Dane Lloyd 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 Conservative Interim Leader the Honourable Rona Ambrose. Lloyd represents the constituency of Sturgeon River—Parkland as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Prior to his election to Parliament, Lloyd served as a special assistant to then Minister of International Trade, the Honourable Ed Fast and later as parliamentary advisor to St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper. Lloyd continues to serve as a Canadian Armyreservist in the Governor General's Foot Guards located in Ottawa. He currently holds a commission as an infantry officer with the rank of lieutenant. In 2009, at the age of 18 he announced his intention on Facebook to create a National Rifle Association of Canada. However, during his 2017 by-election campaign, Lloyd stated that his views had changed since 2009 and 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." Lloyd used the term 'feminazis' while commenting on a Facebook post regarding Guelph University's then-decision to close its women studies program—something he since regrets and says "is not a term he would use today". 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." Lloyd was born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised outside of Edmonton, Alberta. He attended and graduated from Edmonton Christian High School in 2009. In 2014, he graduated from Trinity Western University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science. While completing his undergraduate studies, Lloyd was elected vice president of Academic Affairs for the Trinity Western University Student Association. He attended the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa, and served as President of the Trinity Western Model United Nations Society. Dane attended a BaptistChurch in St. Albert, Alberta and worships regularly with the Anglican Network in Canada denomination.
St. Albert residents Lyle and Marie McCann went missing in July 2010 on a road trip from their home town to Chiliwack BC. Their charred motor home was discovered a few days later, resulting in a search that led to the arrest of Travis Vader for their murder. While Vader is 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 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 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.”
