Chris Stockwell | |
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36th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario | |
In office October 3, 1996 –October 19, 1999 | |
Premier | Mike Harris |
Lieutenant Governor | Hal Jackman Hilary Weston |
Preceded by | Al McLean |
Succeeded by | Gary Carr |
Member of Provincial Parliament for Ontario | |
In office 1999–2003 | |
Preceded by | New riding |
Succeeded by | Donna Cansfield |
Constituency | Etobicoke Centre |
In office 1990–1999 | |
Preceded by | Linda LeBourdais |
Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
Constituency | Etobicoke West |
Personal details | |
Born | London,Ontario,Canada | March 9,1957
Died | February 10,2018 60) (aged Toronto,Ontario,Canada |
Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Children | Kale Stockwell,1987 Victoria Stockwell,1989 |
Parent(s) | Bill Stockwell,1934 Loretta Stockwell,1935 |
Occupation | Political consultant |
Chris Stockwell (March 9,1957 –February 10,2018) was a Canadian politician from Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003,and served as Speaker of the legislature and cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Before entering provincial politics,he had been a member of Etobicoke City Council and the Metro Toronto Council. Stockwell's father,Bill Stockwell,was also a prominent municipal politician.
Stockwell was elected as a city of Etobicoke Controller in 1982,was defeated in his attempt at re-election in 1985,but was elected to the Metropolitan Toronto council in November 1988 representing Lakeshore-Queensway,in the Etobicoke region,and also served as chair of the Metro O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts during this period.[ citation needed ]
Stockwell was elected to the Ontario provincial legislature in the 1990 provincial election,defeating incumbent Liberal Linda LeBourdais by about 4,000 votes in Etobicoke West. [1] The New Democratic Party won the election,and Stockwell sat on the opposition benches for the next five years. [2]
The Tories won a majority in the provincial election of 1995,and Stockwell was easily elected in his own riding. [3] Despite his experience,he was not appointed to cabinet by the new Premier,Mike Harris. [2] He soon developed a reputation as one of the more prominent Red Tories in the Tory caucus.[ citation needed ]
Stockwell was elected Speaker of the Assembly on October 3,1996. He was not Harris's preferred choice for the position,but won with support from members in all three parties. Stockwell won a reputation for independence in the Speaker's chair,and was not afraid to criticize members of his own party. [2]
Stockwell played a key role in the anti-megacity filibuster of 1997,where the Opposition parties proposed thousands of amendments identical except for a few words. He ruled against the government when they moved that the legislature did not need to vote on each amendment,but in their favor when they suggested that the identical text did not need to be read aloud each time.[ citation needed ]
In the provincial election of 1999,Stockwell's personal popularity was such that he was able to win an easy re-election in the redistributed riding of Etobicoke Centre after defeating fellow MPP Doug Ford,Sr. for then Progressive Conservative nomination. [4] [5] On June 17,1999,he was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Labour. [6]
Despite Stockwell's reputation as a Red Tory [ citation needed ],he implemented a number of right-wing policy directives as Labour Minister. He was largely credited with shepherding through the legislature a bill to increase the maximum work-week to 60 hours,and also promoted the Harris government's "Workplace Democracy Act",which made union organization more difficult. In addition to the Labour portfolio,Stockwell also served as Commissioner of the Board of Internal Economy for a few months in 2001.[ citation needed ]
Stockwell was a candidate to succeed Mike Harris in the 2002 PC leadership campaign. During this campaign,he claimed that the right-wing initiatives of Harris's "Common Sense Revolution" were necessary in 1995,but no longer made sense in 2003.[ citation needed ] He won little support from party insiders,and placed last with four per cent of the vote. He supported Ernie Eves,the winning candidate,on the second ballot.[ citation needed ]
