Reg and Edie MacDonald ( Mike Dorsey and Wendy Blacklock ) and their bubbly daughter Marilyn ( Frances Hargreaves ) arrived at the start of 1974 as three more comedy characters.

Long-running characters Dorrie and Herb Evans, Flo Patterson, Don Finlayson, Arnold Feather, and Reg and Edie MacDonald, all continued in the series to the end.

Since these early days The Hidden Cameras have played host to a number of notable musicians, including Reg Vermue, Owen Pallett, Laura Barrett, Don Kerr, Magali Meagher ( of The Phonemes ), Mike Olsen ( of the Arcade Fire ) and Maggie MacDonald.

Reg Alcock and several others inside the Liberal Party had opposed the timing of the vote, and the poor results prompted Paul Martin's supporters to organize against Chrétien.

However, the record for crossing the floor in the Australian Parliament goes to Tasmanian Senator Sir Reg Wright, who voted against his own party ( the Liberal Party of Australia ) on 150 occasions.

Between 1948 – 50, he was Liberal agent in Stockport but following the poor general election results experienced by the Liberal Party in 1950 and 1951, he was advised by the losing Liberal candidate for Stockport, Reg Hewitt, to join the Labour Party.

Rocan supported his friend Reg Alcock in the federal elections of 2000 and 2004, despite the fact that Alcock is a Liberal.

Bruinooge finished second in the election against Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock.

She finished third, behind Liberal candidate Reg Alcock and incumbent New Democrat Muriel Smith.

Gray worked as the campaign manager for federal Liberal cabinet minister Reg Alcock in the 2004 federal election, and was subsequently hired as a lobbyist of the Canadian Wheat Board, a department under Alcock ’ s ministry.

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* 10 March – Sir Reg Wright ( born 1905 ), Tasmanian Liberal senator

Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924, and although his government was defeated, he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives.

His targets included the Conservative Winston Churchill and the Liberal David Lloyd George, as well as Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret Bondfield from his own Labour party ( he targeted the latter for her unwillingness to increase unemployment benefits ).

In 1903, the Liberal Party's Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone negotiated a pact with Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Representation Committee to withdraw Liberal candidates in order to help LRC candidates in certain seats, in return for LRC withdrawal in other seats to help Liberal candidates.

Josiah Wedgwood IV was a Liberal, Independent and Labour Party MP, who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald, in the first ever Labour government.

In addition to the beloved party leader Keir Hardie came the Scot Bruce Glasier, elected to the NAC in 1897 and succeeding Hardie as Chairman in 1900 ; Phillip Snowden, an evangelical socialist from the West Riding, and Ramsay MacDonald, whose adhesion to the ILP had been secured in the wake of his disillusionment with the Liberal Party over its rejection of trade unionist candidate in the 1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election.

In May 1929, a minority Labour government headed by Ramsay MacDonald came to office with Liberal support.

In the riding of York South — Weston, adjacent to Parkdale — High Park and once the seat of former leaders Bob Rae, Donald C. MacDonald and Ted Jolliffe, the NDP continued its string of recent by-election successes by taking away another Liberal strong-hold.

In 1931 the Liberal Party joined the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald and with Sinclair appointed Secretary of State for Scotland.

MacDonald ’ s published journalism ( The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, the Glasgow Herald and the New Statesman ) include articles on: Northern Ireland ; the Balkans ; Russia ; links between Labour and the Liberal Democrats ; Voting Reform ; the Debate on Clause 4, etc.

There were few experienced Labour lawyers in the House of Commons, however, and the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald attempted to lure prominent Liberal lawyers to fill the positions of Attorney General and Solicitor General for England and Wales.

Milliken won the Kingston and the Islands Liberal nomination in 1988 over local alderman Alex Lampropoulos, and defeated well-known Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Flora MacDonald by 2, 712 votes in the 1988 general election.

In 1903 an agreement was made between Herbert Gladstone ( then Chief Whip of the Liberal Party ) and Ramsay MacDonald ( Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee ) that, in thirty-four constituencies, the Labour Party and the Liberal Party would not stand against each other, and thus risk splitting their vote.

MacDonald lost his seat to Liberal George Henderson in the 1980 election but returned to the House as MP in the Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1988 election, replacing former Toronto Mayor and PC incumbent David Crombie.

The political crisis generated much concern and the leaders of both the Conservative and Liberal parties met with King George V and MacDonald, at first to discuss support for the measures to be taken but later to discuss the shape of the next government.

MacDonald came under pressure not to merely appoint another Liberal, particularly as it was felt they would be overrepresented, and so instead appointed the Conservative Lord Irwin ( later Lord Halifax ).

The riding is generally regarded as safe for the Tories ; Dunlop defeated his Liberal opponent George MacDonald by about 7000 votes.

Some Fabians, including Olivier and Ramsay MacDonald, adhering to the traditional Liberal opposition to militarism and imperialism, opposed the war ; Olivier claimed that the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, had engineered the conflict to increase British holdings in South Africa.

He first ran for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1975 provincial election as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party, and finished third in York South against former New Democratic Party leader Donald C. MacDonald.

MacDonald was " furious ", and the opinion of the Liberal and Conservative parties was that the government was attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV ( 16 March 1872 – 26 July 1943 ) was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald.

However in the summer of 1931 an economic crisis led to the formation of a National Government led by prime minister Ramsay MacDonald supported by a small number of National Labour MPs and initially backed by the Conservative and Liberal parties.

Herbert Asquith, the Leader of the Liberal Party, called for the appointment of a committee of enquiry as this would allow Labour time to survive the scandal, but MacDonald would not allow it.

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