Earl Dreeshen
Earl Dreeshen | |
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.jpg) Earl Dreeshen in 2016 | |
| Member of Parliament for Red Deer—Mountain View Red Deer (2008-2015) | |
| In office October 14, 2008 – March 23, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Mills |
| Succeeded by | Riding dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 9, 1953 |
| Party | Conservative |
| Relations | Devin Dreeshen (son) |
| Profession | Farmer |
Earl Dreeshen (born July 9, 1953) is a Canadian politician, who served as a Member of Parliament with the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2025.
Political career
[edit]Dreeshen was initially elected to represent the electoral district of Red Deer in the 2008 Canadian federal election, and re-elected with an increased majority in 2011. Red Deer was split almost in half ahead of the 2015 election, and Dreeshen opted to run in Red Deer—Mountain View—essentially the southern half of his old riding.
On January 21, 2025, he announced he would stand down at the 2025 Canadian federal election.[1]
Abortion
[edit]Dreeshen opposes abortion. Dreeshen supported a motion to examine whether a fetus is a human being, which was defeated in the House of Commons in a vote of 203 to 91.[2][3]
Dreeshen voted in support of Bill C-233 - An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion), which making it a criminal offence for a medical practitioner to knowingly perform an abortion solely on the grounds of the child's genetic sex.[4]
Conversion therapy
[edit]On June 22, 2021, Dreeshen was one of 63 MPs to vote against Bill C-6, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy), which was passed by majority vote, making certain aspects of conversion therapy a crime, including "causing a child to undergo conversion therapy."[5]
Personal life
[edit]Prior to becoming an MP he was a farmer and a physics and math teacher. He and his wife still manage their family farm. His son Devin Dreeshen is the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, the current Alberta Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors (as of September 7, 2024), and a former Alberta Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.[6]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2019 Canadian federal election: Red Deer—Mountain View | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Earl Dreeshen | 54,765 | 80.34 | +6.00 | $61,955.02 | |||
| New Democratic | Logan Garbanewski | 4,946 | 7.26 | –1.16 | $4,683.86 | |||
| Liberal | Gary Tremblay | 3,795 | 5.57 | –7.86 | $2,038.71 | |||
| People's | Paul Mitchell | 2,637 | 3.87 | – | $15,053.69 | |||
| Green | Conner Borlé | 2,026 | 2.97 | +0.37 | $87.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 68,169 | 99.59 | – | $114,110.55 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 278 | 0.41 | +0.19 | |||||
| Turnout | 68,447 | 75.33 | +4.74 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 90,857 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +6.93 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Red Deer-Mountain View | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Earl Dreeshen | 46,245 | 74.3 | -5.07 | – | |||
| Liberal | Chandra Lescia Kastern | 8,356 | 13.4 | +9.86 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Paul Harris | 5,233 | 8.4 | -3.51 | – | |||
| Green | Simon Oleny | 1,621 | 2.6 | -2.44 | – | |||
| Libertarian | James Walper | 445 | 0.7 | – | – | |||
| Pirate | Scott Milne | 312 | 0.5 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 62,212 | 100.0 | $223,075.30 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 135 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 62,347 | 71.8 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,737 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -7.47 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Red Deer | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Earl Dreeshen | 37,959 | 75.93 | +2.70 | $63,247 | |||
| New Democratic | Stuart Somerville | 7,566 | 15.13 | +4.03 | $1 | |||
| Green | Mason Sisson | 2,551 | 5.10 | -4.24 | ||||
| Liberal | Andrew Lineker | 1,918 | 3.84 | -2.47 | $3,784 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 49,994 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 119 | 0.24 | -0.02 | |||||
| Turnout | 50,113 | 54.01 | +4.14 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 92,792 | – | – | |||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election: Red Deer | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Earl Dreeshen | 33,226 | 73.23 | -2.51 | $53,804 | |||
| New Democratic | Stuart Somerville | 5,040 | 11.10 | +1.17 | $1,774 | |||
| Green | Evan Bedford | 4,239 | 9.34 | +4.18 | ||||
| Liberal | Garfield Marks | 2,863 | 6.31 | -2.84 | $7,450 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 45,368 | 100.00 | $92,848 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 118 | 0.26 | +0.04 | |||||
| Turnout | 45,486 | 49.87 | -14.86 | |||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Red Deer-Mountain View MP Earl Dreeshen won't run for re-election". Red Deer Advocate. Black Press Media. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- ↑ Advocate Staff (October 10, 2012). "MP backed fetus bid, says constituents agree". Red Deer Advocate. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ↑ Kirkup, Kristy (September 27, 2012). "Abortion motion defeated: How did Alberta MPs vote?". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ↑ House of Commons (June 2, 2021). "2nd reading of Bill C-233, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion)". LEGISinfo. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ↑ House of Commons (June 22, 2021). "3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-6, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy)". LEGISinfo. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ↑ "Devin Dreeshen biography". Alberta.ca. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020.
- ↑ "Forty-Third General Election 2019 — Poll-by-poll Results: Red Deer—Mountain View". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2019.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2019). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2019 General Election: Part 3C – Summary of Electoral Campaign Expenses and Other Outflows – Election expenses subject to the limit – Total". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Red Deer—Mountain View, 30 September 2015
- ↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine