28 Facts About Diane Ablonczy

Diane Ablonczy is a former Canadian Member of Parliament who served in the House of Commons of Canada.

Diane Ablonczy served as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from January 4,2011 to July 15,2013.

Diane Ablonczy was previously appointed Minister of State on January 19,2010.

Diane Ablonczy held the position of Minister of State from October 30,2008, Secretary of State from August 14,2007, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from February 2006.

Previously, Diane Ablonczy served as Chief Opposition Critic for Citizenship and Immigration, Health, and Human Resources Development.

Diane Ablonczy was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993 as the Reform Party Member of Parliament for Calgary North.

On July 4,2013, Diane Ablonczy announced she would not seek re-election in the 2015 federal election.

Diane Ablonczy Broadway was born in 1949 in Peoria, Illinois, United States, as the oldest of six children.

Diane Ablonczy married Tom Ablonczy, a well site engineer and refugee of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Diane Ablonczy was widowed in 1984 and is married to Ron Sauer.

Diane Ablonczy has one daughter, four stepchildren, and eight grandchildren.

In early 1987, Diane Ablonczy joined the Reform Association of Canada, and later that year became a founding member of the Reform Party of Canada.

Diane Ablonczy was elected as the first Party Chairman and served two terms in this role.

Diane Ablonczy was a member of the Reform Party Expansion Committee, and she chaired the Reform Party Task Force on the Reform of Social Programs.

In 1998 and 1999, Diane Ablonczy promoted the United Alternative process to create a new federal political party on the political right.

Diane Ablonczy was re-elected under the new party's banner in the 2000 federal election.

On November 18,2002, Diane Ablonczy posed a question in the House of Commons concerning the government's system of "screening and security checks" as related to Maher Arar, a dual Canadian and Syrian citizen who had recently been deported from the United States to Syria as a terror suspect.

Diane Ablonczy criticized the Chretien government for "chastising the US for sending Arar back to Syria where he is a citizen".

Diane Ablonczy later lost authority over such funding projects to another cabinet minister.

On July 4,2013, Diane Ablonczy announced her retirement from parliament at the next election.

Diane Ablonczy was first elected to the House of Commons on October 25,1993.

On June 28,2004, Diane Ablonczy was once more elected as the MP for Calgary-Nose Hill, this time for the new Conservative Party.

Diane Ablonczy oversaw the development and implementation of the following important Ministry initiatives:.

Bill C-40, An Act to establish National Seniors Day, introduced by Minister of State Diane Ablonczy, received Royal Assent on November 18,2010.

On January 4,2011, Diane Ablonczy was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and the position was expanded to include responsibility for the Americas and Consular Affairs.

Diane Ablonczy became a member of the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and continued to be a member of the Treasury Board.

Diane Ablonczy was re-appointed Minister of State of Foreign Affairs in the new cabinet announced on May 18,2011.

On July 4,2013, Diane Ablonczy announced she would not seek re-election in the 2015 federal election, confirming the decision in the House of Commons on May 28,2015.