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Alberta were changed. Raymond, where Hillyer lived, was moved from the Lethbridge riding into the newly expanded Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner riding. In 2014, upon learning that the current Member of Parliament for the area was stepping
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Hillyer received his master's degree in political economy from
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