Kathryn McGarry

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Kathryn McGarry
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Kathryn McGarry is a Canadian politician who was the 6th mayor of Cambridge from 2018 [1] to 2022. Prior to her election as mayor, she represented the riding of Cambridge in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2014 to 2018. She was a minister in the Cabinet of Premier Kathleen Wynne. In 2023, McGarry was elected president of the Ontario Liberal Party. [2]

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Background

McGarry began her career as a critical care nurse in 1978, working first at the Hospital for Sick Children, as well as Grand River Hospital and Cambridge Memorial hospital. [3]

McGarry was a founding member of Hospice Waterloo Region; past president of the Heritage Cambridge Board of Directors; and past chair of the Heritage Master Plan Implementation Committee. She is a member of the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, and was a contributing member of the Community Leaders' Task Force on Municipal Restructuring. [4] McGarry has been a recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for voluntary, community and humanitarian service, [5] and the Bernice Adams Special Trustee award. [6]

Provincial politics

In the 2007 provincial election, McGarry vied as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Cambridge. She was defeated by Progressive Conservative incumbent Gerry Martiniuk by 3,238 votes. [7] McGarry ran a second time in the 2011 provincial election but was defeated by a reduced margin of 1,954 votes to new PC candidate Rob Leone. [8] McGarry ran a third time in 2014, this time defeating Leone by 3,067 votes. [9] [10]

On June 24, 2014, McGarry was named Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Transportation, and given responsibility for drafting the province's driverless car regulation, reforming the province's intercity bus system and strengthening cycling and road safety. [11] [12]

On November 20, 2014, McGarry introduced a private member's bill, The Lung Health Act 2014, [13] which called for the development and implementation of a comprehensive Ontario Lung Health Action Plan covering research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung disease. [14]

On June 13, 2016, McGarry was appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. [15] She introduced and passed legislation that increased accountability and oversight of Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities. [16] She also introduced the Aggregate Resources and Mining Modernization Act, which modernized the province's resource extraction rules by updating processes for fee and royalty increases on aggregates, expanded public participation in the extraction application process and enhanced environmental protections through clearer regulations and better oversight for aggregate companies. [17]

In a cabinet shuffle on January 18, 2018, McGarry was named Minister of Transportation. [18] As Minister, McGarry announced the government would conduct a feasibility study to extend GO Transit rail service to Cambridge, connecting the city to the Kitchener line through Guelph via a currently unused CN Rail owned track. [19]

McGarry lost her re-election bid in the 2018 provincial election to Belinda Karahalios. [20]

In 2023, she announced that she would run for president of the Ontario Liberal Party. She was elected president at the party's annual general meeting in March 2023. [21]

Cabinet positions

Ontario provincial government of Kathleen Wynne
Cabinet posts (2)
PredecessorOfficeSuccessor
Steven Del Duca Minister of Transportation
2018 (January–June)		 John Yakabuski
Bill Mauro Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry
2016–2018		 Nathalie Des Rosiers

Municipal politics

On July 18, 2018, McGarry announced that she was running for Mayor of Cambridge, Ontario, [22] stating that the people of the city were no longer satisfied with Craig's leadership style, and pledged to run city hall in a more communicative and consultative manner. [22] During the campaign, Craig was forced to apologize to McGarry when his campaign staff edited her out of a photograph of a public event they had both attended while McGarry was still sitting in the Legislative Assembly. [23] On October 22, 2018, McGarry was elected Mayor of Cambridge, defeating 18 year incumbent Doug Craig as well as three other candidates with 13,404 votes and 47.7% of the vote, becoming the first candidate in the city's history to defeat an incumbent mayor. [24]

She was defeated by Jan Liggett in the 2022 municipal election.

Election results

Cambridge mayoral election, 2018
CandidateVotes%
Kathryn McGarry13,40447.72
Doug Craig (X)7,39426.32
Ben Tucci4,90217.45
Colin Tucker1,5535.53
Randy Carter8362.98
Total28,089100.00
Source: City of Cambridge [25]
2018 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Belinda Karahalios 17,79336.97%+4.41
New Democratic Marjorie Knight15,63932.49%+10.88
Liberal Kathryn McGarry11,19123.25%-15.67
Green Michele Braniff3,0186.27%+0.61
Libertarian Allan Dettweiler4901.02%-0.24
Total valid votes100.0  
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing -
Source: Elections Ontario [26]
2014 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Kathryn McGarry18,76338.92+5.85
Progressive Conservative Rob Leone 15,69432.56-5.13
New Democratic Bobbi Stewart10,41321.59-3.02
Green Temara Brown2,7265.68+3.18
Libertarian Allan R. Dettweiler6051.25-0.24
Total valid votes 48,200100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots814
Turnout49,01549.04
Eligible voters100,130
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +5.85
Source: Elections Ontario [9]
2011 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Rob Leone 15,94737.69-3.97
Liberal Kathryn McGarry13,99333.07-1.04
New Democratic Atinuke Bankole10,41424.61+10.81
Green Jacques Malette1,0562.50-6.43
Libertarian Allan Dettweiler6291.49 
Independent Robert Ross2710.64 
Total valid votes 42,310100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots1870.44
Turnout42,49746.04
Eligible voters92,310
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -1.47
Source: Elections Ontario [8]
2007 Ontario general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Gerry Martiniuk 17,88441.66-0.84
Liberal Kathryn McGarry14,64134.11-1.08
New Democratic Mitchell Healey5,92313.80-4.29
Green Colin Carmichael3,8358.93+6.84
Family Coalition Paul Vendervet6501.50-0.63
Total valid votes 42,933 100.00
Source: Elections Ontario [7]

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