Preston Manning

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Ernest Preston Manning (born June 10, 1942) is a Canadian politician who founded the Reform Party of Canada. Manning led the Reform Party from 1987 to 2000 and served as the leader of the Official Opposition from 1997 to 2000. Manning was the member of Parliament (MP) for Calgary Southwest from 1993 to 2002, and saw the Reform Party evolve into the Canadian Alliance in 2000, which in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. Manning is the son of former Social Credit Premier of Alberta Ernest Manning. Earning a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1964, Manning rose to prominence in 1987, when he and an alliance of associates created the Reform Party, an anti-establishment right-wing populist party that won its first seat in 1989 and had a regionalist, Western Canadian base. Shortly after that, the party rapidly gained momentum in the 1993 Canadian federal election, where it won 52 seats. In the 1997 federal election, support...

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