Twelve candidates of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada were elected in the 2000 federal election, making the party the fifth-largest in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
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Daniel Clark (Timmins—James Bay)
Daniel Clark is a Canadian politician and actor who has pursued a successful career in pharmaceuticals, working for both Pharmacia and Hoffmann-La Roche. He is currently upgrading his education at Dalhousie and is a member of the university's Board of Governors. Clark was not from Timmins and never set foot in the riding before one week into the election. He finished a distant fourth. Clark has been an active volunteer in politics and his community since the age of 12. His extensive election campaign work includes tour scheduling for Dr. John Hamm's campaign for the 1999 Nova Scotia election, which resulted in Dr. Hamm becoming Premier.
Louise Sankey (Eglinton—Lawrence)
A telecommunications expert, Sankey was forty-four years old at the time of the election. She campaigned on increasing health and defence spending, eliminating the capital gains tax and toughening the Young Offenders Act. She is disabled, and used a battery-run scooter to canvass the riding. She received 7,156 votes (17.26%), finishing second against Liberal incumbent Joseph Volpe. Sankey later became active with the Conservative Party, served as fundraising director for the Eglinton—Lawrence riding. In 2005, she spoke against adopting a policy to restrict abortion rights.
Bryan Brulotte (Lanark—Carleton)
Brulotte (born in Kingston, Ontario) was an officer in the Canadian military, serving as a peacekeeper and an aide-de-camp for Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn. After leaving active service, he earned an EMBA from the University of Ottawa and started MaxSys, a temporary help and contract professional services agency. He received the PC nomination in May 2000 (Ottawa Citizen, 24 October 2000), and campaigned on a platform of expanding Kanata's high-tech services to rural parts of the riding. Considered a star candidate, he was one of two Progressive Conservatives in the Ottawa area to be endorsed by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper (Ottawa Citizen, 22 November 2000).
Brulotte received 12,430 votes (19.61%), finishing third against Canadian Alliance candidate Scott Reid. In 2001, he was part of a six-member panel encouraging unity between the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives (National Post, 15 May 2001).
He planned to put his campaign organizer behind Bernard Lord in the Progressive Conservative Party's 2002 leadership contest, and was himself mentioned as a possible candidate when Lord declined to run (CanWest News, 23 October 2002). Brulotte is now a supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Derrall Bellaire (London-Fanshawe)
Bellaire later ran for the Progressive Canadian Party in the 2004 Canadian federal election.
Stephen Woollcombe (Ottawa—Vanier)
Woollcombe was raised in the Sandy Hill and New Edinburgh areas of Ottawa, and attended Ashbury College (founded by his grandfather). He holds a Master of Arts degree, taught English and Geography in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India from 1961 to 1963, and was a Canadian diplomat from 1965 to 1995 (Ottawa Citizen, 18 November 2000). He supported affordable housing and official bilingualism for Ottawa (Citizen, 24 November 2000). He received 7,400 votes (15.37%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent Mauril Belanger.
Woollcombe joined the Conservative Party of Canada after the Progressive Conservative Party's merger with the Canadian Alliance, and campaigned for the party's Ottawa—Vanier nomination for the 2004 election. He lost to Kevin Friday, by a vote of 90 to 53. , he sits on Ottawa's advisory committee on French language services.