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 may 9 , 1977 2006 1991 the honourable john douglas reynolds
john reynolds -lrb- canadian politician -rrb-

john douglas reynolds , pc -lrb- born january 19 , 1942 -rrb- was the member of parliament for the riding of west vancouver -- sunshine coast -- sea to sky country in the house of commons of canada from 1997 to 2006 .
he had also been an mp in the 1970s as well as a provincial politician in british columbia in the 1980s and 1990s .
he was first elected to parliament as a candidate of the progressive conservatives in 1972 and was re-elected in 1974 .
he resigned in 1977 after disagreeing with joe clark 's red tory policies .
beginning in 1983 he was active in the social credit party of british columbia and served as speaker of the british columbia legislative assembly and as a cabinet minister .
in 1986 he was a candidate at the social credit leadership convention coming in fifth .
he remained in provincial politics until 1991 when he was defeated in his bid for re-election .
reynolds returned to parliament in 1997 as a reform mp and served as chief opposition whip .
he remained in this role when the reform party was folded into the canadian alliance .
when stockwell day faced a revolt in his caucus in 2001 and chuck strahl resigned as house leader , reynolds was named in his place .
when day resigned as alliance leader , reynolds was chosen as interim party leader and leader of the opposition and served until stephen harper was elected the new party leader .
reynolds resigned as house leader on january 24 , 2005 , but continued as mp for his riding until his retirement at the 2006 federal election .
he was the coordinator of the conservative campaign in british columbia .
on the day after the election , which resulted in a conservative minority government , harper asked reynolds to approach liberal minister david emerson about crossing the floor and serving as a minister in harper 's government .
emerson eventually accepted the offer , which triggered a firestorm of criticism .
however , reynolds , who had strongly criticized belinda stronach 's switch from the conservatives to the liberals , told a suburban vancouver newspaper that he was `` very happy '' that emerson was a conservative and claimed that the people of emerson 's left-leaning vancouver riding got the better end of the bargain .
`` instead of having someone in opposition , '' he said , `` they have someone who is a cabinet minister of a new government . ''
