Karl Arvid Morin-Strom (born June 27, 1952) is a former politician in Ontario,
Canada
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. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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from 1985 to 1990 as a member of the
New Democratic Party
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Background
Strom was born in
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He attended
Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational School. Showing an aptitude for mathematics, he participated in contests provincially and nationally at both the Junior (grades 9–11) and Senior (grades 12–13) levels. He was the first ever winner of the
Canadian Mathematical Olympiad in 1969. He continued his education at
Harvard University
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and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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in
Cambridge
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, receiving a
PhD
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from the latter institution in 1977. His dissertation was entitled "Witt Theorems for Lattices over Discrete Valuation Rings". He worked as a corporate planner and financial analyst.
In 1972, he married Bernadette Morin and he changed his last name to Morin-Strom. Together, they raised three daughters, including Marie Morin-Strom, who unsuccessfully ran for the NDP in the
Sault Ste. Marie riding in the
2021 Canadian federal election
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Politics
He ran for the federal
New Democratic Party
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in the
1984 election, but lost to
Progressive Conservative Jim Kelleher in the
Sault Ste. Marie riding by 2,409 votes.
The following year, he defeated
Progressive Conservative Russ Ramsay
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in the riding of
Sault Ste. Marie in the
1985 Ontario election by 1,069 votes.
Morin-Strom was re-elected in the
1987 election.
In 1985 he was appointed as his party's critic for Industry, Trade and Technology.
In 1987 he added critic for Transportation and Financial Institutions to his portfolio. He decided not to run in the
1990 election to protest the Sault Ste. Marie decision that made the city an English language only municipality.
Later life
During his retirement, he has learned German and has extensively travelled Europe.
References
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1952 births
Canadian people of Swedish descent
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs
Politicians from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario