Derrek P. Konrad (born 12 December 1943 in

Brooks, Alberta Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada in the County of Newell. It is on Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an e ...

) was a member of the

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from 1997 to 2000. He was elected to the

for the Prince Albert electoral district in the 1997 federal election. He was a member of the Reform party, later renamed the

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. After serving in the 36th Canadian Parliament, he left federal politics after losing the riding's Canadian Alliance nomination to Brian Fitzpatrick for the 2000 federal election. One of the characteristics of his term was his adamant opposition to migration rights for First Nations People. He is quoted in ''Major Problems in American Indian History'' as having said "I can't for the life of me understand why they would need a special border crossing, unless they're beginning to see themselves as people with no border"Eileen Luna Firebaugh, 2015, ''Major Problems in American Indian History'', page 553.

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* 1943 births Canadian Alliance MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan People from Brooks, Alberta Reform Party of Canada MPs 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Saskatchewan-MP-stub