nd |
| Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte | Lorne Robinson | | M | Pasadena | Financial Planner | 2,799 | 10.6% | 3rd |
| Labrador | Lacey Lewis | | F | Ottawa | Office Assistant | 615 | 8.0% | 3rd |
| Random—Burin—St. George's | Herb Davis | | M | Gatineau | Policy Advisor | 4,791 | 20.5% | 3rd |
| St. John's East | Craig Westcott | | M | Conception Bay South | Journalist | 3,836 | 9.3% | 3rd |
| St. John's South—Mount Pearl | Merv Wiseman | | M | North Harbour | Maritime Search & Rescue Coordinator | 4,324 | 12.6% | 3rd |

## Prince Edward Island - 4 seats

| Riding | Candidate | Notes | Gender | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Cardigan | Sid McMullin | | M | Georgetown | Human Resource Officer | 5,661 | 29.6% | 2nd |
| Charlottetown | Thomas L. DeBlois | | M | Charlottetown | Business Manager | 5,704 | 32.1% | 2nd |
| Egmont | Gail Shea | Former Provincial MLA | F | Tignish | Former Civil Servant | 8,110 | 43.9% | 1st |
| Malpeque | Mary Crane | | F | Kensington | Educator | 7,388 | 39.3% | 2nd |

## Nova Scotia - 11 seats
### Cape Breton—Canso

Allan R. Murphy

### Central Nova

Peter MacKay, incumbent MP and Minister of National Defence

### Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley

Joel Bernard

### Dartmouth—Cole Harbour

Wanda Webber

### Halifax

Ted Larsen

### Halifax West

Rakesh Khosla

### Kings—Hants

Rosemary Segado

### Sackville—Eastern Shore

David K. Montgomery

### South Shore—St. Margaret's

Gerald Keddy, incumbent MP

### Sydney—Victoria

Kristen Rudderham

### West Nova

Greg Kerr

## New Brunswick - 10 seats
### Acadie—Bathurst

Jean-Guy Dubé

### Beauséjour

Omer Léger, former provincial cabinet minister under Richard Hatfield

### Fredericton

Keith Ashfield, former provincial cabinet minister under Bernard Lord

### Fundy Royal

Rob Moore - Incumbent MP

### Madawaska—Restigouche

Jean-Pierre Ouellet former provincial cabinet minister under Richard Hatfield

### Miramichi

Tilly Gordon

### Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe

Daniel Allain, CEO of Downtown Moncton Centre-Ville.

### New Brunswick Southwest

Greg Thompson - Incumbent MP and Minister of Veteran Affairs

### Saint John

Rodney Weston, former provincial cabinet minister under Bernard Lord

### Tobique—Mactaquac

Mike Allen - Incumbent MP

## Quebec - 75 seats

| Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Gender | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour | Réjean Bériault | Bériault was born in March 1961 in Lachine. He holds a diploma in public administration from HEC Montréal, a certificate in law from the University of Montreal, and a Bachelor's Degree in legal sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal. | M | | 8,904 | 18.15 | 2nd |
| Brome—Missisquoi | Mark Quinlan | Quinlan was born in Cowansville. He has bachelor's degrees in civil law and finance and a graduate diploma from Université de Sherbrooke in notarial law. He joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000, ran for the party in that year's federal election, and was later employed by the party as a press secretary. A Stockwell Day loyalist, he was dismissed from office when Stephen Harper succeeded Day as party leader in March 2002. After the Conservatives formed a minority government in 2006, he was hired as a press secretary for Justice Minister Vic Toews, and later followed Toews to a new posting at the Treasury Board of Canada. He became the press secretary for Christian Paradis later in the same year and continued to serve with Paradis after the 2008 election. Quinlan's mother, Pauline Quinlan, is the mayor of Bromont. | M | | 9,309 | 18.66 | 3rd |
| Outremont | Lulzim Laloshi | Laloshi was thirty-two years old at the time of the election and was described as the leader of Quebec's Albanian Community in Montreal. | M | Computer Specialist | 3,820 | 10.53 | 4th |
| Shefford | Jean Lambert | Lambert was born and raised in Granby and has worked in public relations and advertising in Granby, Montreal, and Quebec City. He was at one time a vice-president of Groupaction and testified before the Gomery Commission on the firm's activities. | M | | 9,927 | 19.63 | 3rd |

### Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou

Jean-Maurice Matte Abitibi

### Abitibi—Témiscamingue

Pierre Grandmaitre

### Ahuntsic

Jean Précourt

### Alfred-Pellan

Alexandre Salameh

### Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel

Scott Pearce

### Beauce

Maxime Bernier, incumbent MP.

### Beauharnois—Salaberry

Dominique Bellemare

### Beauport—Limoilou

Sylvie Boucher

### Berthier—Maskinongé

Marie-Claude Godue

### Bourassa

Michelle Allaire

### Brossard—La Prairie

Maurice Brossard

### Chambly—Borduas

Suzanne Chartand

### Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles

Daniel Petit, incumbent MP.

### Châteauguay—Saint-Constant

Pierre-Paul Routhier

### Chicoutimi—Le Fjord

Jean-Guy Maltais

### Compton—Stanstead

Michel Gagné

### Drummond

André Komlosy

### Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Darryl Gray

### Gatineau

Denis Tassé

### Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia

Jérôme Landry

### Hochelaga

Luc Labbé

### Honoré-Mercier

Rodrigo Alfaro

### Hull—Aylmer

Paul Fréchette

### Joliette

Sylvie Lavallée

### Jonquière—Alma

Jean-Pierre Blackburn, incumbent MP and Minister of Labour

### La Pointe-de-l'Île

Hubert Pichet

### Lac-Saint-Louis

Andrea Paine

### LaSalle—Émard

Béatrice Guay-Pepper

### Laurentides—Labelle

Guy Joncas

### Laval

Jean-Pierre Bélisle

### Laval—Les Îles

Agop Evereklian

### Lévis—Bellechasse

Steven Blaney

### Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher

Jacques Bouchard

### Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

Jacques Gourde

### Louis-Hébert

Luc Harvey

### Louis-Saint-Laurent

Josée Verner

### Manicouagan

Pierre Breton

### Marc-Aurèle-Fortin

Claude Moreau

### Mégantic—L'Érable

Christian Paradis

### Montcalm

Claude Marc Boudreau

### Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup

Denis Laflamme

### Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord

Guy-Léonard Tremblay

### Mount Royal

Rafael Tzoubari

### Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine

Carmine Pontillo

### Papineau

Mustague Sarker

### Pierrefonds—Dollard

Pierre-Olivier Brunelle

### Pontiac

Lawrence Cannon, incumbent MP.

### Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier

No Candidate

### Québec

Myriam Taschereau

### Repentigny

Bruno Royer

### Richmond—Arthabaska

Éric Lefebvre

### Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

Gaston Noël

### Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

Claude Carignan

### Rivière-du-Nord

Gilles Duguay

### Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

Denis Lebel

### Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Sylvie Boulianne

### Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert

Nicole Charbonneau Barron

### Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot

René Vincelette

### Saint-Jean

Marie-Josée Mercier

### Saint-Lambert

Patrick Clune

### Saint-Laurent—Cartierville

Dennis Galiatsatos

### Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel

Lucie Le Tourneau

### Saint-Maurice—Champlain

Stéphane Roof

### Sherbrooke

André Bachand

### Terrebonne—Blainville

Daniel Lebel

### Trois-Rivières

Claude Durand

### Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Michael Fortier, Minister of Public Works

### Verchères—Les Patriotes

Benoît Dussault

### Westmount—Ville-Marie

Guy Dufort

## Ontario - 106 seats
### Ajax—Pickering

Rick Johnson

### Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing

Dianne Musgrove

### Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale

David Sweet

### Barrie

Patrick Brown

### Beaches—East York

Caroline Alleslev

### Bramalea—Gore—Malton

Stella Ambler

### Brampton—Springdale

Parm Gill

### Brampton West

Kyle Seeback

### Brant

Phil McColeman

### Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound

Larry Miller

### Burlington

Mike Wallace

### Cambridge

Gary Goodyear

### Carleton—Mississippi Mills

Gordon O'Connor, incumbent MP and Minister of National Revenue.

