Barry Chase is an Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 politician.

He ran for the Alberta Alliance Party

Alberta Alliance Party

The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...

 in the 2004 provincial election

Alberta general election, 2004

The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 22, 2004 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

 in Calgary Shaw

Calgary Shaw

Calgary Shaw is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

. He ended up finishing third. He is currently president of the Calgary Shaw

Calgary Shaw

Calgary Shaw is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

 riding association for the Alberta Alliance.

Prior to running for the Alliance, he was an original member of the Reform Party of Canada

Reform Party of Canada

The Reform Party of Canada was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party....

. He worked with Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election...

 on his first campaign back in 1988, in the Calgary West

Calgary West

Calgary West is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1953, and since 1979. It is located in the western part of the City of Calgary....

 federal riding.

Prior to joining Reform, he was a member of the Western Canada Concept

Western Canada Concept

The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation.The party argued that Western...

 but decided not to run for the party.

He has a political rivalry with Alberta Liberal Party

Alberta Liberal Party

The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

 Calgary Varsity

Calgary Varsity

Calgary-Varsity is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It comprises the communities of Varsity, Dalhousie, Brentwood, Banff Trail, parts of Silver Springs, and Charleswood .The Member of the...

 MLA, Harry B. Chase

Harry B. Chase

Harry B. Chase is a Canadian politician. He is a provincial MLA as a member of the Alberta Liberal Party.-Early life:...

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His son Travis Chase also ran for the Alberta Alliance in the 2004 election in Calgary Fort

Calgary Fort

Calgary Fort is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.The Electoral District is named after historical Fort Calgary.The district lies in the Central SE of the city....

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