Hare was the
Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for the
Winnipeg-area riding of
St. Boniface for seven months. He was elected in a 1978
by-election in what was considered a safe
Liberal seat after losing to
Revenue minister Joseph Guay in the
1974 federal election. Hare won in part by capitalizing on the dislike of
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by
anglophone voters, in a riding that has a significant
francophone population and claimed that
French Canadians followed instructions from their parish priests on how to vote. Hare's victory was the first time the Tories won the riding since the
1958 election landslide by
John Diefenbaker's Conservatives. He died in Winnipeg in 2009. ==References==