Status:

Member (founding member)

Address:

81 Metcalfe St.

Suite 400

Ottawa Ontario K1P 6M8

Telephone:

00 1 613 237 0740

Fax:

00 1 613 235 7208

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.liberal.ca/

Leader:

Rt Hon. Jean Chrétien

President:

Steven LeDrew

Secretary-General:

Treasurer:

Joe Thornley

Director:

Tierry Mercer

Press Officer:

Auréle Gervais

Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee:

Bill Graham

Responsible for Women's Issues:

Ms Hedy Fry MP and Mobina Jaffer

- direct telephone number:

00 1 613 996 0205

- direct fax number:

00 1 613 996 2551

Party Newspaper:

The Liberal Times/ La Presse Libérale

- editor:

Auréle Gervais

Date of the last general Elections:

June 1997

- Number of seats in parliament:

House of Commons: 155/301 Senate: 51/104

Membership:

350000

Parliamentary Group:

House of Commons

Ottawa

Ontario K1A 0A6

Government or Opposition:

In government

- Minister(s):

Jean Chretién (Prime Minister); Arthur Eggleton (Defence); Lloyd Axworthy (Foreign Affairs); David Collenette (Transport).