12 Facts About Jake Hoeppner

Jake Hoeppner served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2000, initially with the Reform Party and later as an independent member of Parliament.

Jake Hoeppner was a member of the Provisional Board of Keystone Agricultural Producers, District 2 and Southern Co-op Feeders Ltd.

Jake Hoeppner first became a public figure in 1971, when he opposed the provincial government's crop-insurance scheme and received twice what he was initially promised in a hailstone-damage claim.

Jake Hoeppner was the only Reform MP to be elected from a Manitoba riding in this election, and was one of only two party MPs elected east of Saskatchewan.

Jake Hoeppner launched a lawsuit against the Canadian Wheat Board in 1995, alleging that the board had charged insufficient buy-back prices to grain companies and had not properly distributed the money it received.

Jake Hoeppner alleged that the Wheat Board withheld information from producers, though others have disputed his claims.

Jake Hoeppner considered leaving the party in 1998, but chose to stay after receiving promises that it would devote more attention to agriculture.

Jake Hoeppner was excluded from the Reform Party caucus on July 27,1999, after criticizing party leader Preston Manning and strategist Rick Anderson for their plans to fold Reform into the United Alternative.

Jake Hoeppner later announced his plans to challenge Manning for the United Alternative leadership, though this came to nothing.

Jake Hoeppner sought re-election in November 2000 and this time finished a distant fourth against Pallister, who was now a candidate of Reform's successor party, the Canadian Alliance.

Jake Hoeppner once blamed women for inciting male violence, claiming: "As kids we were always taught at home when we went to get the cattle out of the pasture not to wear red because it would infuriate the bull".

Jake Hoeppner was later skeptical about efforts to merge the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservatives to form the Conservative Party of Canada He brought a series of lawsuits against former leaders of the Reform Party, including one in 2004 for "embarrassment, damage to his reputation and humiliation" resulting from his expulsion from the party five years earlier.