of directors for the Overseas Book Centre (Globe and Mail, 2 January 1982). In 1996, he spoke before a provincial committee against the Gary Filmon government's decision to privatize the Manitoba Telephone System. Hiebert was sixty-six years old in 2000. A Winnipeg Free Press article from the election describes him as "an animated speaker and staunch New Democrat". He acknowledged that he had little chance of winning, and operated a low-budget campaign (Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 2000). He finished fourth against Canadian Alliance candidate Vic Toews. Hiebert protested against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (WFP, 19 January 2003). Roman Yereniuk (Winnipeg North—St. Paul) Yereniuk received 7,931 votes, finishing third against Liberal incumbent Rey Pagtakhan. Saskatchewan Hugh Walker (Saskatoon—Wanuskewin) Walker is an economic consultant, with a PhD in agricultural economics. He has worked for organizations such as the Agricultural Economics Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Livestock Feed Board and Western Economic Diversification in Saskatoon. A longtime party member, he served as president of the provincial Saskatoon Northwest NDP constituency organization from 1993 to 1997 (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 8 September 2000). Much of his campaign focused on economic issues. He received 8,022 votes (24.23%), finishing second against Canadian Alliance incumbent Maurice Vellacott. Alberta Richard D. Vanderberg (Edmonton West) Vanderberg (born November 12, 1940, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a university professor. He held a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Wyoming, a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Southampton, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary. He came to Canada from England in 1969, and held dual Canadian-American citizenship. He has taught political studies at the University of Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan (Calgary Herald, 20 January 1989), and was once an associate professor of Political Science and Economics at the University of Alberta. Since the 1990s, he had taught at Grant MacEwan Community College (Edmonton Journal, 5 March 1997). Vanderberg ran the Wyoming headquarters for John F. Kennedy's campaign during the 1960 American presidential election. He had campaigned four times for the provincial and federal wings of the New Democratic Party. In 1995, he co-chaired a loose coalition of groups called the Alberta Common Front to protest cutbacks by the provincial government of Ralph Klein. Following the 1988 election, Vanderberg called for the NDP to consider reducing its alliance