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Doug Martindale (born May 25, 1947) is a politician in
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, Canada. He was a member of the
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from 1990 to 2011, serving as a member of the
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.


Early life and career

Martindale was born in
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,
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. He holds a
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degree from
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(1973) and a
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degree from
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(1976). He is an ordained
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minister, and has practiced in
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(1976–80) and at a mission in north-end
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(1980–90). He has been involved in several outreach programs among Winnipeg's poor and aboriginal communities, and remains active in efforts to combat homelessness. He helped to convert St. John's United Church into a co-op apartment complex, and was a founding member of Inner City Voice newspaper. In the legislature, he has served as Chair of the Justice, Social and Economic Development Committees. In 1973, he married Carol Wachniak. The couple has two children. Martindale defeated incumbent MLA
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to win the
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nomination for the northwest Winnipeg division of Burrows in the 1988 provincial election. He was defeated in the general election by
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candidate
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. The seat had previously been regarded as safe for the NDP, but local divisions and a provincial swing away from the party contributed to Martindale's defeat.


Opposition member

NDP support had recovered somewhat by the 1990 election, and Martindale was able to defeat Chornopyski in a rematch. The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under
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, and Martindale served in the
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as his party's critic for family services and housing. He opposed the Filmon government's cuts to child welfare and education support, and called for an inquiry into allegations of emotional abuse and unethical treatment at the Osborne House battered women's shelter. He also criticized the government's introduction of a "
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fraud hotline", describing it as "punitive and unnecessary" and noting that Manitoba lost far more money each year to income tax fraud. Nonetheless, Martindale supported the government's early intervention policy as a means of keeping more children with their families and out of the supervision of Child and Family Services. Martindale was re-elected in the 1995 general election, as the Progressive Conservatives won a second majority government across the province. He continued to serve as family services critic, and opposed another round of child welfare cuts introduced by the Filmon government later in the year. When the government introduced further benefit cuts of up to 10% for single, employable people, Martindale described Filmon's administration as the "cruelest, most heartless government in Canada". In 1999, he and fellow NDP MLA
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organized consultative meetings of parents and day-care providers.


Government backbencher

The New Democratic Party won a majority government in the 1999 general election under the leadership of
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. Martindale was easily re-elected in Burrows, defeating controversial
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Mike Babinsky of the
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. He served as a
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supporter of the Doer government. In 2002, he was appointed to a four-member task force seeking public input on the future of the province's mining and petroleum sectors. There was some speculation that he would be appointed to cabinet after his re-election in
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, but this did not occur. In 2004, Martindale brought forward a parliamentary motion urging the provincial government to declare the last Saturday of November as Day of the Ukrainian Famine/Genocide, commemorating the victims of the
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of 1932-33. He was an international observer to the
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in December 2004. Martindale was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election. In 2011, he announced that he would not be seeking reelection. Martindale said that he would be teaching at
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and
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, and would return to preaching as a United Church minister.


Federal politics

Martindale supported
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's bid to become leader of the federal
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in 1995, and endorsed
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in 2003.


Trivia

*Martindale played the role of
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during a 1994 commemoration of the 1919
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. *Since 2001, Martindale has taken part in a challenge organized by
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to fast and pray during the
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holy month of
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. He has called for greater dialogue between
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and Muslim groups.Carol Sanders, "Visit to mosque opens eyes", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 15 November 2001, B4.


Electoral record

All electoral information is taken from
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. Expenditures refer to candidate expenses.


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Party biography
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