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Gilles Bisson
Gilles C. Bisson (born May 14, 1957) is a Franco-Ontarian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 until his defeat in the 2022 Ontario general election. From 1999 to 2022 he represented the northern riding of Timmins. Background Bisson is Franco-Ontarian. He was a labour union organizer, who worked for the Ontario Federation of Labour (of which he was the Northeast Director for a time). A licensed private pilot, Bisson owns a small aircraft which he uses to fly between communities in his far-flung riding, the legislative seat in Toronto and elsewhere. Bisson was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets with #10 Timmins Kiwanis Squadron where he attained the rank of Flight Sergeant. He also served in both the Canadian Armed Forces "reg force" in 1974/1975 and as a reservist with the Algonquin Regiment B Company. Bisson is married, is a father of two daughters, and is a grandfather of four. Politics B ...
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George Pirie (politician)
George Pirie is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Timmins as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC; ), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party, or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada. During its uninterr .... He defeated Gilles Bisson who was first elected in 1990, taking the seat from the Ontario New Democratic Party for the first time in 32 years. At the time of his election as MPP, Pirie had been Mayor of Timmins since 2018. Electoral history References Living people Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Mayors of Timmins Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century mayors of places in Ontario 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Members of the Execu ...
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Ontario Federation Of Labour
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5% of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area of all the Canadian provinces and territories. It is home to the nation's capital, Ottawa, and its most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast. To the south, it is bordered by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States follows rivers and lakes: from the westerly Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system. There is ...
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2011 Ontario General Election
Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle *''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff *''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music * Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label * Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' (Reamonn album), 2010 * ''Eleven'' (Martina McBride album), 2011 * ''Eleven'' ...
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2007 Ontario General Election
The 2007 Ontario general election was held on October 10, 2007, to elect members ( MPPs) of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Premier Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular vote. The election saw the third-lowest voter turnout in Ontario provincial elections, setting a then record for the lowest voter turnout with 52.8% of people who were eligible voted. This broke the previous record of 54.7% in the 1923 election, but would end up being surpassed in the 2011 and 2022 elections. As a result of legislation passed by the Legislature in 2004, election dates are now fixed by formula so that an election is held approximately four years after the previous election, unless the government is defeated by a vote of "no confidence" in the Legislature. Previously, the governing party had considerable flexibility to determine the date of an election any ...
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2003 Ontario General Election
The 2003 Ontario general election was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the province of Ontario, Canada. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves in the wake of supporting polls for the governing Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the days following the 2003 North American blackout. The election resulted in a majority government won by the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty. Leadup to the campaign In 1995, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party under Mike Harris came from third place to upset the front-running Ontario Liberal Party under Lyn McLeod and the governing Ontario New Democratic Party under Bob Rae to form a majority government. Over the following two terms, the Harris government moved to cut personal income tax rates by 30%, closed almost 40 hospitals to increase efficiency, cut the Ministry of the Environment staff in half, ...
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List Of Mayors Of Timmins, Ontario
This is a list of mayors of Timmins, Ontario. * W.H. Wilson – 1912–1916 * J.P. McLaughlin – 1917–1918 * Dr. J.A. McInnis – 1918–1925 * E.G. Dickson- 1926 * E.L. Longmore – 1927–1928 * G.S. Drew – 1929–1933 * R. Richardson – 1934–1935 * J.P. Bartleman – 1936–1939 * J. Emile Brunette – 1940–1947 * Karl Eyre – 1948–1949 * P. Fay – 1950–1951 * J. Wilf Spooner – 1952–1955 * Leo Del Villano – 1956–1959 * J. Emile Brunette – 1960 * Leo Del Villano – 1961–1966 * J.J. Evans – 1967–1968 * Leo Del Villano – 1968–1977 * Michael Doody – 1977–1980 * Victor M. Power – 1980–1988 * Dennis Welin – 1988–1991 * Victor M. Power – 1991–2000 * Jamie Lim – 2000–2003 * Victor M. Power – 2003–2006 * Tom Laughren – 2006–2014 * Steve Black – 2014–2018 * George Pirie – 2018–2022 * Kristin Murray – 2022 (acting) * Michelle Boileau – 2022–present Until 1960, years represent those annual councils ...
