17 Facts About Ryan Cleary

Ronald E "Ryan" Cleary was born on November 20,1966 and is a Canadian politician and journalist from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

On May 2,2011, Ryan Cleary was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party in the 2011 election.

Ryan Cleary was defeated in the 2015 Canadian federal election, after which he switched parties to run as a Progressive Conservative in the 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election and was defeated in Windsor Lake.

Ryan Cleary was president of the Federation of Independent Seafood Harvesters from its founding to its dissolution.

Ryan Cleary was fisheries reporter for The Telegram in 1992 when the moratorium was first introduced on northern cod.

Ryan Cleary was the editor-in-chief of The Independent newspaper and was known for his outspoken and controversial articles.

For example, Ryan Cleary claimed in his columns that Quebec had too much power in Canadian government institutions and said that Canada's top two problems were Quebec and Quebec.

Ryan Cleary's candidacy led to some controversy for him and NDP leader Jack Layton for comments Cleary had written only a couple of years before when he was a journalist.

In October 2010, Ryan Cleary announced that he would withdraw his candidacy.

Ryan Cleary stated that being a political candidate had created a conflict with his journalism work and that he wished to continue with his journalism career.

Ryan Cleary noted that he had severed all ties with the NDP.

However, in March 2011 with the announcement of a federal election, Ryan Cleary said he would return to run for the NDP again.

Ryan Cleary supports ending the NDP's association with trade unions.

Ryan Cleary won the Progressive Conservative nomination but was defeated in the general election by Liberal incumbent Cathy Bennett.

In 2016, Ryan Cleary started efforts to organize a new union of fish harvesters, to be called the Federation of Independent Seafood Harvesters, or FISH-NL, as a rival to the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union.

Ryan Cleary travelled throughout the province signing up members for union certification, their application for union recognition was considered by the Labour Relations Board from 2016 to 2018.

On December 3,2019, Ryan Cleary announced the disillusion of FISH-NL after it failed to gain the necessary 4000 signatures after a second membership drive to trigger a ratification vote.