"James Stewart "Jim" Edwards", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC is a former Canada/Canadian politician.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the Canadian federal election, 1984/1984 general election as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada/Progressive Conservative from Alberta. He served as a parliamentary secretary to several ministers in the government of Prime Minister of Canada/Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Following Mulroney's resignation as PC leader and prime minister in 1993, Edwards was a candidate at the Progressive Conservative leadership conventions/PC leadership convention held to choose a successor. He placed third.

He was appointed Chief Government whip (politics)/Whip and President of the Treasury Board (Canada)/President of the Treasury Board in the short lived Canadian cabinet/cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell. He lost his seat in that year's Canadian federal election, 1993/1993 election that reduced the Tories to only two Member of Parliament/Members of Parliament in the House.

Edwards was the President and CEO of Economic Development Edmonton from 1998 to 2002 and served as the Chair of the Board of Governors at the University of Alberta from March 2002 to 2006.

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