Editing Merv Tweed (section)

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name         = Mervin C. Tweed
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age |1955|8|6}}
| birth_place  = [[Medora, Manitoba]]
| death_date   = 
| death_place  = 
| profession   = Automobile dealer <!-- profession before entering politics -->
| party        = [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]]
| residence    = [[Brandon, Manitoba]]
| office1      = [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Brandon—Souris]]
| term_start1  = June 28, 2004
| term_end1    = August 31, 2013
| predecessor1 = [[Rick Borotsik]]
| successor1   = [[Larry Maguire]]
| office2      = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]] for [[Turtle Mountain (electoral district)|Turtle Mountain]]
| term_start2  = April 25, 1995
| term_end2    = May 25, 2004
| predecessor2 = [[Bob Rose (politician)|Bob Rose]]
| successor2   = [[Cliff Cullen]]
| office3      = [[Minister of Agriculture (Canada)|Chair of the Standing Committee on <br />Agriculture]]
| minister3    = [[Gerry Ritz]]
| term_start3  = 25 September 2012
| term_end3    = 23 October 2013
| predecessor3 = [[Larry Miller (Canadian politician)|Larry Miller]]
| successor3   = [[Bev Shipley]]
| religion     = 
}}
'''Mervin C. Tweed''' (born August 6, 1955) is a retired politician in [[Manitoba]], Canada. He represented [[Brandon—Souris]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 2004 to August 31, 2013. Prior to that he was a member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]] from 1995 to 2004, representing the constituency of [[Turtle Mountain (electoral district)|Turtle Mountain]].<ref name=parlinfo>{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9511|nolist=yes}}</ref> He was the president of Omnitrax, the American rail company that was responsible for the Churchill rail line. After letting the rail line fall into disrepair and ignoring Federal orders to repair it, the American owners sold it to the Federal Government of Canada who then transferred it to a consortium of First Nations. The rebranded Arctic Gateway has since been revitalized and operates to this day after the neglect it went through under American management.

Tweed was born in Medora, Manitoba,<ref name=parlinfo/> and was educated at [[Brandon University]]. He operated a used car dealership for seventeen years, and was for a time an executive member of the [[Killarney, Manitoba|Killarney]] and Area Recreation Committee.