On April 15,2002,Eves appointed Stockwell as Government House Leader and Minister of Environment and Energy. [7] The Energy and Environment portfolios were broken up on August 22,2002,with Stockwell keeping Environment.[ citation needed ]
On June 17,2003,he resigned from cabinet in the wake of a controversy concerning the misuse of expenses. [8] All expenses were referred to the provincial Integrity Commissioner who at that time was the Honourable Coulter A. Osbourne,a former Ontario Supreme Court judge. He undertook an exhaustive review. In his first report dated January 31,2003,covering the period from June 26,1995,to December 31,2002,the Honourable Coulter A. Osbourne concluded:"I am satisfied that the expenses which I have reviewed,net of reimbursements made,are allowable expenses (see section 15 of the Act)." On June 9,2003,he stated:"I am pleased to report that all expense claims made for the period January 1st to March 31st met with the requirements of the Act and the Rules Governing the Expenses of Cabinet Ministers,Opposition Leaders and other persons." On June 3,2004,covering the period April 3,2003 to March 31,2004,the Commissioner again stated:"I am pleased to report that all requests for reimbursements were complied with and all expense claims reviewed were subsequently approved." [9]
On July 25,2003,Stockwell announced that he would not run in the 2003 election. [10] He was later employed as a political consultant.[ citation needed ]
In 2013,Stockwell was one of several candidates for appointment to Toronto City Council to replace Doug Holyday in Ward 3. [11] The Etobicoke Community Council recommended him to the city council as its preferred candidate for the appointment; [11] however,October 10,2013,the final city council vote selected Peter Leon. [12] In September 2014,Stockwell registered as a candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 4 in Etobicoke. He came in fourth place,with 9.24% of the vote,losing to John Campbell.[ citation needed ]
Stockwell died in Toronto of cancer at the age of 60. [4] [13]
Ward 4 | ||
Candidate | Votes | % |
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John Campbell | 8,227 | 34.44 |
Niels Christensen | 6,847 | 28.66 |
Angelo Carnevale | 4,968 | 20.79 |
Chris Stockwell | 2,208 | 9.24 |
Adam Slobodian | 384 | 1.60 |
Tony Chun | 286 | 1.19 |
William Murdoch | 278 | 1.16 |
Rosemarie Mulhall | 267 | 1.11 |
Mario Magno | 216 | 0.90 |
Oscar Vidal-Calvet | 205 | 0.85 |
Total | 23,886 | 100 |
1999 Ontario general election : Etobicoke Centre | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Progressive Conservative | Chris Stockwell | 25,518 | 54.12 | $49,034 | ||||
Liberal | Agnes Ugolini Potts | 19,035 | 40.37 | – | $41,081 | |||
New Democratic | Bonte Minnema | 1,309 | 2.78 | $1,896 | ||||
Family Coalition | Dan McCash | 389 | 0.83 | – | $31 | |||
Green | Christopher J. Morton | 375 | 0.80 | – | none listed | |||
Natural Law | Geraldine Jackson | 316 | 0.67 | $0 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Elaine Couto | 209 | 0.44 | $26 | ||||
Total valid votes | 47,151 | 100.00 | ||||||
Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 414 | |||||||
Turnout | 47,565 | 64.55 | ||||||
Electors on the lists | 73,691 |
Party | Candidate | Votes [14] | Vote % | |
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Progressive Conservative | Chris Stockwell | 18,349 | 55.3 | |
Liberal | Michael Brown | 9,826 | 29.6 | |
New Democrat | Judy Jones | 4,608 | 13.9 | |
Natural Law | Laureen G. Amos | 399 | 1.2 | |
Total | 33,182 |
1990 Ontario general election : Etobicoke West | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Chris Stockwell | 13,711 | 40.8 | |||||
Liberal | Linda LeBourdais | 10,082 | 30.0 | |||||
New Democratic | Judy Jones | 7,988 | 23.8 | |||||
Family Coalition | Kevin McGourty | 1,045 | 3.1 | |||||
Libertarian | Janice Hazlett | 495 | 1.5 | |||||
Independent | Martin Fraser | 303 | 0.9 | |||||
Total | 33,624 | |||||||
Source: "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 7 September 1990. p. A10. |
Etobicoke Board of Control, 1985 (4 elected) | |
Candidate | Votes |
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Dick O'Brien (incumbent) | 34,248 |
Lois Griffin | 33,175 |
Leonard Braithwaite (incumbent) | 33,085 |
Morley Kells | 29,817 |
Chris Stockwell (incumbent) | 29,629 |
Doug Holyday | 28,982 |
James Shawera | 5,473 |
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