john henry reimer born july 16 1936 is a canadian politician he served in the house of commons of canada from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1993 as a member of the progressive conservative partyreimer was born to a mennonite family in kitchener ontario he was educated at the university of toronto the ontario college of education and the university of waterloo and holds bachelor of arts master of arts and bachelor of education degrees he worked as an educator before entering political life and served on the board of governors of wilfrid laurier university for four yearshe was first elected to the house of commons in the 1979 election defeating liberal candidate david cooke by over 6000 votes in kitchener he served as a backbench supporter of joe clarks minority government and lost to liberal peter lang by 1512 votes in the 1980 election which was called after clarks government lost a motion of no confidencereimer was returned to the commons in the 1984 election defeating lang by over 10000 votes as the progressive conservatives won a landslide majority government under brian mulroney he was reelected by a narrower margin in 1988 and served for nine years as a backbench supporter of the mulroney and kim campbell governments in 1987 his private motion to include property rights in the canadian bill of rights was approved by the housereimer was defeated in 1993 finishing third against historian and liberal candidate john english he sought a return to parliament in the newly constituted riding of kitchener centre during the 1997 election but finished a distant second against new liberal candidate karen redmanreimer was on the rightwing of the progressive conservative party and left the party to join the newly formed canadian alliance in 2000 he endorsed stockwell day for the partys leadership and campaigned under the alliances banner in the 2000 federal election he lost to liberal lynn myers in waterloowellingtonreimer is a social conservative and in 2000 called for a law banning abortion in canadain 2004 he endorsed frank klees to lead the progressive conservative party of ontario