Cleveland Allaby

Who is Cleveland Allaby?

Cleveland Allaby is a Canadian lawyer and politician.

He ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Fredericton as a Progressive Conservative in the 1997 election losing to incumbent Andy Scott by a margin of 34% to 30% in part due to vote splitting between the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party of Canada. Later in 1997, Allaby contested the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick losing to Bernard Lord who would go on to win the 1999 provincial election.

Allaby was the subject of some controversy when the opposition Liberals complained that he had received an untendered contract in excess of $100,000 to do consulting work for Lord's government.

His name became very prominent in the media however following the February 17, 2006 decision of Michael Malley to leave the Conservative caucus in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick leaving Lord with a minority government. Lord said that Malley had demanded that he "appoint his friend Cleveland Allaby as judge of the province of New Brunswick" as a condition of staying in caucus. Allaby claimed he had nothing to do with this and demanded a personal apology of Lord.