Ted McMeekin
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Ted McMeekin is a politician residing in Flamborough
Ontario
, Canada
. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
, representing the riding of Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale
for the Liberal Party of Ontario
. McMeekin previously served as the Minister of Consumer Services, and Minister of Government Services
in the in the Liberal
government of Premier
Dalton McGuinty
. Ted McMeekin is the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training Colleges and Universities.
McMeekin holds a Master's Degree
in social work from Wilfrid Laurier University
. He has served as executive director of the Burlington Social Planning Council, and was for a time the chair of part-time studies at Mohawk College
(where he also taught courses). He has also worked on social justice issues for the United Church of Canada
, and was the owner and operator of a small bookstore for eight years.
Before entering provincial politics, McMeekin was a member of the Hamilton City Council
representing Ward 7 (Hamilton Mountain). After retiring from Council, he moved to Flamborough, Ontario
, a rural community which lies on the outskirts of Hamilton
, and later served a term of six years as mayor
. McMeekin was also for a number of years Flamborough's representative on the Hamilton-Wentworth regional council, which the provincial government of Mike Harris
eliminated in 2000 by amalgamating the city and outlying regions into a single political entity. McMeekin was one of the most vocal opponents of this change, noting that it would result in a loss of autonomy for Flamborough.
to be held in ADFA on September 7, 2000 (called following the resignation of Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Toni Skarica
, another vocal opponent of the amalgamation scheme). Although the seat had gone overwhelmingly for the Progressive Conservatives
the previous year, McMeekin managed to defeat PC candidate Priscilla de Villiers
by over 9,000 votes. The Conservatives had spent $211,989 on his competitor, nearly $80,000 in excess of McMeekin's $132,143. Local opposition to amalgamation was generally cited as the reason for this shift.
, McMeekin defeated Tory candidate Mark Mullins by a somewhat reduced margin. He served as parliamentary assistant to John Gerretsen
in his capacity as the Minister responsible for Seniors from October 23, 2003 to September 27, 2004. On September 27, 2004, he was appointed assistant to Jim Watson, the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services
.
, McMeekin is running against Progressive Conservative candidate Chris Corrigan. On October 30, 2007, McMeekin was named a cabinet minister, responsible for Government and Consumer Services.
|Ted McMeekin
|align="right"|20,525
|align="right"|41.5
|align="right"|
|-
|Chris Corrigan
|align="right"|17,219
|align="right"|34.8
|align="right"|
|-
|Juanita Maldonado
|align="right"|6,542
|align="right"|13.2
|align="right"|
|-
|David Januczkowski
|align="right"|4,243
|align="right"|8.6
|align="right"|
|-
|Jim Enos
|align="right"|501
|align="right"|1.0
|align="right"|
|-
|Martin Zaliniak
|align="right"|219
|align="right"|0.4
|align="right"|
|-
|Eileen Butson
|align="right"|129
|align="right"|0.3
|align="right"|
|-
|Sam Zaslavsky
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|0.1
|align="right"|
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 2003
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
(1999)
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
(2000)
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
|Ted McMeekin
|align=right|23,045
|align=right| 47.5
|align=right| +14.0
|align=right| -12.1
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Mark Mullins
|align=right|18,141
|align=right| 37.4
|align=right| -20.7
|align=right| +6.9
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Kelly Hayes
|align=right|5,666
|align=right| 11.7
|align=right| +2.3
|align=right| +4.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Brian Elder Sullivan
|align=right| 903
|align=right| 1.9
|align=right| -
|align=right| -0.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Family Coalition
|Michael Trolly
|align=right| 434
|align=right| 0.9
|align=right| -
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Confederation of Regions
|Richard Butson
|align=right| 293
|align=right| 0.6
|align=right| -
|align=right| -
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|By-election: February 7, 2000
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
|Ted McMeekin
|align=right|19,916
|align=right| 59.6
|align=right| +26.1
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Priscilla De Villiers
|align=right|10,201
|align=right| 30.5
|align=right| -27.6
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Jessica Brennan
|align=right|2,297
|align=right| 6.7
|align=right| -1.5
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Mark Coakley
|align=right| 1,405
|align=right| 4.14
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Independent
|John C. Turmel
|align=right| 80
|align=right| 0.2
|align=right| -
Flamborough
Flamborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north east of Bridlington town centre on the prominent coastal feature of Flamborough Head. The most prominent man-made feature of the area is Flamborough lighthouse. The headland...
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...
, representing the riding of Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale
Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale (provincial electoral district)
Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale is a provincial electoral district in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 2007 provincial election...
for the Liberal Party of Ontario
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
. McMeekin previously served as the Minister of Consumer Services, and Minister of Government Services
Ministry of Government Services (Ontario)
The Ministry of Government Services is responsible for the delivery and management of government operations. Its goal is to provide cost-effective services to all residents and businesses and to the Ontario Public Service. It replaced the former Management Board Secretariat and the former Ministry...
in the in the Liberal
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
government of Premier
Premier of Ontario
The Premier of Ontario is the first Minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive council, or Cabinet. The Executive Council Act The Premier of Ontario...
Dalton McGuinty
Dalton McGuinty
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....
. Ted McMeekin is the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training Colleges and Universities.
McMeekin holds a Master's Degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in social work from Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
. He has served as executive director of the Burlington Social Planning Council, and was for a time the chair of part-time studies at Mohawk College
Mohawk College
Mohawk College is a public College of Applied Arts and Technology located in the Golden Horseshoe of Ontario, Canada. Mohawk has three main campuses: the Fennell Campus located in Hamilton, the Brantford Campus located in Brantford and the STARRT Institute located in Stoney Creek, as well as the...
(where he also taught courses). He has also worked on social justice issues for the United Church of Canada
United Church of Canada
The United Church of Canada is a Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. It is the largest Protestant church and, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest Christian church in Canada...
, and was the owner and operator of a small bookstore for eight years.
Before entering provincial politics, McMeekin was a member of the Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council
The Hamilton City Council is the governing body of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.The current council consists of the mayor plus fifteen councillors, one elected from each of the city's wards. The incumbent council was elected in a municipal election on November 13, 2006...
representing Ward 7 (Hamilton Mountain). After retiring from Council, he moved to Flamborough, Ontario
Flamborough, Ontario
Flamborough is a former town near, and a current community in, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada....
, a rural community which lies on the outskirts of Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, and later served a term of six years as mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
. McMeekin was also for a number of years Flamborough's representative on the Hamilton-Wentworth regional council, which the provincial government of Mike Harris
Mike Harris
Michael Deane "Mike" Harris was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government...
eliminated in 2000 by amalgamating the city and outlying regions into a single political entity. McMeekin was one of the most vocal opponents of this change, noting that it would result in a loss of autonomy for Flamborough.
2000 by-election
McMeekin's plans to jump from municipal to provincial politics had been rumoured for years, and it came as no surprise when he won the Liberal nomination for a by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
to be held in ADFA on September 7, 2000 (called following the resignation of Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Toni Skarica
Toni Skarica
Antonio 'Toni' Skarica is a lawyer and former politician in Ontario, Canada. From 1995 to 2000, he was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario....
, another vocal opponent of the amalgamation scheme). Although the seat had gone overwhelmingly for the Progressive Conservatives
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
the previous year, McMeekin managed to defeat PC candidate Priscilla de Villiers
Priscilla de Villiers
Priscilla de Villiers is a Canadian activist. She was the founder and president of CAVEAT, an organization advocating governmental policy on crime....
by over 9,000 votes. The Conservatives had spent $211,989 on his competitor, nearly $80,000 in excess of McMeekin's $132,143. Local opposition to amalgamation was generally cited as the reason for this shift.
