Candice Bergen (politician)

**Candice Marie Bergen**  (born September 28, 1964) is a Canadian politician. She was the interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition from February 2, 2022 to September 10, 2022. Bergen was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition under Erin O'Toole from September 2020 to February 2022. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portage—Lisgar in Manitoba since 2008.

She was Minister of State for Social Development during the Stephen Harper government. She also was the Opposition House Leader under Rona Ambrose and Andrew Scheer opposition governments from 2016 until 2020.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable
- **name**: Candice Bergen
- **image**: Candice Bergen - 2017 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Bergen in 2017
- **monarch**: Elizabeth II
Charles III
- **primeminister**: Justin Trudeau
- **office**: Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada), Leader of the Opposition
- **term start**: February 2, 2022
- **term end**: September 10, 2022
- **predecessor**: Erin O'Toole
- **successor**: Pierre Poilievre
- **office1**: Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
- **status1**: Interim
- **president1**: Robert Batherson
- **term start1**: February 2, 2022
- **term end1**: September 10, 2022
- **predecessor1**: Erin O'Toole
- **successor1**: Pierre Poilievre
- **office2**: Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada), Deputy Leader of the Opposition
- **term start2**: September 2, 2020
- **term end2**: February 2, 2022
- **leader2**: Erin O'Toole
- **predecessor2**: Leona Alleslev
- **successor2**: Luc Berthold
- **office3**: Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
- **term start3**: September 2, 2020
- **term end3**: February 2, 2022
- **leader3**: Erin O'Toole
- **president3**: Scott Lamb (lawyer), Scott Lamb
- **predecessor3**: Leona Alleslev
- **office4**: Opposition House Leader
- **term start4**: September 15, 2016
- **term end4**: September 2, 2020
- **leader4**: Rona Ambrose
Andrew Scheer
- **predecessor4**: Andrew Scheer
- **successor4**: Gérard Deltell
- **office5**: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 42nd Parliament of Canada, Shadow Minister of Natural Resources
- **1blankname5**: Shadowing
- **1namedata5**: Jim Carr
- **leader5**: Rona Ambrose
- **term start5**: November 20, 2015
- **term end5**: September 14, 2016
- **predecessor5**: Guy Caron
- **successor5**: Mark Strahl
- **office6**: Minister of State (Canada), Minister of State for Social Development
- **primeminister6**: Stephen Harper
- **term start6**: July 15, 2013
- **term end6**: November 4, 2015
- **predecessor6**: _Position established_
- **successor6**: Jean-Yves Duclos
- **office7**: Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety
- **primeminister7**: Stephen Harper
- **term start7**: May 25, 2011
- **term end7**: July 15, 2013
- **predecessor7**: Dave MacKenzie (politician), Dave MacKenzie
- **successor7**: Roxanne James
- **office8**: Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Chair of the Standing Committee on
Human Resources
- **minister8**: Diane Finley
- **term start8**: March 8, 2010
- **term end8**: June 20, 2011
- **predecessor8**: Dean Allison
- **successor8**: Ed Komarnicki
- **riding9**: Portage—Lisgar
- **parliament9**: Canadian
- **term start9**: October 14, 2008
- **predecessor9**: Brian Pallister
- **birth name**: Candice Marie Bergen
- **birth place**: Morden, Manitoba, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
- **children**: 3
- **party**: Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative