Ajax is a town in Durham Region in Southern Ontario,Canada,located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario,often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs,colloquially known as the Tories,is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario,Canada.
John Howard Tory is a Canadian former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 2004 to 2009.
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected members are known as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Ontario to become law. Together,the Legislative Assembly and Lieutenant Governor make up the unicameral Legislature of Ontario or Parliament of Ontario. The assembly meets at the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in the provincial capital of Toronto.
Mark Holland is a Canadian politician who serves as the current leader of the Government in the House of Commons. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the Ontario riding of Ajax-Pickering. Holland was subsequently re-elected in the 2006,2008,and the 2015 federal elections. He was defeated in the 2011 election and became the director of health promotion and public affairs with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. He also served as the Heart and Stroke Foundation's executive director for the Ontario Mission and national director of children and youth,before returning to federal politics in 2015. In August 2018,he was promoted to the position of Chief Government Whip.
Janet Ecker is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003,and was a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
Laurie J. Scott is a Canadian politician who served as Ontario Minister of Infrastructure from 2019 to 2021 and Minister of Labour from 2018 to 2019 in the Doug Ford cabinet. She is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock since 2018.
Judi Longfield,is a former Canadian politician. She was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2006,representing the riding of Whitby—Oshawa as a member of the Liberal Party. She has also campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Patrick Walter Brown is a Canadian politician who has served as the 51st and current mayor of Brampton since 2018. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario and leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 2015 to 2018. Brown also represented the riding Barrie in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 2006 to 2015.
Christine Janice Elliott is a retired Canadian politician in Ontario who served as the 11th deputy premier of Ontario and the Ontario minister of health from 2018 to 2022.
Lisa Anne MacLeod is a Canadian politician who has represented Nepean in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Elected in 2018,MacLeod is a member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. She previously served as the Ontario minister of children,community and social services from 2018 to 2019 and Ontario minister of heritage,sport,tourism and culture industries from 2019 to 2022.
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%.
The 2018 Ontario general election was held on June 7,2018,to elect the 124 members of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario,led by Doug Ford,won 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature and formed a majority government. The Ontario New Democratic Party,led by Andrea Horwath,formed the Official Opposition. The Ontario Liberal Party,led by incumbent Premier Kathleen Wynne,lost official party status in recording both the worst result in the party's 161-year history and the worst result for any incumbent governing party in Ontario. The Green Party of Ontario won a seat for the first time in their history,while the Trillium Party of Ontario lost its single seat gained by a floor-crossing during the 41st Parliament.
Christine C. G. Hogarth is a Canadian politician,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Etobicoke—Lakeshore as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party,for which she previously served as Ontario executive director.
Rod Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former politician who sat as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Ajax from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party,Phillips served as Ontario's minister of the environment,conservation and parks from 2018 to 2019,minister of finance from 2019 to 2020,and minister of long-term care from 2021 to 2022.
Peter Bethlenfalvy is a Canadian businessman and politician who has been the minister of finance for Ontario since December 31,2020. Bethlenfalvy has sat in the Ontario Legislature as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Pickering—Uxbridge since the 2018 Ontario provincial election,representing the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. He served as President of the Ontario Treasury Board from 2018 to 2021.
The 2022 Ontario general election was held on June 2,2022,to elect Members of the Provincial Parliament to serve in the 43rd Parliament of Ontario.
Charmaine Williams is a Canadian politician,currently serving as Associate Minister of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election,representing the riding of Brampton Centre as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
The 44th Ontario general election is tentatively scheduled to be held on June 4,2026. As of December 2016,Ontario elections are held on the first Thursday in June in the fourth calendar year following the previous general election,unless the Legislative Assembly of Ontario is dissolved earlier by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario due to a motion of no confidence. Such a dissolution is unlikely as the current government has a majority.