2003 provincial election
In the provincial election of 2003Ontario general election, 2003
The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
, McMeekin defeated Tory candidate Mark Mullins by a somewhat reduced margin. He served as parliamentary assistant to John Gerretsen
John Gerretsen
John Philip Gerretsen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a Minister in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Early life:...
in his capacity as the Minister responsible for Seniors from October 23, 2003 to September 27, 2004. On September 27, 2004, he was appointed assistant to Jim Watson, the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services
Ministry of Consumer and Business Services (Ontario)
The Former Ministry of Consumer and Business Services in the Canadian province of Ontario was responsible for government relations with citizens and businesses. These included the provision of birth, death and marriage certificates, land registry, government publications, fraud investigations and...
.
2007 provincial election
In the provincial election of 2007Ontario general election, 2007
The Ontario general election of 2007 was held on October 10, 2007 to elect members of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular...
, McMeekin is running against Progressive Conservative candidate Chris Corrigan. On October 30, 2007, McMeekin was named a cabinet minister, responsible for Government and Consumer Services.
Electoral record
|-|Ted McMeekin
|align="right"|20,525
|align="right"|41.5
|align="right"|
|-
|Chris Corrigan
Chris Corrigan
Chris Corrigan is an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director of the Patrick Corporation until it was taken over in 2006....
|align="right"|17,219
|align="right"|34.8
|align="right"|
|-
|Juanita Maldonado
|align="right"|6,542
|align="right"|13.2
|align="right"|
|-
|David Januczkowski
|align="right"|4,243
|align="right"|8.6
|align="right"|
|-
|Jim Enos
|align="right"|501
|align="right"|1.0
|align="right"|
|-
|Martin Zaliniak
|align="right"|219
|align="right"|0.4
|align="right"|
|-
|Eileen Butson
|align="right"|129
|align="right"|0.3
|align="right"|
|-
|Sam Zaslavsky
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|0.1
|align="right"|
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|Ontario general election, 2003
Ontario general election, 2003
The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
(1999)
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
(2000)
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
|Ted McMeekin
|align=right|23,045
|align=right| 47.5
|align=right| +14.0
|align=right| -12.1
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Mark Mullins
|align=right|18,141
|align=right| 37.4
|align=right| -20.7
|align=right| +6.9
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Kelly Hayes
|align=right|5,666
|align=right| 11.7
|align=right| +2.3
|align=right| +4.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Brian Elder Sullivan
|align=right| 903
|align=right| 1.9
|align=right| -
|align=right| -0.8
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Family Coalition
Family Coalition Party of Ontario
The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...
|Michael Trolly
|align=right| 434
|align=right| 0.9
|align=right| -
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Confederation of Regions
Confederation of Regions Party of Canada
The Confederation of Regions Party was a right-wing Canadian political party founded in 1984 by Elmer Knutson. It was founded as a successor to the Western Canada Federation , a non-partisan organization, to fight the Liberal Party of Canada...
|Richard Butson
Richard Butson
Colonel Arthur Richard Cecil Butson, GC, OMM, CD and Bar was born of British parents in China, and later emigrated to Canada....
|align=right| 293
|align=right| 0.6
|align=right| -
|align=right| -
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="6"|By-election: February 7, 2000
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
! style="width: 40px"|%
! style="width: 40px"|+/-
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Liberal
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...
|Ted McMeekin
|align=right|19,916
|align=right| 59.6
|align=right| +26.1
|-
| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
|Priscilla De Villiers
Priscilla de Villiers
Priscilla de Villiers is a Canadian activist. She was the founder and president of CAVEAT, an organization advocating governmental policy on crime....
|align=right|10,201
|align=right| 30.5
|align=right| -27.6
|-
| style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
|Jessica Brennan
|align=right|2,297
|align=right| 6.7
|align=right| -1.5
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Green
|Mark Coakley
Mark Coakley
Mark Coakley is a Canadian writer of non-fiction. He was a lawyer in Hamilton, Ontario from 1998 to 2008, before becoming a full-time author. His first published book, Tip and Trade, appeared in 2011....
|align=right| 1,405
|align=right| 4.14
|align=right| -
|-
| style="width: 185px"|Independent
|John C. Turmel
John C. Turmel
John C. Turmel is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness Book of Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost having contested 75 elections and lost 74...
|align=right| 80
|align=right| 0.2
|align=right| -