Karen Redman – Liberal
Posted Apr 13, 2011 09:01:07 AM.
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58-year old Karen Redman represented the riding of Kitchener-Centre from 1997 to 2008, serving as Chief Government Whip in the 2004-05 Parliament, and was the Chief Official Opposition Whip in the 2006-08 parliament. She was defeated in the 2008 federal election.
After completing high school at Eastwood Collegiate Institute, Redman went on to graduate from the University of Waterloo, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1974. She subsequently worked as a writer, and was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Learning Disabilities Association and the Canadian Federation of University Women. She has been an elder in Kitchener’s St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church since 1991.
Redman served as a trustee on the Waterloo County Board of Education from 1988 to 1994, and was a councillor for the City of Kitchener and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo from 1994 to 1997.
She was first elected to parliament in the federal election of 1997, defeating former Progressive Conservative MP John Reimer by over 10,000 votes. She was re-elected by comfortable margins in the elections of 2000, 2004, and 2006.
In the 2008 federal election, she lost to Stephen Woodworth of the Conservative Party of Canada by 339 votes.
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