- Rick Anderson
:"If you are looking for the former Major League Baseball player, see
Rick Anderson (baseball) ."Rick Anderson is a prominent Canadian political strategist and businessman. In the 1980s, he worked for the
Liberal Party of Canada . In the late 1980s and 1990s, he changed party affiliations and orchestrated many of the policies of theReform Party of Canada under its leaderPreston Manning .Following the morphing of Reform into its new incarnation as the
Canadian Alliance in 2000, Anderson ceased to play a direct role in policy formulation.Anderson gained some attention in the 2006 Canadian federal election campaign. The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had a recurring feature throughout the campaign entitled "Campaign Confidential", in which an unidentified "former campaigner", who was actually Anderson, provided detailed written analyses of the campaign which were then read by an actor on television. The identity of Anderson as the analyst was revealed onJanuary 24 2006 , the day after the election.Anderson is a supporter of
proportional representation and currently sits on the board ofFair Vote Canada . He served as campaign chair of the YES side in the failed 2007 provincial referendum.Since 2004, Anderson has served as president and CEO of
Zip.ca , a Canadian DVD mail rental company.External links
* [http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.10.98/news_views/feds10.html Profile on Anderson] , EYE magazine,
December 10 1998
* [http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/analysiscommentary/campaignconfidential.html Campaign Confidential website] ,CBC News ,January 24 2006
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