John Harold Hare (June 8, 1920 – March 23, 2009) was a Canadian politician, agrologist and professor.
Hare was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for the Winnipeg-area riding of St. Boniface for seven months.
[1] Hare won in part by capitalizing on the dislike of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by anglophone voters,[2] in a riding that has a significant francophone population[3] and claimed that French Canadians followed instructions from their parish priests on how to vote.
[4] Hare's victory was the first time the Tories won the riding since the 1958 election landslide by John Diefenbaker's Conservatives.
[1] Despite the defeat of Trudeau's government by Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives in the 1979 federal election, Hare would not serve long as an MP as Liberal challenger Robert Bockstael won the St. Boniface seat back.