Dane Lloyd
Canadian politician
Dane Lloyd MP | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Sturgeon River—Parkland | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office October 23, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Rona Ambrose |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1991-02-16) February 16, 1991 (age 33) St. Albert, Alberta, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Raechel Lloyd |
| Residence(s) | Spruce Grove, Alberta |
| Alma mater | Trinity Western University (BA) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Canada |
| Branch/service | Canadian Army Reserve |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Unit | Governor General's Foot Guards |
Dane Lloyd MP (born February 16, 1991) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on October 23, 2017, following the resignation of Rona Ambrose.[1] Lloyd represents the constituency of Sturgeon River—Parkland as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Lloyd continues to serve as a Canadian Army reservist in the Governor General's Foot Guards located in Ottawa.[2] As of 2017 he held a commission as an infantry officer with the rank of lieutenant.[citation needed]
Early life
Lloyd was born in St. Albert, Alberta, and raised in Spruce Grove, Alberta.[3] He attended and graduated from Edmonton Christian High School in 2009. In 2014, he graduated from Trinity Western University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science.[4] While completing his undergraduate studies, Lloyd was elected vice president of Academic Affairs for the Trinity Western University Student Association. He attended the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa, and served as President of the Trinity Western Model United Nations Society.[4]
Career
Lloyd served as a special assistant to then Minister of International Trade (the Honourable Ed Fast) and then as an aide to Jason Kenney when he was a federal cabinet minister and later as parliamentary advisor to St. Albert—Edmonton MP Michael Cooper.[2]
In Canada's 43rd Parliament
Since being elected, Lloyd has served on several Parliamentary Committees including the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology; the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic; and the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.[5]
On September 8, 2020 Conservative leader Erin O'Toole appointed Lloyd as Shadow Minister for Digital Government.[6]
McCann's Law
St. Albert residents Lyle and Marie McCann went missing in July 2010 on a road trip from their home town to Chilliwack, British Columbia. Their charred motor home was discovered a few days later, resulting in a search that led to the arrest (and subsequent conviction[7]) of Travis Vader for their murder.[8] While Vader was still unwilling to assist authorities in locating the McCanns’ remains he will be eligible for parole in 2021.[7] This was the catalyst for Lloyd's commitment, in the 2017 Sturgeon River-Parkland Conservative Nomination, to introduce a Private Member's Bill that would help families recover the remains of their loved ones.[9] The McCann's oldest son, Bret McCann, worked with Lloyd in drafting of the bill after he was elected.[10]
In March 2019, Lloyd introduced Private Member's Bill C-437, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act, also known as McCanns’ Law. If passed, willingness to assist authorities to locate the remains of the victim(s) would be a consideration for parole eligibility for someone convicted in the death of a person. According to Lloyd "the hope is not to necessarily punish people more, but to give them (an) incentive to cooperate, to give relevant information on the location of the bodies and then enable the families to have the closure of a funeral."[11]
In Canada's 44th Parliament
Lloyd was re-elected to the 44th Canadian Parliament. As of 2022 he served only on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU).
On 25 February 2022 new interim leader Candice Bergen named Lloyd to shadow the Minister of Emergency Preparedness.[12]
Emergencies Act investigation
In the wake of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest and crackdown, the SECU committee held a number of investigatory meetings. Lloyd attracted attention when he "grilled" interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell over the conduct of his force during the event. Lloyd was persistent on the question "about whether loaded firearms were found in protesters' vehicles", to which Bell answered "there have been no charges laid to date in relation to weapons at the occupation site." Lloyd then accused a Toronto Star journalist, Justin Ling, and Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Marc Miller of spreading misinformation.[13][14][15]
On 13 April 2022 Lloyd returned to this subject when pressed by the Western Standard:[14]
We’ve seen from levels from police sources, from the media, from even members of the government claiming that, you know, the truckers were committing acts of arson, that they had found firearms, and yet, when we really delve down and asked the questions and looked for the evidence, we’re finding out the story is a lot different than what we were told... All throughout these protests, and in the aftermath, Justin Trudeau and the government have been saying, you know, ‘misinformation, disinformation is a threat to our democracy,’ that the truckers were spreading lies and the protesters were spreading misinformation, and yet, we see that in the media, in some cases, was also spreading misinformation... The fact that no public notification was made, leads me to believe, well, I think definitively, that there were no firearms found in the first place... Despite this total lack of evidence [some are] trying to spin this tale that there were all these firearms in downtown Ottawa... We had allegedly (sic) police sources telling media that firearms had been found, we had members of the government retweeting information that firearms had been found, we saw police intelligence claiming that they had evidence that firearms were coming into downtown Ottawa, that foreign funding was flooding in, that it was overwhelmingly foreign funding from dark web sources... And yet, every time we’ve asked the experts, whether it’s GoFundMe, whether it’s the chief of police in this case; every time we’ve asked them to corroborate these claims, they haven’t been able to.
