Elmer Knutson

Elmer Stanley Knutson (An haife shi a ranar 30 ga Oktoba, 1914 - 9 ga Agusta, 2001) ɗan kasuwa ne na Kanada, mai fafutuka kuma ɗan siyasa. Knutson ya kasance mai goyon baya sosai na kirkirar yammacin Kanada mai zaman kanta, inda yamma za ta zama mai mulki daga gwamnatin tarayya ta Kanada. An yaba masa da "whip[ping] Yammacin Turai ya shiga cikin motsi na siyasa".

 Siyasa da gwagwarmaya 
Tare da zuwan Shirin Makamashi na Kasa na Kanada a cikin 1980, wanda ya ba gwamnatin tarayya ƙarin iko kan albarkatun mai da iskar gas a yammacin Kanada, ya kafa Tarayyar Yammacin Kanada (West-Fed),  wata kungiya mai zaman kanta don yaƙi da Jam'iyyar Liberal ta tarayya.  Knutson ya yi imanin cewa Dokar Westminster ta 1931, wacce ta ba da daidaito na majalisa tare da Ƙasar Ingila ga Kanada, ta kuma ba da ikon mallakar larduna, saboda larduna ba su sanya hannu kan haɗin kai ba. Masana tsarin mulki sun soki wannan ra'ayi.

Yawancin mambobin West-Fed sun bar kungiyar don shiga jam'iyyar Victoria-based Western Canada Concept (WCC) wacce, ba kamar West-Fet ba, ta gabatar da 'yan takara a zaben.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
An haifi Knutson a gonar iyali da ke Torquay, Saskatchewan. Ya yi aiki a ƙungiyoyin 'yan daba na hanya, a sansanonin katako da ma'adanai har sai da ya sami tallafin karatu na ƙwallon baseball a kwalejin Lutheran a North Dakota, Amurka. Bayan ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Royal Canadian a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya buɗe gareji a Saskatoon. Daga baya ya koma Edmonton don kafa kamfanin kera motocin tarakta nasa.[1] A shekarar 1969, ya kafa Derrick Dodge Chrysler, dillalin motoci, kuma ya gudanar da shi har zuwa 1976.

Knutson died at the age of 86 in Edmonton.[<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span>]

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