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The Honourable Barbara Jane (Bobbie) Sparrow is a former Canadian politician.
Sparrow, a Registered Nurse and businessperson, was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 federal election that brought the Progressive Conservatives to power under Brian Mulroney. The Tory Member of Parliament for Calgary South was re-elected in the 1988 general election for the new riding of Calgary Southwest. In 1991 she was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Health and Welfare. When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as Prime Minister of Canada in 1993 she brought Sparrow into the Cabinet as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Minister of Forestry however both Sparrow and the Campbell government were defeated in the subsequent 1993 federal election that reduced the Tories to only two seats in the House of Commons with Sparrow losing her seat to Reform Party leader Preston Manning.
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