### Chatham-Kent—Essex

Dave Van Kesteren

### Davenport

Theresa Rodriguez

### Don Valley East

Eugene McDermott

### Don Valley West

John Carmichael

### Dufferin—Caledon

David Tilson

### Durham

Bev Oda, incumbent MP.

### Eglinton—Lawrence

Joe Oliver

### Elgin—Middlesex—London

Joe Preston

### Essex

Jeff Watson

### Etobicoke Centre

Axel Kuhn

### Etobicoke—Lakeshore

Patrick Boyer

### Etobicoke North

Bob Saroya

### Glengarry—Prescott—Russell

Pierre Lemieux

### Guelph

Gloria Kovach

### Haldimand—Norfolk

Diane Finley, incumbent MP and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

### Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock

Barry Devolin

### Halton

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### Hamilton Centre

Leon O'Connor

### Hamilton East—Stoney Creek

Frank Rukavina

### Hamilton Mountain

Terry Anderson

### Huron—Bruce

Ben Lobb

### Kenora

Greg Rickford

### Kingston and the Islands

Brian Abrams

### Kitchener Centre

Stephen Bonner

### Kitchener—Conestoga

Harold Albrecht

### Kitchener—Waterloo

Peter Braid

### Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Bev Shipley

### Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington

Scott Reid

### Leeds—Grenville

Gord Brown

### London—Fanshawe

Mary Lou Ambrogio

### London North Centre

Paul Van Meerbergen

### London West

Ed Holder

### Markham—Unionville

Duncan Fletcher

### Mississauga—Brampton South

Salma Ataullahjan is a current Canadian Senator appointed on July 9, 2010.

### Mississauga East—Cooksville

Melissa Bhagat

### Mississauga—Erindale

Bob Dechert

### Mississauga South

Hugh Arrison

### Mississauga—Streetsville

Wajid Khan, incumbent MP.

### Nepean—Carleton

Pierre Poilievre

### Newmarket—Aurora

Lois Brown

### Niagara Falls

Rob Nicholson, incumbent MP and Minister of Justice.

### Niagara West—Glanbrook

Dean Allison, incumbent MP.

### Nickel Belt

Ian McCracken

### Nipissing—Timiskaming

Joe Sinicrope

### Northumberland—Quinte West

Rick Norlock

### Oak Ridges—Markham

Paul Calandra

### Oakville

Terence Young

### Oshawa

Colin Carrie

### Ottawa Centre

Brian McGarry

### Ottawa—Orléans

Royal Galipeau

### Ottawa South

Elie Salibi

### Ottawa—Vanier

Patrick Glémaud

### Ottawa West—Nepean

John Baird, incumbent MP and Minister of the Environment.

### Oxford

Dave MacKenzie

### Parkdale—High Park

Jilian Saweczko

### Parry Sound-Muskoka

Tony Clement, incumbent MP and Minister of Health.

### Perth Wellington

Gary Schellenberger, incumbent MP

### Peterborough

Dean Del Mastro, incumbent MP

### Pickering—Scarborough East

George Khouri

### Prince Edward—Hastings

Daryl Kramp, incumbent MP

### Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke

Cheryl Gallant, incumbent MP.

### Richmond Hill

Chungsen Leung

### St. Catharines

Rick Dykstra, incumbent MP

### St. Paul's

Heather Jewell

### Sarnia—Lambton

Pat Davidson, incumbent MP

### Sault Ste. Marie

Cameron Ross

### Scarborough—Agincourt

Benson Lau

### Scarborough Centre

Roxanne James

### Scarborough-Guildwood

Chuck Konkel

### Scarborough—Rouge River

Jerry Bance

### Scarborough Southwest

Greg Crompton

### Simcoe—Grey

Helena Guergis, incumbent MP

### Simcoe North

Bruce Stanton, incumbent MP

### Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

Guy Lauzon

### Sudbury: Gerry Labelle

Gerry Labelle was born in Mattawa and raised in Sudbury. He is a businessperson and community activist in Sudbury, where he operates a consulting firm. Labelle is a founding member of Music and Film in Motion and has served on the board of several non-profit organizations. At the time of the election, he was a member of the Make Poverty History committee on the city's Social Planning Council.
Labelle became involved in a minor controversy during the 2008 campaign when he made statements in a French-language interview that seemed critical of the Conservative government. According to a press release from Liberal incumbent Diane Marleau, Labelle criticized Finance Minister Jim Flaherty for describing Ontario as "the last place" to invest, took issue with the government's decision to abolish the Court Challenges Program of Canada, and said that he was not impressed with the Conservative Party's environmental record. He later issued a retraction, saying that he had not expressed himself clearly and was fully supportive of the Harper government. Labelle also spoke in support of the arts community and rejected arguments that his party was hostile to the arts. Late in the campaign, the Sudbury Star newspaper noted that he "did not come across as a Harper Conservative".
Labelle received 11,073 votes (25.79%), finishing third against New Democratic Party candidate Glenn Thibeault. He has said that he will probably run for Conservatives again.

### Thornhill

Peter Kent

### Thunder Bay—Rainy River

Richard Neumann

### Thunder Bay—Superior North

Bev Sarafin

### Timmins-James Bay

Bill Greenberg

### Toronto Centre

David Gentili

### Toronto—Danforth

Christina Perreault

### Trinity—Spadina

Christine McGirr

### Vaughan

Richard Lorello

### Welland

Alf Kiers

### Wellington—Halton Hills

Michael Chong, incumbent MP.

### Whitby—Oshawa

Jim Flaherty, incumbent MP and Minister of Finance.

### Willowdale

Jake Karns

### Windsor—Tecumseh

Denise Ghanam

### Windsor West

Lisa Lumley

### York Centre

Rochelle Wilner

### York—Simcoe

Peter Van Loan, incumbent MP.

### York South—Weston

Aydin Cocelli

### York West

Kevin Nguyen

## Manitoba - 14 seats
### Brandon—Souris

Merv Tweed, incumbent MP.

### Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia

Steven Fletcher, incumbent MP.

### Churchill

Wally Daudrich

### Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette

Inky Mark, incumbent MP.

### Elmwood—Transcona

Thomas Steen

### Kildonan—St. Paul

Joy Smith, incumbent MP.

### Portage—Lisgar

Candice Hoeppner

### Provencher

Vic Toews, incumbent MP.

### Saint Boniface

Shelly Glover

### Selkirk—Interlake

James Bezan, incumbent MP.

### Winnipeg Centre

Kenny Daodu

### Winnipeg North

Ray Larkin

### Winnipeg South

Rod Bruinooge, incumbent MP.

### Winnipeg South Centre

Trevor Kennerd

## Saskatchewan - 14 seats
### Battlefords—Lloydminster

Gerry Ritz, incumbent MP and Minister of Agriculture.

### Blackstrap

Lynne Yelich, incumbent MP.

### Cypress Hills—Grasslands

David L. Anderson, incumbent MP.

### Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River

Rob Clarke, incumbent MP.

### Palliser

Ray Boughen

### Prince Albert

Randy Hoback

### Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre

Tom Lukiwski, incumbent MP.

### Regina—Qu'Appelle

Andrew Scheer, incumbent MP.

### Saskatoon—Humboldt

Brad Trost, incumbent MP.

### Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar

Kelly Block

### Saskatoon—Wanuskewin

Maurice Vellacott, incumbent MP.

### Souris—Moose Mountain

Ed Komarnicki, incumbent MP.

### Wascana

Michelle Hunter

### Yorkton—Melville

Garry Breitkreuz, incumbent MP.

