Sinclair Stevens

**Sinclair McKnight Stevens** PC (Fabrairu 11, 1927 - Nuwamba 30, 2016) lauya ne na Kanada, ɗan kasuwa kuma ministan majalisa a gwamnatin Joe Clark . 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife shi a garin Esquesing (a yau wani ɓangare na Halton Hills, Ontario), ɗan na uku na baƙi na Arewacin Ireland Robert Murray Stevens da Anna Bailey McKnight . Daga baya iyalin suka koma kusa da Kleinburg, Ontario . 

Ya halarci Cibiyar Kwalejin Weston sannan daga baya, Jami'ar Yammacin Ontario, aji na 1950. Ya kasance mai aiki a cikin jaridar dalibai da kuma majalisar dokoki. Ya shiga Makarantar Shari'a ta Osgoode Hall, inda ya sadu da abokin karatunsa kuma matarsa ta gaba Noreen Mary Terese Charlebois . Noreen na ɗaya daga cikin mata biyar kawai a cikin aji. Sun kammala karatu a 1955 kuma sun yi aure a 1958. Daga kwanakinsa na jami'a har zuwa lokacin da ya bayyana, ya kasance mai ba da rahoto na ɗan lokaci ga Toronto Star .  Stevens ya yi magana da kamfanin lauya na Toronto Fraser & Beatty . Daga baya ya kafa kamfaninsa na Stevens, Hassard & Elliot .

## Farkon aiki
A shekara ta 1958, ci gabansa na farko, The Cardiff, yana kan hanya. Wannan ya biyo baya tare da wasu ayyukan ci gaba da yawa.

A shekara ta 1962, ya kafa York Trust and Savings Co. Tsohon Gwamnan Bankin Kanada James Coyne ya zama shugaban a 1963. Stevens yana da sha'awa a wasu ƙananan kamfanoni masu aminci. Abin mamaki ga lokacin, rassansa suna cikin yankunan ma'aikata da shagunan Loblaws, suna nuna lokutan sabis na tsawo. York Trust ya karu da sau hudu fiye da sauran kamfanonin amincewa.

## Dan majalisa
A shekara ta 1968, ya koma King Township, Ontario . An fara zabarsa a Majalisar Dokoki ta Kanada a Zaben tarayya na 1972 a matsayin memba na Progressive Conservative, inda ya kayar da ministan majalisar Liberal mai ci John Roberts a cikin hawa York - Simcoe . An sake zabarsa a shekara ta 1974. Lokacin da aka soke hawa a 1979, an zabi Stevens a cikin sabon hawa na York - Peel . Ya sake lashe, kuma an sake zabarsa a 1980, da 1984.

## Binciken shugabancin PC 1976
Stevens ya yi takara a matsayin dan takara a taron shugabancin Progressive Conservative na 1976. A lokacin, yana da kwarewar shekaru uku kawai a majalisa, amma biyar daga cikin sauran 'yan takara sun shiga majalisa a shekarar 1972. Ya kammala na bakwai (na 'yan takara goma sha ɗaya) a zaben farko kuma ya janye don goyon bayan wanda ya lashe Joe Clark. An ga wannan a matsayin wani abu mai ban mamaki, tunda an dauki Stevens a matsayin mai hannun dama, kuma Clark ya kasance mai matsakaici a bangaren hagu na jam'iyyar. Mulroney zai "yi tunani game da tafiyar Steven mai ban mamaki na shekaru masu zuwa, ba ya nuna cewa ya fahimci shi".

Stevens ya kasance babban mai kashe kuɗin kamfen (a $ 294,107), amma Mulroney, wanda bai samar da adadi ba, ana zaton ya wuce wannan adadin.

Stevens ya koma sananne a matsayin mai adawa da haɗuwa da Canadian Alliance da Progressive Conservatives a cikin Jam'iyyar Conservative ta Kanada. Stevens ya kaddamar da karar da ba ta yi nasara ba don ƙoƙarin toshe haɗin. Daga baya ya zama fitaccen memba na Jam'iyyar Progressive Canadian Party, wanda mambobin Progressive Conservative suka kafa wanda ba su gamsu da haɗuwa ba. A shekara ta 2007, bayan murabus din Tracy Parsons a matsayin shugaban jam'iyyar "sabon" jam'iyyar PC, Stevens ya gaji Parsons a matsayinsa na shugaban wucin gadi. Stevens ya kasance a wannan matsayi har zuwa mutuwarsa, shekaru tara bayan haka.

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