Doug Martindale | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Burrows | |
| In office 1990–2011 | |
| Preceded by | William Chornopyski |
| Succeeded by | Melanie Wight |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 25,1947 Brockville,Ontario,Canada |
| Political party | New Democrat |
| Residence(s) | Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada |
Doug Martindale (born May 25,1947) is a politician in Manitoba,Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1990 to 2011,serving as a member of the New Democratic Party.
Martindale was born in Brockville,Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brock University (1973) and a Master of Divinity degree from Victoria University (1976). He is an ordained United Church minister,and has practiced in Saskatchewan (1976–80) and at a mission in north-end Winnipeg (1980–90). [1] [2] He has been involved in several outreach programs among Winnipeg's poor and aboriginal communities,and remains active in efforts to combat homelessness. He helped to convert St. John's United Church into a co-op apartment complex,and was a founding member of Inner City Voice newspaper. In the legislature,he has served as Chair of the Justice,Social and Economic Development Committees. [3]
In 1973,he married Carol Wachniak. The couple has two children. [4]
Martindale defeated incumbent MLA Conrad Santos to win the New Democratic Party nomination for the northwest Winnipeg division of Burrows in the 1988 provincial election. [5] He was defeated in the general election by Liberal candidate William Chornopyski. The seat had previously been regarded as safe for the NDP,but local divisions and a provincial swing away from the party contributed to Martindale's defeat.
NDP support had recovered somewhat by the 1990 election,and Martindale was able to defeat Chornopyski in a rematch. The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under Gary Filmon,and Martindale served in the official opposition as his party's critic for family services and housing. [6] He opposed the Filmon government's cuts to child welfare and education support,and called for an inquiry into allegations of emotional abuse and unethical treatment at the Osborne House battered women's shelter. [7] He also criticized the government's introduction of a "welfare fraud hotline",describing it as "punitive and unnecessary" and noting that Manitoba lost far more money each year to income tax fraud. [8] Nonetheless,Martindale supported the government's early intervention policy as a means of keeping more children with their families and out of the supervision of Child and Family Services. [9]
Martindale was re-elected in the 1995 general election,as the Progressive Conservatives won a second majority government across the province. He continued to serve as family services critic,and opposed another round of child welfare cuts introduced by the Filmon government later in the year. [10] When the government introduced further benefit cuts of up to 10% for single,employable people,Martindale described Filmon's administration as the "cruelest,most heartless government in Canada". [11] In 1999,he and fellow NDP MLA Diane McGifford organized consultative meetings of parents and day-care providers. [12]
The New Democratic Party won a majority government in the 1999 general election under the leadership of Gary Doer. Martindale was easily re-elected in Burrows,defeating controversial school trustee Mike Babinsky of the Liberal Party. He served as a backbench supporter of the Doer government. In 2002,he was appointed to a four-member task force seeking public input on the future of the province's mining and petroleum sectors. [13] There was some speculation that he would be appointed to cabinet after his re-election in 2003,but this did not occur. [14]
In 2004,Martindale brought forward a parliamentary motion urging the provincial government to declare the last Saturday of November as Day of the Ukrainian Famine/Genocide,commemorating the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33. [15] He was an international observer to the Ukrainian presidential election in December 2004. [16]
Martindale was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election. [17]
In 2011,he announced that he would not be seeking reelection. Martindale said that he would be teaching at Booth University College and Providence University College,and would return to preaching as a United Church minister. [18]
Martindale supported Lorne Nystrom's bid to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 1995,and endorsed Bill Blaikie in 2003.
| 2007 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 3,790 | 70.75 | 1.74 | $16,207.51 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Negrych | 1,005 | 18.76 | 11.47 | $13,322.81 | |||
| Liberal | Bernd Hohne | 562 | 10.49 | -11.09 | $3,416.97 | |||
| Total valid votes | 5,357 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 29 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 10,747 | 50.12 | -0.01 | |||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2007). Statement of Votes for the 39th Provincial General Election, May 22, 2007 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
| 2003 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 4,004 | 69.01 | 2.67 | $14,056.29 | |||
| Liberal | Tony Sanchez | 1,252 | 21.58 | -2.23 | $17,240.92 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Derek Lambert | 423 | 7.29 | -2.03 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Catharine Johannson | 123 | 2.12 | – | $200.80 | |||
| Total valid votes | 5,802 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 31 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 11,636 | 50.13 | -15.51 | |||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (2003). Statement of Votes for the 38th Provincial General Election, June 3, 2003 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
| 1999 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 5,151 | 66.34 | -1.13 | $21,056.00 | |||
| Liberal | Mike Babinsky | 1,849 | 23.81 | 9.26 | $24,553.70 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Cheryl Clark | 724 | 9.32 | -8.66 | $11,879.28 | |||
| Communist | Darrell Rankin | 41 | 0.53 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes | 7,765 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 55 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 11,914 | 65.64 | 1.73 | |||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
| 1995 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 4,748 | 67.46 | 13.12 | $18,404.00 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Bill McGee | 1,266 | 17.99 | -1.11 | $13,414.34 | |||
| Liberal | Naty Yankech | 1,024 | 14.55 | -12.01 | $13,401.87 | |||
| Total valid votes | 7,038 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 58 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 11,104 | 63.90 | -2.96 | |||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
| 1990 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 4,206 | 54.34 | 13.55 | ||||
| Liberal | William Chornopyski | 2,056 | 26.56 | -15.71 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Chris Aune | 1,478 | 19.10 | 4.98 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,740 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 29 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 11,619 | 66.86 | 0.82 | |||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
| 1988 Manitoba general election : Burrows | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | William Chornopyski | 3,114 | 42.27 | 33.49 | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Martindale | 3,005 | 40.79 | -12.25 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Allan Yap | 1,040 | 14.12 | -0.09 | ||||
| Independent | Michael Kibzey | 129 | 1.75 | – | ||||
| Communist | Lorne Robson | 79 | 1.07 | -0.89 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,367 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected | 45 | – | ||||||
| Eligible voters / turnout | 11,222 | 66.05 | 4.45 | |||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +16.52 | ||||||
Source(s) Source: Manitoba. Chief Electoral Officer (1999). Statement of Votes for the 37th Provincial General Election, September 21, 1999 (PDF) (Report). Winnipeg: Elections Manitoba. | ||||||||
All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditures refer to candidate expenses.