## Alberta - 28 seats
### Calgary Centre

Lee Richardson, incumbent MP.

### Calgary Centre-North

Jim Prentice, incumbent MP.

### Calgary East

Deepak Obhrai, incumbent MP.

### Calgary Northeast

Devinder Shory

### Calgary—Nose Hill

Diane Ablonczy, incumbent MP.

### Calgary Southeast

Jason Kenney, incumbent MP.

### Calgary Southwest

Stephen Harper, incumbent MP and Prime Minister of Canada.

### Calgary West

Rob Anders, incumbent MP.

### Crowfoot

Kevin Sorenson, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton Centre

Laurie Hawn, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton East

Peter Goldring, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton—Leduc

James Rajotte, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont

Mike Lake, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton—St. Albert

Brent Rathgeber, former MLA for Edmonton-Calder.

### Edmonton—Sherwood Park

Tim Uppal

### Edmonton—Spruce Grove

Rona Ambrose, incumbent MP.

### Edmonton—Strathcona

Rahim Jaffer, incumbent MP.

### Fort McMurray—Athabasca

Brian Jean, incumbent MP.

### Lethbridge

Rick Casson, incumbent MP.

### Macleod

Ted Menzies, incumbent MP.

### Medicine Hat

LaVar Payne

### Peace River

Chris Warkentin, incumbent MP.

### Red Deer

Earl Dreeshen

### Vegreville—Wainwright

Leon Benoit, incumbent MP.

### Westlock—St. Paul

Brian Storseth, incumbent MP.

### Wetaskiwin

Blaine Calkins, incumbent MP.

### Wild Rose

Blake Richards

### Yellowhead

Rob Merrifield, incumbent MP.

## British Columbia - 36 seats
### Abbotsford

Ed Fast, incumbent MP since 2006.

### British Columbia Southern Interior

Rob Zandee

### Burnaby—Douglas

Ronald Leung

### Burnaby—New Westminster

Sam Rakhra

### Cariboo—Prince George

Dick Harris, incumbent MP.

### Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon

Chuck Strahl, incumbent MP and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

### Delta—Richmond East

John Cummins, incumbent MP.

### Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca

Troy DeSouza

### Fleetwood—Port Kells

Nina Grewal, incumbent MP.

### Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo

Cathy McLeod

### Kelowna—Lake Country

Ron Cannan, incumbent MP.

### Kootenay—Columbia

Jim Abbott, incumbent MP.

### Langley

Mark Warawa, incumbent MP since 2004 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment.

### Nanaimo—Alberni

James Lunney

### Nanaimo—Cowichan

Reed Elley

### Newton—North Delta

Sandeep Pandher

### New Westminster—Coquitlam

Yonah Martin

### North Vancouver

Andrew Saxton

### Okanagan—Coquihalla

Stockwell Day, incumbent MP and Minister for Public Safety.

### Okanagan—Shuswap

Colin Mayes, incumbent MP.

### Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission

Randy Kamp, incumbent MP.

### Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

James Moore, incumbent MP.

### Prince George—Peace River

Jay Hill, incumbent MP.

### Richmond

Alice Wong

### Saanich—Gulf Islands

Gary Lunn, incumbent MP and Minister of Natural Resources.

### Skeena—Bulkley Valley

Sharon Smith

### South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale

Russ Hiebert, incumbent MP.

### Surrey North

Dona Cadman

### Vancouver Centre

Lorne Mayencourt

### Vancouver East

Ryan Warawa

### Vancouver Island North

John Duncan

### Vancouver Kingsway

Salomon Rayek

### Vancouver Quadra

Deborah Meredith

### Vancouver South

Wai Young

### Victoria

Jack McClintock

### West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country

John Weston

## Yukon - 1 seat
### Yukon

Darrell Pasloski

## Northwest Territories - 1 seat
### Western Arctic

Brendan Bell

## Nunavut - 1 seat
### Nunavut

Leona Aglukkaq, MLA for Nattilik and Health Minister for the Government of Nunavut