John Turmel

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Turmel
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1951(1951-02-22)
Age	73
Birthplace	Rouyn-Noranda
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Turmel Biography

John Turmel is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 22, 1951 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. Turmel’s great-grandfather, Adelard Turmel, supported the Social Credit Party of Canada since its founding at the time of its founding in 1935. He taught his belief in the social credit financial theories to his children. The Turmel brother Raymond Turmel, has also fought to run for office in the public sector on numerous occasions.

His effort to legalize gambling, and the fame he gained from it, coupled with his family’s history of social credit philosophy has led Turmel to run for office on the level of the federal government for the first time, at 28. He ran with an unaffiliated candidacy for Ottawa West in the May 1979 federal election. In that election, Turmel ran as the self-proclaimed “champion of hookers, gamblers and dope smokers” in an election campaign where he claimed that the issue of interest on money, also known as usury as well as the unstable financial system and pledged that he would “abolish interest rates”. He won 193 votes.

Turmel, an electrical engineering graduate, who lists his occupation as “professional gambler” was active in the Social Credit Party of Canada and the Social Credit Party of Ontario in the 1980s, and founded the Christian Credit Party in the 1980s, the Abolitionist Party of Canada in the 1990s, and the Pauper Party of Ontario in 2011. He wears a trade-mark white construction helmet when campaigning, and calls himself “the Engineer”. The colour of his helmet is said to not only refer to the white construction helmets worn by engineers and architects on construction sites, but also to the berets blanc (white berets), the nickname of the Pilgrims of Saint Michael, a radical monetarist faction within the Quebec social credit movement.

In the March 1981 provincial election, Turmel ran as a Social Credit candidate in Ottawa Centre, while his brother Raymond ran for the party in Ottawa South and Serge Girard, Dale Alkerton and Andrew Dynowski ran in neighbouring ridings. It was reported that he became interim leader of the Ontario Social Credit Party in early March, although it is not clear if other members of the party agreed.

After participating in the every Canadian general election from 1979 until 2008, Turmel didn’t participate in the federal election of 2011. Turmel, however, stated that he was willing to be prime minister should he be offered the job by the elected parliamentarians as per William Aberhart’s rise to prime ministership of Alberta in 1935, if his Engineer’s Dream Team of chosen alternative candidates from other parties were elected.

John Turmel Net Worth

John Turmel is one of the richest Politician from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Turmel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John C. Turmel (born on February 22nd 1951) is a frequent contestant for election in Canada According to Guinness World Records holds the records for the most votes contests and the most elections lost. He contesting 100 elections and losing 99. Another race was a by-election, which was preempted by an General election calling.

Turmel earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering electrical from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1976, with a focus on the mathematical aspects of gambling. He was appointed a Teaching Assistant to Walter Schneider in the course until 1978, when he was dismissed after he conducted a widely known Blackjack “21” game in the Faculty Club. The following year, he was sentenced to his first conviction in connection with the operation of an unlicensed gaming establishment in order to play Blackjack games from home. It was in 1981 that Turmel got convicted, and was sentenced to prison for 21 days for operating a gaming establishment and playing Blackjack. He was able to appeal, but got the sentence reduced to 100 hours of community service in accordion games at old-age residences. in 1991 Turmel was found guilty by a jury at Gatineau, Quebec, of operating a common gaming establishment and sentenced to four months in prison. After a month Turmel became Chair of the Ottawa- Carleton Regional Municipality in prison, securing around 3500 votes. The year 1993 was aspect of Project Robin Hood, Ottawa and Ontario Provincial Police raided the private casino with 28 tables in Turmel in the largest gambling house rescue that has occurred in Canadian history. Turmel was found guilty by a jury and sentenced for 200 hours of community time playing accordion at retirement homes.

He ran again as an independent in the February 1980 federal election in Ottawa Centre. His application to run as a Social Credit Party of Canada candidate was rejected by party leader Fabien Roy. He won 64 votes. The Social Credit Party lost its remaining seats in the election.

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By 1983, the Christian Credit Party appears to have died. Turmel said he disbanded his party because he realized voters would not give it a chance. “People won’t vote for a new party. They’ve been voting for one colour all their lives. The only way to do anything is to get into a recognized party.”

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. John Turmel celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.

In the months before the 1984 federal election, Turmel attempted to take over the Ottawa branch of the fledgling Green Party of Canada by signing up new members, seeking the party’s nomination in Ottawa Centre. After the party had appointed a candidate in Ottawa Centre rather than hold nominations, Turmel claimed that it was undemocratic and called a meeting at which all Greens were invited to elect candidates to run in various Ottawa area ridings under the Green Party banner. The party rejected those nominations, and then held its own meeting to nominate new candidates.

Top Facts about John Turmel

1. John Turmel has run in over 100 Canadian elections.
2. He holds the Guinness World Record for most elections contested.
3. Turmel is a proponent of alternative currencies and monetary reform.
4. He has been arrested multiple times for his activism.
5. Turmel ran for mayor of Ottawa in 2018, receiving less than 1% of the vote.
6. He advocates for legalizing marijuana and gambling.
7. Turmel has run under various party affiliations, including the Abolitionist Party and the Pauper Party of Ontario.
8. He claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine.
9. Turmel once won $10,000 on a game show called “Super Password.”
10. He has been featured in numerous documentaries about politics and activism in Canada.