Everything about Harold Albrecht totally explained
Harold Glenn Albrecht (born
October 15,
1949 in
Kitchener, Ontario) is a
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of
Kitchener—Conestoga. He defeated the incumbent
Liberal MP,
Lynn Myers, by just over 1000 votes in the
2006 federal election to gain a seat in the
Canadian House of Commons.
Albrecht grew up in the riding in which he was elected and was educated in
Waterloo Region at
Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, and then at
Waterloo Lutheran University (which is now
Wilfrid Laurier University). He owned a private dental practice in
Kitchener for twenty-seven years and was also a trustee on the Waterloo County Board of Education from 1978 to 1982, as well as being the Chair of the Board from 1981 to 1982. In his dentistry career, he also went on many short-term Christian missions trips to
Third World countries.
In 1999, Albrecht left his dentistry practice to pastor Pathway Community Church in the Doon area of Kitchener. The church started meeting in November of that year, with a small congregation of around 70 people. It also became the third
Brethren in Christ church in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Albrecht pastored the church until 2005, when he announced a leave of absence to seek the Conservative Party nomination in his riding. When he won the nomination, he permanently resigned his leadership position from the Church.
In Ottawa, Albrecht is the founder and chair of the BioCaucus, a group of MPs who work to promote the production of agricultural and renewable technologies. He sits on the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development committee and the Government Operations and Estimates committee.
Albrecht favours reforming Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act. In particular, he'd like to see stiffer sentences for young offenders who commit violent crimes. His interest was sparked by the Justice for Dustin Campaign-an endeavour by the family of a murdered Kitchener teen to see stricter sentences for violent young offenders.
Albrecht owns a hobby farm in between
Petersburg and
New Dundee, and he and his wife Betty have been married for over thirty-five years. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
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