David W. Price,
PC (born 2 June 1945) is a
Canadian
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businessman and politician. Price was a member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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from 1997 to 2004, serving in the
36th and
37th Canadian Parliament
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s.
Biography
Born in
Sherbrooke
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,
Quebec
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, Price ran his own electrical company before being elected
mayor
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of
Lennoxville, Quebec
Lennoxville () is an ''arrondissement'', or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke.
Lenn ...
in 1994. He served as mayor until he resigned to run in
federal politics
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in 1997.
He was elected in the
Compton—Stanstead
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It was created in 1996 from Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead and Richmond—Wolfe ridings.
Geograp ...
electoral district
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for the
Progressive Conservative Party in the
1997 federal election.
After switching allegiance to the
Liberal Party
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, he was re-elected in the
2000 general election. He was defeated in the following
election in 2004 by
France Bonsant of the
Bloc Québécois
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. Price attempted to re-enter Parliament, again as a Liberal, but was again defeated by Bonsant in the
2006 election.
In the
Quebec municipal elections on 1 November 2009, Price was elected president of the Lennoxville borough of Sherbrooke.
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1945 births
Canadian electricians
Living people
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Anglophone Quebec people
21st-century mayors of places in Quebec
20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
Sherbrooke city councillors
Sherbrooke Hussars
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