Olive Crane

Olive Crane
MLA for Morell-Fortune Bay
In office 2006 – June 12, 2007
Preceded by	Kevin MacAdam
Succeeded by	riding dissolved
MLA for Morell-Mermaid
Incumbent
Assumed office June 12, 2007
Preceded by	new district

Olive Crane is a Canadian politician and social worker from Douglas Station, Prince Edward Island. She is the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island.

She is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, representing District 7 Morell-Mermaid. On September 4, 2007 she was appointed the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island,^[1] serving until her resignation in 2010. She is the fifth woman to serve as leader/interim leader of a PEI political party (after Catherine Callbeck, Leone Bagnall, Sharon Labchuk and Pat Mella).

On May 26, 2010, Olive Crane resigned as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island and announced her intentions to seek the permanent leadership. On October 2, 2010, she won the leadership of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party on the second ballot, defeating her main opponent Jamie Ballem.

A native of Morell, Prince Edward Island, Crane is a graduate of Dalhousie University. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island on March 20, 2006 in the by-election for District #2, Morell-Fortune Bay, and re-elected to the Legislature on May 28, 2007 representing District # 7, Morell-Mermaid. Following the 2007 election, she was appointed the Opposition Critic for Health, Education, the Status of Women, and Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour.

She is a career civil servant, working as a social worker for the provincial government since 1979. She has worked in a variety of departments from Health & Social Services, Office of the Attorney General to Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Her sister Dody Crane is a member of the New Democratic Party, and ran for the Canadian House of Commons on several occasions.

References

1. ^ "Crane to lead P.E.I. PCs". cbc.ca, September 5, 2007.

External links

• Olive Crane - official biography

Political offices
Preceded by Pat Binns	Interim Leader of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party 2007-2010	Succeeded by Jim Bagnall (interim)
Preceded by Jim Bagnall (interim)	Leader of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party 2010-present	Succeeded by incumbent
Preceded by Pat Binns	Leader of the Opposition 2007-2010	Succeeded by Jim Bagnall
Preceded by Jim Bagnall	Leader of the Opposition 2010-present	Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Crane, Olive
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