Charles Beer

Charles Beer
John Charles McWaters Beer
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York North
In office
1987–1995
Preceded by Greg Sorbara
Succeeded by Frank Klees
Personal details
Political party Liberal
Cabinet Minister of Community and Social Services (1989-1990)
Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs (1989-1990)
Committees Chair, Select Committee on Constitutional Reform (1987-1989)
Chair, Standing Committee on Social Development (1992-1995)
Portfolio Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education (1988-1989)

John Charles McWaters Beer (born November 24, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario to Harry M. Beer and Elizabeth Greenway Holmes) is a former Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.

Life and career

Beer was educated at the University of Toronto, York University, Université Laval and the National Defence College. He worked as an educator after graduating, and was the Assistant Headmaster of Pickering College from 1981 to 1986. In 1987, he served as director of the Ontario Conference of Independent Schools.

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, but finished a distant third against Progressive Conservative Frank Drea in Scarborough Centre. He campaigned for the legislature again in the 1981 election, but lost to Progressive Conservative Margaret Birch in Scarborough East.

Beer was elected to the Ontario legislature on his third attempt, in the 1987 election in which the Liberal Party won a landslide majority. He defeated Progressive Conservative candidate John Cole by 5,185 votes in York North, located just north of Toronto. Beer was appointed a parliamentary assistant in 1988, and was promoted to Minister of Community and Social Services and Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs on August 2, 1989. In the former capacity, he started the Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation in 1990.[1]

The Liberals were defeated in the 1990 provincial election but Beer retained his seat beating Progressive Conservative candidate George Timpson by only 158 votes (Ontario New Democratic Party candidate Keith Munro was a close third). Peterson resigned as Liberal leader immediately after the election, and Beer ran to succeed him in the leadership convention that was called in 1992. He finished fourth, withdrawing from the contest after the third ballot. There are reports that Beer was forced to mortgage his house to pay for his leadership campaign.

Beer is on the left wing of the Liberal Party, and played a significant role in developing the party's "Red Book" platform for the 1995 provincial campaign. The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in this election, however, and Beer was among the Liberal incumbents defeated; losing to Frank Klees, later a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris, by almost 12,000 votes.

In 1996, he endorsed Gerard Kennedy's unsuccessful bid to become leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.

In the late 1990s, Beer served as the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Executive Service Organization, a not-for-profit agency that transfers Canadian technical and managerial expertise to developing countries. Today, he works for the current Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty as executive assistant to George Smitherman, the Minister of Health and Long Term Care. He is also honorary chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

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