Chris Warkentin Explained

Chris Warkentin
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office1:Chief Opposition Whip
Leader1:Pierre Poilievre
Term Start1:May 7, 2025
Parliament2:Canadian
Riding2:Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie-Mackenzie (2015–2025)
Peace River (2006-2015)
Term Start2:January 23, 2006
Predecessor2:Charlie Penson
Office3:Deputy Chief Opposition Whip
Conservative Party Question Period Coordinator
1Blankname3:Chief whip
1Namedata3:Kerry-Lynne Findlay
Term Start3:September 13, 2022
Term End3:May 7, 2025
Predecessor3:Eric Duncan (As QP Coordinator)
James Bezan (As Deputy Whip)
Office4:Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture
Leader4:Rona Ambrose
Term Start4:November 20, 2015
Term End4:September 14, 2016
Predecessor4:Malcolm Allen
Successor4:David Anderson
Office5:Chair of the Standing Committee on
Aboriginal Affairs
Minister5:John Duncan
Bernard Valcourt
Term Start5:June 23, 2011
Term End5:February 18, 2015
Predecessor5:Bruce Stanton
Successor5:Blake Richards
Birth Date:20 November 1978
Birth Place:Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Profession:construction executive
Party:Conservative
Residence:Grande Prairie, Alberta
Spouse:Michelle Warkentin

Christopher Warkentin (born November 20, 1978) is a Canadian businessman and politician. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Grande Prairie since his victory in the 2006 federal election.

Personal life

Warkentin was born in Grande Prairie and raised on the family farm east of Grande Prairie, near the Hamlet of DeBolt in the MD of Greenview.[1] He is an alumnus of the Peace River Bible Institute, and also studied business and marketing at Grande Prairie Regional College before going on to own and operate a custom home building company. He has served on the board of his local Conservative constituency association and was involved with the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance.

Political career

Warkentin was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the riding of Peace River in the 2006 federal election, and was re-elected in that same riding in 2008 and 2011. Following the redistribution of seats before the 2015 federal election, he was re-elected and currently serves as the Member of Parliament for the new riding of Grande Prairie-Mackenzie. Warkentin has won every election he has contested with more than 56% of the vote, and a margin of more than 36 percentage points over the runner-up.

Warkentin served as the Chair of the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015, Warkentin was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Diane Finley. Following the defeat of the Conservative government in October 2015, Warkentin was appointed Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture. In September 2016, a shadow cabinet shuffle moved Warkentin to the role of Official Opposition Deputy House Leader.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Chris Warkentin, Member of Parliament . MP Grande Prairie-Mackenzie . December 23, 2016.