John Edmund Parry: Difference between revisions

| constituency_MP2 = [[Kenora—Rainy River (federal electoral district)|Kenora—Rainy River]]

| spouse = Jen Chu-Fai (m. 1976)<ref name="cpg">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.cacom/books?id=DT2IAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Parry,+john+edmund%22+1946&dq=%22Parry,+john+edmund%22+1946&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR9qeEnL7lAhXgIjQIHcf3Bn0Q6AEIKDAA |title=Guide Parlementaire Canadien - Google Books |publisher=Books.google.ca |date=1985 |accessdate=2019-10-28}}</ref>

| party = [[LiberalNew Democratic Party of Canada|Liberal]]

He first campaigned for the House of Commons in the [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979 federal election]], and finished a close second against [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] candidate [[John Mercer Reid|John M. Reid]] in [[Kenora—Rainy River (federal electoral district)|Kenora—Rainy River]]. He ran again in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 election]], and lost to Reid a second time by only 366 votes.

Parry was finally elected in Kenora-Rainy River to the House of Commons on his third attempt, in the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 election]]. He defeated [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate [[Al Lugli]] by 620 votes, while Reid finished third amid a national decline in support of the Liberal Party. The Progressive Conservative Party won a landslide [[majority government]], and Parry served for the next four years as an opposition member. In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) to heckle [[United States of America|American]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (''Toronto Star'', 6 June 2004).

He campaigned as the New Democratic Party candidate in [[St.Saint BonifaceBoniface—Saint (electoral district)Vital|St. Boniface]] in the [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000 federal election]], and finished third against Liberal incumbent [[Ron Duhamel]]. He contested the same seat in a 2002 by-election, and placed fourth against new Liberal candidate [[Raymond Simard]].

During the early 1990s, Parry testified before a committee of the Ontario legislature on the state of Canada's constitution. He argued that Canadians were correct to reject the [[Meech Lake Accord]], and made a series of recommendations for a future constitutional accord.[https://web.archive.org/web/20051121174336/http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/committee_debates/35_parl/session1/ontario/C005.htm#P68_12611]

{{As of|2005}}, Parry worksworked as a business consultant in [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]], [[Saskatchewan]], and servesserved as committee chair of both the Third Avenue [[United Church of Canada|United Church]] and the [[Saskatoon Peace Coalition]]. He sought the NDP nomination for [[Saskatoon—Wanuskewin]] for the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 federal election]], but lost to Priscilla Settee.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040503102003/http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000437]

Parry returned to Saskatoon later in 2006 and embarked on a career managing NGOs. He held three Executive Directorships before retirement in 2010. He was again nominated to contest Saskatoon—Wanuskewin; the Generalgeneral Electionelection came in 2011 and he finished second, despite polling the highest vote ever there for the NDP.