- Rick Casson
Infobox CanadianMP | name=Richard L. Casson
term_start=1997
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predecessor=Blaine Thacker
birth_date= birth date and age |1948|12|30
birth_place=Calgary, Alberta
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death_place=
profession= printer
party=Conservative
party colour=Conservative
residence=Lethbridge ,Alberta
riding=Lethbridge
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spouse=Jeanene Casson
religion=|Richard L. Casson (born
December 30 ,1948 inCalgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian politician.Casson is currently a member of the
Conservative Party of Canada in theCanadian House of Commons , representing the riding of Lethbridge since 1997. He has also been a member of theCanadian Alliance (2000-2003) and theReform Party of Canada (1997-2000). Casson is the Chairman of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Co-Chair - Permanent Joint Board on Defence.Casson is a former manager of printing services. Casson was mayor of
Picture Butte, Alberta from 1986 to 1995 and a councillor before that.In 2003, Rick Casson supported the Iraq war [http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:29zOjnFedgUJ:rickcasson.com/website_old/issues/index.htm+site:rickcasson.com+iraq&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5] , and in spring 2006 voted yes to the extension of Canadian military deployment in Afghanistan to 2009.
In the 1997 federal election Casson received 55.5% of the popular vote. He went on to receive 66% in the 2000 election, 63% support in the 2004 election and 67.3% in the 2006 election.
External links
* [http://www.rickcasson.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/member.php?id=59 How'd They Vote?: Rick Casson's voting history and quotes]
* [http://www.elections.ca/]
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=70fbc416-ab1b-4f44-a513-8b182035047a&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]
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