Bernard Lord
 Bernard Lord    (businessman, politician) | |
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| Born | September 27, 1965 Roberval, Quebec |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Université de Moncton |
| Spouse | Diane Haché |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
Attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting as an up-and-coming Canadian politician amid speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics.
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Bernard Lord is a Canadian lawyer, business executive and former politician. He was the 30th premier of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006.[1]
He attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting as an up-and-coming politician amid speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics.
Education
Lord was raised in a bilingual household in Moncton, New Brunswick, where he spent his early life.[2]
After graduating from high school, he received a bachelor's degree in social science with a major in economics, as well as a bachelor's degree in common law, from the Université de Moncton. Lord married his wife Diane in 1990; they have two children.[2] One of his brothers, Roger Lord, is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist.
Political career
In 1997, Lord was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of New Brunswick and then became a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a 1998 by-election. Much of Lord's success came from the countless months he spent meeting party members across New Brunswick, and in part because he was also flawlessly bilingual and able to draw a strong concentration of support in the Moncton area, one of four cities in which members could vote.
On June 7, 1999, Lord's PC party overcame an early deficit in the polls to pull out a landslide victory in the provincial general election, winning 44 of 55 seats in the legislature. At just 33 years of age, Lord became one of the youngest Premiers in Canadian history.
Using the successful tactics from the 1994 United States elections of Republican Congressional leader, Newt Gingrich, Lord was elected on his "200 Days of Change" platform, consisting of 20 promises of things he would do within the first 200 days of his mandate if he were elected premier.
In 2002, Lord delivered what the media and others hailed as an electrifying speech at the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada convention in Edmonton, Alberta, which started speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics, specifically, replacing Joe Clark as federal PC leader. A very strong movement of influential conservatives erupted after Edmonton to lobby the Premier into federal politics, everything from a website to a coast to coast organization[3] was being set up to woo the Premier to leave Fredericton and head to Ottawa.[4] A short time later, Lord shot down any notions that that might happen, choosing instead to remain focused on provincial politics.
Lord was again courted for federal politics in late 2003, when the PC Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged into the Conservative Party of Canada. In the end, Lord opted to stay in New Brunswick.
In 2004, Lord's government came under fire over a variety of unpopular stances, most notably changes to health care. These included closures of beds at hospitals and consolidation of four hospitals into one
On August 10, 2006, Lord announced that on August 19, he would be calling an election for September 18. In the head-to-head campaign that followed, Lord lost the government to the Liberals, who took 29 seats to 26 for the Conservatives. Lord left the Premier's Office on October 3, 2006. On December 13, 2006, Lord announced that he was resigning as Progressive Conservative Party leader, further he said he would resign his legislative seat on January 31, 2007.[5]
Post-premiership
After leaving politics, Lord took a position as senior counsel with the law firm McCarthy Tetrault, splitting time between their offices in Montreal and Ottawa while continuing to maintain his residence in Fredericton.
On December 3, 2007, Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, appointed Lord as head of the Bilingualism Committee. He reviewed Canada's Official Language Laws, and he made suggestions where improvements can be made.[6]
In October 2008, it was announced that Lord would be appointed as president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, a lobbyist group that represents cellular, messaging, mobile radio, fixed wireless and mobile satellite carriers, as well as companies that develop and produce products and services for the industry.[7]
Lord was named in 2013 to the board of Ontario's public utility provider, Ontario Power Generation.[1]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2001 | 24 May 2001 | 27 May 2001 | Sweden Stenungsund | The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW. |
References
- ↑ a b https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/03/07/former_nb_premier_bernard_lord_named_opg_chair.html
- ↑ a b Trichur, Rita (December 22, 2012). "A wireless speaker with a political calling", The Globe and Mail, p. B3.
- ↑ Shawn Berry, "Tory Youth leader in P.E.I. backs Lord for federal leadership". NB Telegraph-Journal, A1, September 9th 2002
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/rightfightbernar0000poit
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/lord-quits-as-pc-leader-resigns-seat-1.594738
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071205131837/http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=1923
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090524194236/http://www.cwta.ca/CWTASite/english/whatsnew_download/oct24_08.html
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