Minister of State (Transport) Rob Merrifield of Canada
Merrifield was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000, was re-elected in 2004 and 2006, and is Co-Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group.
Merrifield said his party sees much merit in the ABC awareness program (Abstinence, Be faithful, Condom use.
It didnt seem to matter that Merrifield was not proposing legislation that would make counseling mandatory.
Minister of State (Transport)Yellowhead (Alberta)Rob Merrifield was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000 and re-elected in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Rob Merrifield said he thought mandatory counselling would be "valuable" for women who are considering terminating their pregnancies.
Ezra Levant, a former Canadian Alliance Partystaffer who is now the publisher of the Western Standard magazine, argued on Countdownthat all Merrifield said was that "it might be valuable to have some counselling for someone who's getting an abortion.
When the dust, or whatever the equivalent of dust in the middle of an Alberta winter is, had settled that time around Merrifield had accumulated a comfortable 30,640 votes.
If the answer to both of those is no, and just to be clear I should point out that it is, then Merrifield remains absolutely untouchable in what would be one of the safest seats in the country if it wasn’t for all the other Conservative seats in Alberta that are just as safe.
Merrifield was born in Mayerthorpe, AB and raised on a dairy farm just outside of Whitecourt.
Some of the issues Merrifield has worked on include criminal justice reforms, the softwood lumber agreement, pine beetle issues and Canada-US.
Merrifield said that with the allowance of the creation of human life for experimentation Canada has made an "important and disserving ethical shift in this nation.
Rob Merrifield was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000 and was re-elected in 2004 and 2006 as the Member of Parliament for Yellowhead.
Rob Merrifield was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000 and re-elected in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
Merrifield has co-chaired the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group and has previously served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Standing Committee on Health.
example, was a provincial matter, he said.
position in response to one of the paper's own reporter's questions.
Rob Merrifield is a familiar face in the Yellowhead area since he has been representing the riding since 2000.
In this election, Merrifield said he feels the main issue will come down to which party leader is going to best run the country, especially through such an economically sensitive time.
Merrifield said Conservative leader Stephen Harper is the best man to lead Canadians to success.
Recently, Merrifield said he was looking over a campaign pamphlet from the last federal election, held in 2006, where the Conservatives made many promises.