Marilyn Burns (politician) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Marilyn Burns is a politician and civil lawyer from Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

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Marilyn was extensively involved with the Alberta Alliance Party

Alberta Alliance Party

The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...

, holding a number of positions in the party's executive council, from late 2003 to June 2006.

Marilyn ran for the Alliance in the 2004 Alberta provincial election

Alberta general election, 2004

The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 22, 2004 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

, in the riding of Stony Plain

Stony Plain (electoral district)

Stony Plain originally styled Stonyplain is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. From 1926 to 1957 Single Transferable Vote was used in the...

. She had one of the stronger Alberta Alliance showings in the capital region, finishing a strong third.

Marilyn was the official justice critic and Vice President of Communications for the Alberta Alliance in 2004 and 2005 until she stepped out of those positions to run for the leadership of the party. She was a very vocal critic in the media of the Klein government's handling on everything from auto insurance to same sex marriage. Her work was valuable to help Paul Hinman

Paul Hinman

Paul Hinman is a provincial politician and small business entrepreneur from Alberta, Canada. He was formerly the leader of the Wildrose Alliance. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2004 to 2008 representing the electoral district of Cardston-Taber-Warner...

, the Alliance's first elected of the legislative assembly.

At the leadership convention, held November 18 & 19, 2005 she lost to Paul Hinman

Paul Hinman

on the third and final ballot. Marilyn was the only woman of the four candidates.

Her son, Jeremy Burns, a student at the University of Alberta, also ran for the Alliance party against Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu is a Canadian educator and politician, who led the Alberta New Democratic Party from 2000 to 2004.Pannu was born in Punjab, India completing an undergraduate degree before immigrating to Canada in 1962...

in Edmonton Strathcona

Edmonton Strathcona

Edmonton Strathcona can refer to:*Edmonton—Strathcona, a federal electoral district*Edmonton-Strathcona...

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In late 2005 Burns teamed up with Robert James, former Progressive Conservative Campaign Chair, and in April 2007, Burns, James, and Link Byfield, an Edmonton Journalist and Senator-elect decided to try to start a new provincial Political party. In June 2007, Burns became secretary of the shortly lived Wildrose Party of Alberta

Wildrose Party of Alberta

The Wildrose Party of Alberta was a right wing provincial political party founded in Alberta, Canada in 2007. The party took its name from Alberta's provincial flower....

, this was the predecessor of the current Wildrose Alliance party.

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