honourable the John Harvard , C.P., O.M. (born on June 4th, 1938 with Glenboro, with the Manitoba) is a journalist and Canadian politician (Manitoba in). It sat like Député with the House of Commons of Canada of 1988 with 2004 and is currently Lieutenant-governor of Manitoba; it was named at this station little before the Canadian federal election of 2004.

Biography

Harvard is telejournalist of 1957 with 1988. He works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during 18 years and is the organizer of a very popular radio program with Winnipeg. (By sheer coincidence, its predecessor at the post of lieutenant-guverneur, Peter Mr. Liba, were journalist for a candidate of the CBC, CanWest).

Harvard is elected appointed with the House of Commons for the first time at the time of the federal election of 1988, under the banner of the Liberal party; it gains the victory vis-a-vis the deputy outgoing progressist-conservative George Minakar with 18.695 votes against 16.993 in the district of Winnipeg— St James (at the time of the preceding election, the liberal candidate had been classified in third position). Harvard sits on the back bench of the opposition of 1988 to 1993.

The Liberal party gains the victory at the time of the election of 1993; Harvard is easily re-elected in Winnipeg— St James, demolishing his nearer rival, the reformist Peter Blumenschein, by nearly 13.000 votes. It is not named at the Council of Ministers, but in 1996 he becomes parliamentary secretary of the public Minister for Labor and governmental services.

Harvard is again re-elected without difficulty at the time of the election of 1997, being presented in the lately redécoupée district of Charleswood— Assiniboine. Following the election, it is named parliamentary secretary of the Minister for Agriculture and agroalimentary, station which it preserves until in 1998.

Harvard knows its electoral battle tightest at the time of the election of 2000, gaining its rival of the Canadian Alliance, Cyril McFate, with 13.901 votes against 11.569, a margin of 2332 votes. The progressist-conservative Curtis Moore finishes third with 9.991 votes; several consider that the district would be seizable if the parties of the right-hand side were plain. (Indeed, at the time of the election of 2004, shortly after the resignation of Harvard, the district is gained by Steven Fletcher under the banner of new the Conservative party of Canada).

Harvard was a long time a partisan of Paul Martin to the direction of the Liberal party, and it could be that it is the reason why it named forever with the the Council of Ministers of Jean Chrétien. At the beginning of 2000, Harvard suggests publicly that Chrétien should resign of the direction of the party. When Martin becomes Prime Minister the December 12th 2003, Harvard is sworn in with the private Conseil as a parliamentary secretary of the Minister for the International business.

Harvard leaves its seat with the communes the May 6th 2004. Rumors circulate wanting that it was under the pressure of the mayor of Winnipeg, Glen Murray, which sought a district in the area of Winnipeg in order to be presented under the banner of the Liberal party for the election to come. The next day, it is announced that Harvard would be named Lieutenant-governor of Manitoba; it is sworn in at this station on June 30th. (The station of Lieutenant-governor is especially ceremonial, and Harvard does not have any real influence on the government of Manitoba.)

In October 2005, Harvard receives off a diploma of Doctor Laws honoris causa of the Université of Manitoba.

Source

External bond

• Official site of the lieutenant-governor of Manitoba

• federal political Experiment — Library of the Parliament