Chris Warkentin Explained

Chris Warkentin
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Deputy Chief Opposition Whip
Conservative Party Question Period Coordinator
Leader:Pierre Poilievre
Term Start:September 13, 2022
Predecessor:Eric Duncan (As QP Coordinator)
James Bezan (As Deputy Whip)
Office1:Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture
Leader1:Rona Ambrose
Term Start1:November 20, 2015
Term End1:September 14, 2016
Predecessor1:Malcolm Allen
Successor1:David Anderson
Parliament2:Canadian
Riding2:Grande Prairie-Mackenzie
Peace River (2006-2015)
Term Start2:January 23, 2006
Predecessor2:Charlie Penson
Birth Date:20 November 1978
Birth Place:Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Profession:construction executive
Party:Conservative
Residence:Grande Prairie, Alberta
Office5:Chair of the Standing Committee on
Aboriginal Affairs
Minister5:John Duncan
Bernard Valcourt
Term Start5:23 June 2011
Term End5:18 February 2015
Predecessor5:Bruce Stanton
Successor5:Blake Richards
Spouse:Michelle Warkentin

Chris Warkentin (born November 20, 1978) is a businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament from Alberta, Canada. He was first elected in 2006.

Personal life

Warkentin was born in Grande Prairie and raised on the family farm east of Grande Prairie, near the Hamlet of DeBolt in the MD of Greenview.[1] He is an alumnus of the Peace River Bible Institute, and also studied business and marketing at Grande Prairie Regional College before going on to own and operate a custom home building company. He has served on the board of his local Conservative constituency association and was involved with the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance.

Political career

Warkentin was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the riding of Peace River in the 2006 federal election, and was re-elected in that same riding in 2008 and 2011. Following the redistribution of seats before the 2015 federal election, he was re-elected and currently serves as the Member of Parliament for the new riding of Grande Prairie-Mackenzie. Warkentin has won every election he has contested with more than 56% of the vote, and a margin of more than 36 percentage points over the runner-up.

Warkentin served as the Chair of the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015, Warkentin was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Diane Finley. Following the defeat of the Conservative government in October 2015, Warkentin was appointed Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture. In September 2016, a shadow cabinet shuffle moved Warkentin to the role of Official Opposition Deputy House Leader.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Chris Warkentin, Member of Parliament . MP Grande Prairie-Mackenzie . December 23, 2016.