Rick Laliberte

Rick Laliberte
MP
Member of Parliament
for Churchill River
In office
June 2, 1997 – June 28, 2004
Preceded byriding created
Succeeded byJeremy Harrison
Personal details
Born (1958-09-13) September 13, 1958 (age 66)
Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada
Political partyNDP (1997–2000)
Liberal (2000–2004)
Independent (2004)
ProfessionSchool administrator

Rick Laliberte (born September 13, 1958) is a former Canadian politician. Laliberte was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Churchill River, a riding that encompasses the northern half of the province of Saskatchewan.

Laliberte was born and raised in Beauval, Saskatchewan. He is Métis and is fluent in Cree-Michif.[1] He was elected as a New Democratic Party candidate in the 1997 federal election, but crossed the floor on September 27, 2000, to join the Liberal Party of Canada.[2][3] He was re-elected as a Liberal party member in the 2000 federal election.[4] He then left the Liberal Party prior to the 2004 election and failed to win reelection as an independent, coming in fourth behind the NDP, Liberals and the winning Conservative, Jeremy Harrison.[5]

  1. ^ Rick Laliberte - MP
  2. ^ "NDP MP defects to Liberal party". CBC News. September 28, 2000. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  3. ^ "Chrétien reels in another defector". The Globe and Mail. September 28, 2000. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  4. ^ "West shows it considers itself a different kind of place". The Globe and Mail. November 28, 2000. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  5. ^ Lyons, Murray (June 29, 2004). "Harrison ousts Laliberte". The StarPhoenix. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. p. B4. Retrieved February 10, 2024 – via newspapers.com.