third against new Liberal candidate Raymond Simard. He was 35 years old at the time of the 2002 by-election, and worked as a project manager with the Manitoba Telephone System (Winnipeg Free Press, 5 April 2002). In 2004, Reilly endorsed the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada, which had been formed by a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party with the Canadian Alliance (Winnipeg Free Press, 23 June 2004). Reilly's wife, Kirsty Reilly, has campaigned for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba at the provincial level. Myron Troniak (Winnipeg North) Troniak is a financial planner, and is listed in a 1998 newspaper report as a consumer mortgage advocate with Benchmark Financial Services (Winnipeg Free Press, 18 April). He also campaigned for a seat on the Assiniboine South school board in 1998. A 2005 report lists him as 47 years old (Manitoba Business, 1 July 2005). Geoffrey Lambert (Winnipeg South) Lambert is a political studies professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He has written on Canada's political culture, and has provided an award for first-year Political Science students at the University of Manitoba. Lambert has also been the Manitoba contact for the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. The 2000 election was Lambert's only campaign for public office at the provincial or federal level. He was forced to withdraw shortly before election day for health reasons, although his name remained on the ballot (Canadian Press, 14 November 2000, 21:36 report). He received 3,599 votes (8.55%), finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Reg Alcock. Lambert is also a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. In 2002, he criticized party leader Stuart Murray for hiring discredited strategist Taras Sokolyk as an adviser (Broadcast News, 16 December 2002). He wrote Manitoba's contributions to the Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs in 2005. Christopher Brewer (Winnipeg—Transcona) Brewer was a truck driver at the time of the election. He won the Progressive Conservative nomination by acclamation, and received 2,133 votes (6.51%) in the general election for a fourth-place finish against New Democratic Party incumbent Bill Blaikie. Saskatchewan Kirk Eggum (Saskatoon—Wanuskewin) Eggum was a 22-year-old student at the University of Saskatchewan during the election (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 23 November 2000). He was previously a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan during that party's skeletal campaign in the 1999 provincial election. In 2000, he supported the elimination of taxes on scholarships and increased