Harold Glenn Albrecht (born October 15, 1949, in Kitchener, Ontario) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga from 2006 until 2019.
[1] He defeated the incumbent Liberal MP, Lynn Myers, by just over 1,000 votes in the 2006 federal election to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.
[2] Albrecht owns a hobby farm in between Petersburg and New Dundee, and he and his wife Betty were married for 40 years.
On the night of May 2, 2011, Betty suffered a brain hemorrhage while they were preparing for his election victory party, and died two days later in hospital.
During his dentistry career, Albrecht also lent his professional skills on many short-term Christian mission trips with the Christian Medical-Dental Society in Honduras and Dominican Republic, as well as trips to Venezuela, Colombia, Zambia, Nepal, and India.
[2] In 1999, Albrecht left his dentistry practice to found and pastor Pathway Community Church in the Doon area of Kitchener.
Albrecht pastored the church until 2005, when he announced a leave of absence to seek the Conservative Party nomination in his riding.
On November 21, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named Albrecht Deputy Government Whip.
Albrecht is also the founder and chair of the BioCaucus, a group of MPs who work to promote the production of agricultural and renewable technologies.