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Michael Doody
Michael J. J. Doody (born September 29, 1936) is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Timmins, Ontario from 1977 to 1980. Early life In 1959, Doody moved from his hometown of Val d'Or, Quebec to Timmins to work at CKGB-FM. In 1974, Doody began working at CFCL-TV and hosted a talk and current affairs show, ''Midday''. Municipal politics Doody was elected as a town councillor in 1970. He then ran for Mayor in 1976, defeating incumbent, Leo Del Villano, and served in this position from 1977 to 1980; two terms of office. He then exited politics until 1985, when he was elected as a councillor and remained in this position until 1996. In 2005, Councillor Yves Malette left council and the mayor and city council asked Doody to step in for his ward. He was subsequently re-elected as a councillor in the 2006 municipal election, and retained this office in the 2010 municipal election.
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1999 Ontario General Election
The 1999 Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 37th Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province Ontario. The governing Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Premier Mike Harris, was re-elected to a second majority government. The last time the Legislative Assembly of Ontario had experienced a reduced number of seats heading into an election was in 1934 Ontario general election, 1934. Previously, the province's electoral district (Canada), riding boundaries were different from those used in federal elections. In the 1999 election, as a consequence of an Act passed in 1996, provincial riding boundaries were redrawn to precisely match federal ridings, resulting in 27 fewer seats in the legislature. Notably, in a number of ridings this resulted in incumbent MPPs directly facing each other in the new seats; in a few ridings, incumbent MPPs from the same party even had to compete against each othe ...
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1995 Ontario General Election
The 1995 Ontario general election was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada. The writs for the election were drawn up on April 28, 1995. The governing Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party, led by Premier Bob Rae, was defeated by voters, who were angry with the actions of the Rae government, such as its unpopular hiring quotas and the Social Contract (Ontario), Social Contract legislation in 1993. These policies caused the NDP to lose much of its base in Trade union, organized labour, further reducing support for the party. At the 1993 Canadian federal election, 1993 federal election, the NDP tumbled to less than seven percent support, and lost all 11 of its federal seats in Ontario. By the time the writs were drawn up for the 1995 provincial election, it was obvious that the NDP would not be reelected. Riding name change Acts were passed in 1991 and 1993, prov ...
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North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (, TLCAN; , ALÉNA), referred to colloquially in the Anglosphere as NAFTA, ( ) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994, and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada. The NAFTA trade bloc formed one of the largest trade blocs in the world by gross domestic product. The impetus for a North American free trade zone began with U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who made the idea part of his Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, 1980, 1980 presidential campaign. After the signing of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the administrations of U.S. president George H. W. Bush, Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney agreed to negotiate what became NAFTA. Each submitted the agreement for ratificatio ...
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Bob Rae
Robert Keith Rae (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and Interim leader (Canada), interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to Government of Canada, federal (Broadview, Broadview-Greenwood, Toronto Centre) and Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), provincial (York South) parliaments. Rae was a New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament from 1978 to 1982. He then moved to provincial politics, serving as leader of the Ontario NDP from February 7, 1982, to June 22, 1996. After leading his party to victory in the 1990 Ontario general election, 1990 provincial election he served as the List of premiers of Ontario, 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1, 1990, to June 26, ...
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Parliamentary Assistant
In British politics and some Commonwealth nations, a parliamentary assistant is an unelected partisan staff member employed by a Member of Parliament (MP) to assist them with their parliamentary duties. Parliamentary assistants usually work at the House of Commons in the UK Parliament or in their MP's constituency office. Duties The duties of parliamentary assistants vary significantly depending on the MPs they work for and their position in Parliament; but generally they facilitate the day-to-day working life of their MP and make it as efficient as possible. The office in which a parliamentary assistant is based may determine the type of work they do. Alternative titles and pay MPs may distinguish between parliamentary assistants in terms of seniority. For example, some MPs differentiate between parliamentary assistants and senior parliamentary assistants. Parliamentary assistants may also be called parliamentary researchers if they are principally tasked with conducting r ...
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