James Stewart Edwards

James (Jim) Stewart Edwards (born 1936) is a former Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 general election as a Progressive Conservative from Alberta. He served as a parliamentary secretary to several ministers in the Brian Mulroney government. Stewart was a candidate at the 1993 Tory leadership convention placing third and was appointed Chief Government Whip and President of the Treasury Board in the short lived cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell. He lost his seat in that year's 1993 election that reduced the Tories to only two MPs in the House.