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Contents 1 Official Candidates 1.1 Joe Greene 1.2 Paul Hellyer 1.3 Lloyd Henderson 1.4 Eric Kierans 1.5 Allan MacEachen 1.6 Paul Martin 1.7 Pierre Trudeau 1.8 John Turner 1.9 Robert Winters 2 Withdrawn candidates 2.1 John Kroeker 2.2 Lionel Laframboise 2.3 Mitchell Sharp 2.4 Rod Woodcock 2.5 Ernst Zündel

[edit] Official Candidates

[edit] Joe Greene

Greene announced his candidacy on January 19 in the Regina Suite of the Hotel Saskatchewan. As a campaign tool, Greene's team released chapters of a book titled "The Liberalism of Joe Greene". He emphasized productivity as his main campaign theme.

Supporters in caucus:

Date campaign launched: January 19, 1968.

[edit] Paul Hellyer

Hellyer, then 44, was the Member of Parliament for Trinity, first elected in 1949 in Davenport, the youngest person ever elected as MP to that point. He served as Associate Minister of National Defence in Saint-Laurent's cabinet. Defeated in 1957, he returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the riding of Trinity. When the Liberals returned to power in 1963, he was made Minister of National Defence by Pearson. After withdrawing, he endorsed Winters.

In 1969, he left the Liberal caucus and first tried to form a new political party (Action Canada), and then joined the Progressive Conservatives. Re-elected in 1972, he was defeated in 1974. As a candidate at the PC leadership convention of 1976, he alienated many with his right-wing views. He finished sixth of eight. He lost the Liberal nomination in the riding of St. Paul's in 1988. In 1997, he formed the economically nationalist Canadian Action Party. He resigned as leader in 2004, but remains a member. In September 2005, he made headlines by publicly announcing that he believed in UFOs.

Supporters in caucus: Robert Andras, James Byrne, Léo Cadieux, Grant Deachman, Stanley Haidasz, Judy LaMarsh and Sen. Keith Davey.

Date campaign launched: January 11, 1968.

[edit] Lloyd Henderson

Henderson, ex-mayor of Portage-La Prarie in Manitoba, was the first declared candidate in the race. He had previously run in 1958, winning the support of just one delegate. He became known an "One-Vote Henderson". He was considered a "fringe candidate". Ultimately, he outdid his performance in 1958, receiving zero votes. He endorsed Turner, though, receiving no votes, this likely had no effect.

Supporters in caucus: None.

Date campaign launched: Before December 18, 1967.

[edit] Eric Kierans

Kierans supported free trade with the United States. He did not endorse any candidate upon his withdrawl at the convention.

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[edit] Allan MacEachen

MacEachen withdrew after the first ballot, but did so two minutes too late, thereby remaining on the second ballot.

Supporters in caucus: Albert Béchard, Richard Cashin, John Munro, Margaret Rideout and John Stewart.

Date campaign launched: January 12, 1968.

[edit] Paul Martin

After his moving withdrawl speech, MPs Faulkner, Gray, and Sauvé moved to Trudeau.

Supporters in caucus: Hugh Faulkner, Herb Gray, and Maurice Sauvé.

Date campaign launched: January 19, 1968.

[edit] Pierre Trudeau

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Supporters in caucus: Edgar Benson, Jean Chrétien, C.M. Drury, Walter Gordon, Jean-Pierre Goyer, Bryce Mackasey, Jean Marchand, Gérard Pelletier, Jean-Luc Pepin, Mitchell Sharp, and Sen. David Croll.

Date campaign launched: February 17, 1968

[edit] John Turner

Among those on his campaign team were future Senator Jerry Grafstein and future cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy.

Supporters in caucus: Joseph Macaluso and Sen. Daniel Lang.

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[edit] Robert Winters

Supporters in caucus: Bruce Beer, Jean-Pierre Coté, Jack Davis, Donald Jamieson, Ovide Laflamme.

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[edit] Withdrawn candidates

[edit] John Kroeker

Kroeker, then 38, declared himself as the fourteenth candidate to the convention. He had earlier made news by being fired in 1965 as a civil servant for publically opposing the new Canada Pension Plan.

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Date campaign launched: March 18, 1968.

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[edit] Lionel Laframboise

Laframboise, then 52, was an Elliot Lake-based mine development manager.

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[edit] Mitchell Sharp

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Supporters in caucus: Jean Chretien, C.M. Drury, Jean-Luc Pepin and Sen. J.J. Donnelly.

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Date withdrawn: April 3, 1968.

[edit] Rod Woodcock

Woodcock, then 21, was an Edmonton-based unemployed camera salesman.

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[edit] Ernst Zündel

Zündel (sometimes Zuendel), then 29 and a Montreal-based commercial artist, openly admitted in a speech that he was "one of the nuisance candidates". Politely, if unenthusiastically, received by the delegates, the bilingual, "good-looking and well-spoken" Zündel finished charged that television was propagating an anti-immigrant ethos among Canadians by showing "anti-German hate programs" on television. He later became noted Holocaust denier, and has been deported from Canada.

Supporters in caucus: None.

Date campaign launched: March 12, 1968.

Date withdrawn: April 8, 1968.