John Garth Turner is a Canadian business journalist,author,entrepreneur,broadcaster,financial advisor,and politician,twice elected as a Member of the House of Commons,former Minister of National Revenue and leadership candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. After serving as a PC MP between 1988 and 1993,he returned to political life as a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election,beating Liberal Gary Carr in the riding of Halton,Ontario. On October 18,2006,the Conservative Party suspended him from the Conservative caucus for his independent stance,and he sat as an Independent MP until February 6,2007,when he joined the Liberal Party of Canada. His great-grandfather,Ebenezer Vining Bodwell,was also a Liberal Member of Parliament.
Halton was a federal electoral district in Ontario,Canada,represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1988 before being abolished in an electoral district redistribution,and again from 1997 to 2015,when it was again abolished in another electoral district redistribution. When it was last contested in 2011,its population was 203,437,of whom 115,255 were eligible electors.
Theodore Calvin Arnott is a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on September 6,1990,representing the Riding of Wellington. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and represents the Riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the Ontario Legislature. Arnott has served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 42nd and 43rd Parliaments of Ontario.
Kevin Daniel Flynn is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the riding of Oakville. He served in the cabinet of the government of Kathleen Wynne.
Terence Hart Young is a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2008 to 2015 who represented the riding of Oakville. Previously,Young was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1995 and 1999.
Barbara Ann Pickard Sullivan was a politician in Ontario,Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995.
Robert Walter Elliot was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990. He represented the riding of Halton North.
Terrance Patrick O'Connor,QC is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1972 to 1974,and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987. O'Connor was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. From 1993 to 2015 he was a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Bonnie Crombie is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party since December 2,2023.
Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,Raitt was elected to the House of Commons in the 2008 election,representing Halton. Shortly after her election,Prime Minister Stephen Harper named her minister of natural resources,holding the role until 2010,when she became minister of labour. In 2013,she became minister of transport,remaining in the role until the Conservatives were defeated by the Liberal Party in the 2015 election. Raitt was re-elected in the newly formed riding of Milton. She contested the Conservative leadership in 2017,losing to Andrew Scheer,who made her deputy party leader and deputy opposition leader,a role she would hold until she was defeated in the 2019 election. Since leaving politics,she has been the vice chair of Global Investment Banking at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
Parm Gill is a Canadian politician. He had represented the riding of Milton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 2018 and 2024.
Eve Adams is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Mississauga—Brampton South from 2011 to 2015. She was elected as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada but,on February 9,2015,she announced she was resigning as a parliamentary secretary and crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party. Adams later lost the Liberal nomination in Eglinton—Lawrence to Marco Mendicino.
Milton is a federal electoral district in Ontario,Canada,that consists of the town of Milton and part of Burlington which has a population growing much faster than the Ontario average. It was created by the 2012 federal redistribution and previously part of Halton. Redistributed results showed that Conservative Lisa Raitt won the area easily in 2011,although her vote share dropped in the 2015 election and the Liberals took the riding in 2019. Since 2019 it has been represented by Liberal Adam van Koeverden.
Oakville North—Burlington is a federal electoral district in Halton Region,Ontario.
The 2015 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on May 9,2015,as a result of the resignation of Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak following the provincial election on June 12,2014,his second loss in a row as party leader. Patrick Brown won the leadership with 61.8% of votes allocated,defeating Christine Elliott who had 38.2%.
Indira Naidoo-Harris is a South African born Canadian former politician and journalist who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2014 provincial election,sitting as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Halton until 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party,Naidoo-Harris was the province's minister of education in 2018,minister of the status of women from 2017 to 2018,early years and child care minister from 2016 to 2018,and associate minister of finance in 2016.
John Oliver is a politician in Ontario,Canada. He is a former Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada who was elected in 2015 in the riding of Oakville. He served one term and chose not to run for re-election.
Ruby Sahota is a Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding Brampton North during the 2015 Canadian federal election.
Pamela Damoff is a Canadian Liberal politician,who was elected to represent the riding of Oakville North—Burlington in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
Stephen John Crawford is a Canadian politician who currently serves as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Finance.
