Alison Redford
 Alison Redford    (politician, lawyer) | ||||||||||
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| Born | Alison Merrilla Redford March 7, 1965 Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada | |||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| Children | 1 | |||||||||
| Spouse | • Glen Jermyn • Robert Hawkes | |||||||||
| Party | Progressive Conservative | |||||||||
Attended the 2012 Bilderberg as Premier of Alberta
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Alison Merrilla Redford is a Canadian lawyer and former politician. She was premier of Alberta from October 2011, to March 2014. She attended the 2012 Bilderberg meeting.
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Career
Federal politics
In the 1980s Redford worked as Senior Policy Advisor to former Prime Minister Joe Clark, who was the Secretary of State for External Affairs. She went on to work in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada from 1988 to 1990, under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.[1] In this capacity, Redford organized a series of national foreign policy consultations facilitating public[dubious] input on the Government of Canada's White Papers on Foreign Affairs and Defence. In the Canadian Parliament, she was also the Principal Legislative Advisor to the Secretary of State for External Affairs.[2]
International work
Throughout the 1990s, Redford worked as a technical adviser on constitutional and legal changes in various parts of Africa for the European Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Canadian Government and the Government of Australia.[3] One of Redford's most notable appointments was by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as one of the four International Election Commissioners to administer Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections, held in September 2005. She also was an adviser to the Privy Council Office on Canada's future involvement in Afghanistan subsequent to the elections. Her work has included assignments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the Philippines. Redford managed a judicial training and legal reform project for the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme People's Court in Vietnam.[3]
Alberta politics
In the 2008 provincial election, Redford was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). She sat in the cabinet of Ed Stelmach as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General. Redford became premier upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, and on April 23, 2012, she led her party to victory in the 2012 provincial election.[4] Of the Alberta premiers, her term in office was the shortest.[5]
On March 19, 2014, Redford announced that she would resign as premier of Alberta effective March 23, 2014.[6] She was succeeded by deputy premier Dave Hancock on an interim basis.[7] She announced her resignation as an MLA on August 6, 2014.[8]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2012 | 31 May 2012 | 3 June 2012 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2012 | 21 November 2012 | 23 November 2012 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
References
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/profile-alison-redford-alberta-premier-1.1006393
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120125131224/http://alberta.ca/premier_bio.cfm
- ↑ a b https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&rnumber=08
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111104211708/http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/10/02/meet-your-new-premier%7Carchive-date=November 4, 2011
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140331052523/http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/iphone/news/latest/story.html?id=9641581
- ↑ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/alberta-premier-redford-to-make-important-announcement-amid-attacks-on-her-leadership/article17581814/
- ↑ https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/20/alison_redford_to_be_replaced_by_alberta_deputy_premier_dave_hancock.html
- ↑ http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/former-premier-alison-redford-resigns-as-mla-for-calgary-elbow-1.1947879
