Clive Tanner

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1934–2022)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|01|07}}

| birth_place = Edmonton, Middlesex, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|09|09|1934|01|07}}

| death_place = Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

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| office1 = Member of the Yukon Territorial Council

| term_start1 = 1970

| term_end1 = 1974

| predecessor1 = Ken McKinnon

| successor1 = riding redistributed

| constituency1 = Whitehorse North

| office2 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

| term_start2 = 1991

| term_end2 = 1996

| constituency2 = Saanich North and the Islands

| predecessor2 = first member

| successor2 = Murray Coell

| party = British Columbia Liberal Party

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Clive Tanner (January 7, 1934 – September 9, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 1996, as a British Columbia Liberal Party member for the constituency of Saanich North and the Islands.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QfwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22+Fax:+%28604%29775-1170.+TANNER,+CLIVE+%28Saanich+North+and+the*%22|title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|year = 1993| publisher=Gale Canada |isbn = 9780921925316}}

Tanner previously lived in Yukon, where he was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council in the 1970s"Two former members defeated as Yukon elects new councillors". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 1970. and served as Minister of Health."B.C. a polarized province despite NDP win". Montreal Gazette, October 19, 1991. After the territory introduced partisan elections to the new Legislative Assembly of Yukon in 1977, Tanner ran as the Yukon Liberal Party candidate for Whitehorse Porter Creek West in the 1978 territorial election, but was not elected to the legislature.

He subsequently lived in Sidney, British Columbia, where he owned bookstores in Sidney and Victoria."Businessman in Liberal race". Vancouver Sun, April 29, 1987. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1986 BC provincial election. He was subsequently a candidate in the BC Liberal Party's 1987 leadership race to succeed Art Lee, but he withdrew from the race in August after sustaining a leg injury."Leadership may be one-man race". The Globe and Mail, August 27, 1987.

Tanner died on September 9, 2022, at his home in Sidney, aged 88.{{cite web|last1=Depner|first1=Wolf|title=Clive Tanner, former MLA and Sidney entrepreneur, dies at the age of 88|url=https://www.vicnews.com/news/clive-tanner-former-mla-and-sidney-entrepreneur-dies-at-the-age-of-88/|website=Victoria News|date=September 12, 2022}}