On 19 May 2022 Lloyd asked Minister for Public Safety Marco Mendicino about the need for the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Mendicino said he "stands by previous statements that the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on the recommendation of law enforcement officials."[16] The "previous statements" were in witness testimony that Mendicino made at a committee hearing in April, to wit that the government "invoked the act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement that the existing authorities were ineffective at the time to restore public safety."[citation needed]
Controversies
Support for Rebel News
In 2014 Lloyd shared a link on Facebook to a fundraising campaign by The Rebel to fight "anti-Christian bigots on Nanaimo city council."[2]
Canadian NRA
In 2009, at the age of 18 he announced his intention on Facebook to create a National Rifle Association of Canada. However, during his October 2017 by-election campaign, Lloyd stated that his views had changed since 2009 and he now favours a "commitment to cost-effective gun control programs designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals while respecting the rights of law-abiding Canadians to own and use firearms responsibly."[2]
Feminazis
Lloyd used the term 'feminazis' while commenting on a Facebook post regarding Guelph University's 2009 decision to close its women studies program—something he since regrets and said in October 2017 "is not a term he would use today".[17]
Support for General Lee
In 2015 he commented on a Facebook post referencing an article from the Russia Today website opposing the removal of a 1945 memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Baltimore, stating that despite being on the wrong side of the Civil War "his actions at the end of the war did much to heal and unite a deeply divided nation."[2]
Personal life
Lloyd is married to Raechel. He attended a Baptist Church in St. Albert, Alberta, and worships regularly with the Anglican Network in Canada denomination.[citation needed]
Electoral record
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Dane Lloyd | 40,957 | 61.6 | -15.9 | ||||
| New Democratic | Kendra Mills | 12,532 | 18.9 | +8.8 | ||||
| People's | Murray MacKinnon | 6,671 | 10.0 | +7.6 | ||||
| Liberal | Irene Walker | 4,579 | 6.9 | +0.1 | ||||
| Maverick | Jeff Dunham | 1,240 | 1.9 | N/A | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Jeffrey Willerton | 497 | 0.7 | +0.1 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 66,476 | 99.5 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 331 | 0.5 | ||||||
| Turnout | 66,807 | 70.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 94,598 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -12.4 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[18] | ||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Dane Lloyd | 53,235 | 77.5 | +0.14 | $58,200.08 | |||
| New Democratic | Guy Desforges | 6,940 | 10.1 | +2.40 | $1,087.50 | |||
| Liberal | Ronald Brochu | 4,696 | 6.8 | -5.23 | none listed | |||
| Green | Cass Romyn | 1,745 | 2.5 | - | $3,311.72 | |||
| People's | Tyler Beauchamp | 1,625 | 2.4 | - | none listed | |||
| Christian Heritage | Ernest Chauvet | 416 | 0.6 | -2.30 | $4,500.34 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 68,657 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 314 | |||||||
| Turnout | 68,971 | 74.2 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 92,965 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -1.13 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[19][20] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, October 23, 2017: Sturgeon River—Parkland Resignation of Rona Ambrose | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Dane Lloyd | 16,125 | 77.4 | +7.13 | ||||
| Liberal | Brian Gold | 2,508 | 12.0 | −3.55 | ||||
| New Democratic | Shawna Gawreluck | 1,606 | 7.7 | −2.32 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Ernest Chauvet | 605 | 2.9 | - | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 20,844 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 23.69 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 87,968 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +5.34 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Conservative candidate poised to replace Rona Ambrose in Sturgeon River-Parkland". Edmonton Journal, October 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Lum, Zi-Ann (October 11, 2017). "Dane Lloyd, Federal Tory Candidate, Once Tried To Start A Canadian NRA 'Movement'". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on October 13, 2017.
- ^ Henderson, Jennifer (August 16, 2017). "Two join nomination race for Sturgeon River – Parkland". St. Albert Gazette. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ a b "Dane Lloyd on LinkedIn, accessed on March 2, 2018.
- ^ "Roles - Dane Lloyd - Current and Past - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada". Our Commons. House of Commons of Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "Erin O’Toole Announces Conservative Shadow Cabinet Archived December 11, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, accessed on September 22, 2020.
- ^ a b Purdy, Chris (September 20, 2017). "'No body, no parole:' Alberta candidate wants law to help victims' families". Calgary Herald. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Alberta RCMP arrest Travis Vader again in connection to murders of Lyle and Marie McCann". Calgary Sun. December 20, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "'No body, no parole:' Alberta candidate wants law to help victims' families". September 20, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ Aldrich, Joshua (March 1, 2019). "MP Lloyd presents McCanns' Law in Parliament". Spruce Grove Examiner. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Lloyd introduces McCanns Law". StAlbertToday.ca. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "CPWA Ottawa Report". American Public Works Association. March 7, 2022.
- ^ "Trucker protests: Interim Ottawa police chief says no charges laid in connection to loaded firearms". Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. March 24, 2022.
- ^ a b Risdon, Melanie (April 13, 2022). "WATCH: MP says misinformation on Ottawa protests spread by media, government". Western Standard New Media Corp.
- ^ "SECU Public Safety and National Security - Thursday, March 24, 2022 - Occupation of Ottawa and the Federal Government's Response to Convoy Blockades". Global-Regulation. govtmonitor.com. March 24, 2022.
- ^ Kirkup, Kristy; Carbert, Michelle (May 19, 2022). "Public Safety Minister stands by statements that law enforcement recommended using Emergencies Act". The Globe and Mail Inc.
- ^ "Conservative candidate in Ambrose's old riding regrets 'feminazis' remark". CTV News, October 4, 2017.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
External links
- Dane Lloyd – Parliament of Canada biography
