Manning Centre for Building Democracy

The Honourable Preston Manning PC CC AOE
Manning in 2014
Leader of the Opposition
In office June 2, 1997 – March 26, 2000
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Gilles Duceppe
Succeeded by	Deborah Grey
Leader of the Reform Party of Canada
In office November 1, 1987 – March 25, 2000
Preceded by	party created
Succeeded by	Deborah Grey (as Interim leader of the Canadian Alliance)
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Calgary Southwest
In office October 25, 1993 – January 31, 2002
Preceded by	Bobbie Sparrow
Succeeded by	Stephen Harper
Personal details
Born	Ernest Preston Manning (1942-06-10) June 10, 1942 (age 74) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Political party	Reform (1987–2000)
Other political affiliations	Canadian Alliance (2000–02)
Residence	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Religion	Christian and Missionary Alliance
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Ernest Preston Manning, PC CC AOE (born June 10, 1942) is a conservative Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance. He sat in Parliament for the Canadian Alliance until his retirement from federal politics in 2002, after which it in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada. Manning sits as an advisor to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.

Manning was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the son of Muriel Aileen (Preston) and Ernest Manning, Social Credit Party Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968. His grandparents were English immigrants. In 1964, Manning graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.A. in Economics. He sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1965 federal election as a candidate of the federal Social Credit Party, but was defeated. Manning identifies himself as an evangelical Christian and attends the First Alliance Church in Calgary. In 1984, Manning was hired as a policy consultant by the Representative Party of Alberta.