20 Facts About Brad Trost

Brad Trost was a candidate in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, finishing fourth.

Brad Trost holds a Bachelor of Science in geophysics and a Bachelor of Arts in economics, both from the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2004, in what was the closest four-way race in the country, Brad Trost received 417 more votes than second-place candidate, the New Democratic Party's Nettie Wiebe, 435 votes ahead of the third place candidate, Liberal Patrick Wolfe, and 2368 votes ahead of former Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament Jim Pankiw.

Brad Trost was re-elected, in 2006,2008, and 2011 earning between 49 per cent and 53 per cent of the vote defeating the second-place NDP, and the third-place Liberals in Saskatoon-Humboldt in each election.

Brad Trost has been an outspoken critic of moves toward a carbon tax, arguing that such a tax kills jobs and blocks job creation.

Brad Trost served as a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources.

Brad Trost had served as a member of the International Trade Committee and, before that, the Industry Committee.

Brad Trost is the founder of the Conservative Party's Energy Caucus and was a member of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus.

Brad Trost served as an elected vice-chair of the Canada-US Parliamentary Association.

Between August 2016 and May 2017, Brad Trost campaigned to become Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Brad Trost was the third runner-up in a field of thirteen candidates, being eliminated on the tenth ballot after coming in fourth behind frontrunner Maxime Bernier, eventual winner Andrew Scheer, and Erin O'Toole, who would become leader of the party in 2020.

In 2018, Brad Trost lost the renomination as the party candidate for his riding during the 43rd Federal election to Corey Tochor, former speaker of the Saskatchewan Legislature.

Brad Trost has been noted for publicly taking fiscally and socially conservative stances.

In July 2009, Brad Trost criticized his own government's funding of Toronto Pride Week under the $100 million Marquee Tourism Events stimulus program.

In November 2009, Brad Trost launched a petition to stop the federal government's funding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

In September 2011, Brad Trost publicly voiced his anger at the federal government's decision to fund the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Brad Trost said that Conservative MPs' requests that the Prime Minister's Office cease funding have been ignored.

In January 2012, Brad Trost criticized the strict party discipline imposed upon Conservative MPs, saying it stifled debate and independent thought.

Brad Trost was one of the few MPs at the 2016 Conservative policy convention who insisted on retaining the party's definition of marriage as "the Union of one man and one woman".

On May 4,2017, Brad Trost sent a private member's bill to the floor to privatize the CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster, and upon its second reading it was defeated 260 to 6, with only himself and five other Conservative members voting for the bill.