Dalton McGuinty - Member of Provincial Parliament

The Honourable Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. The son of politician and professor Dalton McGuinty Sr. and full-time nurse Elizabeth McGuinty, McGuinty grew up in an large Irish Canadian Catholic family with nine brothers and sisters. He earned a science degree from McMaster University and a law degree from the ...

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His father, Dalton Sr., served as Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Ottawa South until his death in 1990. An often-told anecdote relates that Dalton Sr.'s ten children met to decide who among them should run to replace their father and selected Dalton Jr, "since they already had 2000 signs with that name on it in the garage." Dalton Jr. won the Ontario Liberal Party's nomination for Ottawa South for the provincial election of 1990, and was elected to the Legisla ...

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McGuinty's second term as opposition leader was more successful than his first. With the Liberals consolidated as the primary opposition to Harris's Progressive Conservatives, McGuinty was able to present his party as the "government in waiting". He hired a more skilled group of advisors and drafted former cabinet minister Greg Sorbara as party president. McGuinty also rebuilt the party's fundraising operation, launching the Ontario Liberal Fund. In preparation for the 2003 election, the party adopted a platform that emphasized lowering clas ...

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McGuinty's supporters in his 1996 leadership bid included John Manley, Murray Elston and Robert Chiarelli. He was elected leader at the party's 1996 leadership convention in a surprise victory over front-runner Gerard Kennedy. McGuinty thus became the Leader of the Opposition at Queen's Park. Kennedy, a former head of Toronto's Daily Bread food bank, was popular on the left-wing of the party, while McGuinty built his core support on its pro-business right-wing. At the leadership convention, McGuinty came to head an "anybody but Kenned ...

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In late 2004, John Tory was chosen to replace Ernie Eves as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. A principal secretary to former PC Premier Bill Davis, Tory is widely regarded as more moderate than Mike Harris and the rural MPPs who make up the majority of his caucus. Some believe that Tory could win the support of centrist voters who supported the Liberals in 2003. Conversely, some argue Tory's centrism could alienate his party's right-wing, and prevent the Progressive Conser ...

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McGuinty formally took office as Premier and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs on October 23, 2003. The new government called the Legislature back in session in late 2003. The government brought in auto insurance reforms (including a price cap), rolled-back a series of corporate and personal tax cuts that had been scheduled for 2004, passed legislation that enshrined publicly-funded medicare into provincial law, hired more meat and water inspectors, opened up the provincially-owned electricity companies to Freedom of Information la ...

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McGuinty's supporters in his 1996 leadership bid included John Manley, Murray Elston and Robert Chiarelli. He was elected leader of the at the party's 1996 leadership convention in a surprise victory over front-runner Gerard Kennedy. McGuinty thus became the Leader of the Opposition at Queen's Park. Kennedy, a former head of Toronto's Daily Bread food bank, was popular on the left-wing of the party, while McGuinty built his core support on its pro-business right-wing. At the leadership convention, McGuinty came to head an "anybody but ...

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The McGuinty government brought forward a number of initiatives in the fall of 2004. These included legislation allowing restaurant patrons to bring their own wine, banning junk food in public schools, outlawing smoking in public places, and requiring students to stay in school until age 18. Following a series of high-profile maulings by pit bulls, the government also moved to ban the dogs. During early 2005, McGuinty called the Legislature back for a rare winter session to debate and pass several high-profile bills. The government le ...

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