The short-lived Canada Party fielded a number of candidates in the

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, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.

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: George H. Armstrong

Armstrong, a journalist, received 82 votes (0.22%) for an eighth-place finish against Liberal candidate Glen McKinnon.

Provencher: Ted Bezan

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twice in the 1960s and 1970s. He criticized the major parties' focus on deficit reduction in the 1993 federal election, and instead called for the

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to issue interest-free loans to pay down the interest on Canada's national debt. In 1994, he argued that the

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's policy against headgear was not racist and should be left in place. Some

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groups had previously argued that the policy was exclusionary. The following year, Bezan complained that recent translations of the

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were removing vital passages. He has also called for the Bank of Canada to buy Canada's debt, or at least half of it, from its current owners.

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: Hans C. Kjear

Kjear, a farmer, received 83 votes (0.23%) for an eighth-place finish against Liberal candidate Jon Gerrard.

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: Bill Martens

Martens is a lawyer. He received 44 votes (0.08%), finishing ninth against Liberal candidate Reg Alcock.

Winnipeg—Transcona: Bill Tataryn

Tataryn was a retired

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. He received 39 votes (0.09%), finishing ninth against

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incumbent

Bill Blaikie William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie (June 19, 1951 – September 24, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2008, representing Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedent ridings in the House of Commons ...

. The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' newspaper printed an obituary notice for a "William Tataryn" in 1998, although it is not clear if this was the same person.Obituary notices, ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 21 November 1998, A2.

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