- Glen Findlay
Glen Marshall Findlay (born
July 15 ,1940 ) is apolitician inManitoba ,Canada . He was a member of theLegislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1999, and a cabinet minister in the government ofGary Filmon from 1988 to 1999.Findlay was born in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, and was educated at the
University of Manitoba and the University of Illinois. He worked as a farmer after returning to the province, and was a professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at theUniversity of Manitoba from 1970 to 1977.Findlay was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1986, easily winning the rural riding of Virden as a Progressive Conservative. The election was narrowly won by the New Democratic Party under
Howard Pawley , and Findlay joined 25 other Conservatives in the official opposition.The Pawley government fell in 1988, when disgruntled backbencher
Jim Walding voted against his own government. Findlay was re-elected without difficulty in the general election which followed, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture with responsibility for the Manitoba Telephone System onMay 9 ,1988 .The Virden riding was eliminated by redistribution in the 1990 election and Findlay ran in the riding of Springfield, where he defeated NDP candidate
Deborah Barron-McNabb by almost 2,000 votes. He endorsedJean Charest 's bid to lead theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada in June 1993 ("Winnipeg Free Press", 13 June 1993).On
September 10 ,1993 , he was named Minister of Highways and Transportation, retaining responsibility for the provincial telephone system. He was re-elected in the provincial election of 1995, again defeating his NDP opponent by about 2000 votes. In 1996, Findlay was responsible for coordinating the government's highly controversial decision to sell the MTS.Findlay left cabinet on
February 5 ,1999 , and did not seek re-election later in the year. In 2000, he was appointed to a federal panel reviewing the Canada Transportation Act.
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