John Buchanan
- This is an article about the Canadian Premier. See John_Buchanan_%28American_politician%29 for an article about the 2004 American presidential candidate.
John Maclellan Buchanan (born April 22, 1931) was first elected to the
Nova Scotia legislature in 1967. He became leader of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia in 1971 and became
Premier of
Nova Scotia in 1978. In 1990 he left provincial politics and was appointed to the
Canadian Senate by Canadian
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as one of several special appointments Mulroney made under a provision in the
Canadian constitution that allowed the creation of extra Senators above the ordinary limit. Murloney did this in order to pass the
Goods and Services Tax through the Canadian
Upper House and Buchanan obliged by voting for the unpopular measure.
Buchanan sat as a Progressive Conservative until 2004 when the party merged with the Canadian Alliance. He now sits as a Senator for the new Conservative Party of Canada.
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