- H. James Jones
H. James (Jim) Jones (born
February 4 ,1943 ) is a Canadian politician. He served in theCanadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000, initially as a Progressive Conservative and later as a member of theCanadian Alliance .Jones was born in Warwick,
Ontario , and received a degree inBusiness Administration fromRyerson Polytechnical Institute in 1967. He became aCertified General Accountant in 1971. Jones was an internal auditor of the Moore Corporation from 1967 to 1969, and a Marketing Manager atIBM Canada Ltd. from 1969 to 1997. He began his political career at the municipal level, serving as a councillor in Markham's third ward from 1988 to 1997.He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 federal election, defeating Liberal candidate
Gobinder Randhawa by 3,639 votes in Markham. Jones was the only Progressive Conservative candidate elected inOntario in this election, and some credited his win to local dissatisfaction over the previousMember of Parliament (MP),Jag Bhaduria . Bhaduria had been elected as a Liberal, but resigned from the party amid controversy soon after the election.Jones was on the right-wing of the Progressive Conservative Party. He initially supported
Brian Pallister in the first round of the PC Party's 1998 leadership election, though he later endorsedJoe Clark on the second ballot before Pallister officially withdrew. He later became a supporter of theUnited Alternative movement, and in 2000 floated the idea of seeking re-election with co-endorsements from the Progressive Conservatives and the newly-formed Canadian Alliance, a successor to the Reform Party.Jones's proposal was rejected by the Progressive Conservative leadership, and he was thrown out of the party's caucus on
July 4 , 2000. Referring to the situation, Joe Clark was quoted as saying, "You can't play for two teams at the same time" ("National Post", 28 November 2003). He joined the Canadian Alliance onSeptember 6 .Jones ultimately sought re-election in the 2000 campaign as a Canadian Alliance candidate, while
David Scrymgeour was given the Progressive Conservative nomination. Both Jones and Scrymgeour lost to Liberal candidateJohn McCallum .Jones later returned to municipal politics, and was elected as a regional councillor in Markham in 2003. He was reelected in the November 2006 election, receiving the most votes of all regional councillor candidates, thereby becoming Markham's deputy mayor.
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DATE OF BIRTH =February 4 ,1943
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