Dane Lloyd

Dane Lloyd (born February 16, 1991) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on October 23, 2017, following the resignation of Rona Ambrose. Lloyd represents the constituency of Parkland as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Lloyd continues to serve as a Canadian Army reservist in the Governor General's Foot Guards located in Ottawa. He attended and graduated from Edmonton Christian High School in 2009. In 2014, he graduated from Trinity Western University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science.

Career Lloyd began his political career as an intern serving in the office of MP Brent Rathgeber in 2009. The following year he served in the office of Tony Clement then Minister of Industry. His final internship in the fall of 2011 through the Laurentian Leadership Centre was in the office of Jason Kenney when he served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. In 2013 before completing his degree Lloyd moved from Alberta to Ottawa and served as a special assistant to then Minister of International Trade (Ed Fast). After the 2015 election Lloyd accepted a position as parliamentary advisor to St. Albert—Edmonton MP Michael Cooper.

In 2020, Conservative leader Erin O'Toole appointed Lloyd as Shadow Minister for Digital Government. Following the 2021 election Lloyd was appointed as Shadow Minister for Emergency Preparedness.

On 25 February 2022 interim leader Candice Bergen re-named Lloyd to shadow the Minister of Emergency Preparedness.

On October 12, 2022, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre re-appointed Lloyd to the position of Shadow Minister of Emergency Preparedness, a position he holds to this day.

Federal ridings in Alberta were redistributed prior to the 2025 federal election; Lloyd was re-elected to parliament in the newly created Parkland riding.

Legislative initiatives

During his nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada in 2017, Lloyd proposed introducing McCanns' Law in honour of St. Albert residents Lyle and Marie McCann who went missing in July 2010 on a road trip from their home town to Chilliwack, British Columbia. Their charred motor home was discovered a few days later, resulting in a search that led to the arrest (and subsequent conviction While Vader was still unwilling to assist authorities in locating the McCanns' remains he will be eligible for parole in 2021. This was the catalyst for Lloyd's commitment, in the 2017 Sturgeon River-Parkland Conservative Nomination, to introduce a Private Member's Bill that would help families recover the remains of their loved ones. The McCann's oldest son, Bret McCann, worked with Lloyd in drafting of the bill after he was elected.

In March 2019, Lloyd introduced Private Member's Bill C-437, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act, also known as McCanns' Law. If passed, willingness to assist authorities to locate the remains of the victim(s) would be a consideration for parole eligibility for someone convicted in the death of a person. According to Lloyd "the hope is not to necessarily punish people more, but to give them (an) incentive to cooperate, to give relevant information on the location of the bodies and then enable the families to have the closure of a funeral."

Emergencies Act investigation In the wake of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest and crackdown, the SECU committee held a number of investigatory meetings. Lloyd attracted attention when he "grilled" interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell over the conduct of his force during the event. Lloyd was persistent on the question "about whether loaded firearms were found in protesters' vehicles", to which Bell answered "there have been no charges laid to date in relation to weapons at the occupation site". Lloyd then accused a Toronto Star journalist, Justin Ling, and Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Marc Miller of spreading misinformation.

On 13 April 2022 Lloyd returned to this subject when pressed by the Western Standard: The "previous statements" were in witness testimony that Mendicino made at a committee hearing in April, to wit that the government "invoked the act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement that the existing authorities were ineffective at the time to restore public safety".

Controversies

Canadian NRA In 2009, at the age of 18 he announced his intention on Facebook to create a National Rifle Association of Canada. However, during his October 2017 by-election campaign, Lloyd stated that his views had changed since 2009; he now favours a "commitment to cost-effective gun control programs designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals while respecting the rights of law-abiding Canadians to own and use firearms responsibly."

Feminazis Lloyd used the term 'feminazis' while commenting on a Facebook post regarding Guelph University's 2009 decision to close its women studies program. It was something he since regretted saying; Lloyd said in October 2017 that it "is not a term he would use today".

On the removal of historical monuments In 2015 he commented on a Facebook post referencing an article from the Russia Today website opposing the removal of a 1945 memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Baltimore, stating that despite being on the wrong side of the Civil War "his actions at the end of the war did much to heal and unite a deeply divided nation".

Electoral record