Cleveland Allaby is a Canadian lawyer

Lawyer

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 and politician

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He ran for the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the riding of Fredericton

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 as a Progressive Conservative

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 in the 1997 election

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 losing to incumbent Andy Scott by a margin of 34% to 30% in part due to vote splitting between the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party of Canada

Reform Party of Canada

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. Later in 1997, Allaby contested the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

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 losing to Bernard Lord

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 who would go on to win the 1999 provincial election

New Brunswick general election, 1999

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Allaby was the subject of some controversy when the opposition Liberals

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 complained that he had received an untendered contract in excess of $100,000 to do consulting work for Lord's government http://www.gnb.ca/legis/business/pastsessions/54/54%2D4/xrepbudgetsp%2De.asp.

His name became very prominent in the media however following the February 17, 2006 decision of Michael Malley

Michael Malley

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 to leave the Conservative caucus

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 in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

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 leaving Lord with a minority government

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. Lord said that Malley had demanded that he "appoint his friend Cleveland Allaby as judge of the province of New Brunswick" as a condition of staying in caucus. Allaby claimed he had nothing to do with this and demanded a personal apology of Lord. http://www.cbc.ca/nb/story/nb_allabyangry20060220.html