Preston Manning Quotes

Canada, Politician
June 10, 1942

Ernest Preston Manning, PC CC AOE (born June 10, 1942) is an Alberta-based conservative Canadian politician. He was a founder and the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance which in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada.

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

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What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

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I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

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- Die
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

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- Culture
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

Preston Manning
- Work
- Fall
- California