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'Gary Vincent Lunn', PC, LL.B, MP (born May 8, 1957, in Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands and Minister of Natural Resources in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He was the Official Opposition Critic for Métis and Non-Status Indians, Minister of State for Northern Development, and Critic of the Secretary of State for Human Resources Development. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
He was first elected to Parliament in the federal election of 1997 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada and was re-elected in 2000 as a member of the Canadian Alliance. In April 2001, Lunn was one of the first Alliance MPs to openly criticize the leadership of Stockwell Day, and was suspended from caucus in May of the same year as a result. He briefly sat with the Democratic Representative Caucus under the leadership of Chuck Strahl, but in November 2001, he left to rejoin the Alliance after Day agreed to hold a leadership race. He was permitted to return to the party in January 2002, during the leadership of John Reynolds, following Day's resignation.
In the federal election of 2006, he won re-election against Liberal Candidate Sheila Orr and NDP candidate Jennifer Burgis.
On February 6, 2006, he was sworn in as Natural Resources Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. With his appointment to Cabinet he was sworn in as a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada giving him the right to use the honorific "The Honourable" and the Post Nominal Letters "PC" for life.

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★ Gary Lunn's Official Website

★ Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament