- Gary Carr
Gary Carr (born August 14, 1955) is a
politician in Ontario,Canada . He served as a Progressive Conservative member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in theCanadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006. Gary Carr is currently the Chair of theRegional Municipality of Halton .Carr has a certificate in Business Administration from
Ryerson University , and was a businessman and sales manager in the transportation industry before entering public life. He continued his education as a politician, and received anMBA fromAthabasca University in 2002. Carr also played professionalice hockey for five years in thefarm team s of theBoston Bruins andQuebec Nordiques . In 1975, he was aMemorial Cup champion as a member of theToronto Marlboros .Carr was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1990, defeating incumbent Liberal
Doug Carrothers by 108 votes in the riding of Oakville. From 1993 to 1995, he was his party's DeputyHouse Leader .The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under
Mike Harris in the provincial election of 1995, and Carr was easily re-elected. He was passed over for acabinet position, however, and served asparliamentary assistant to the Solicitor-General for the next four years.Carr was again re-elected in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal Kevin Flynn by over 13,000 votes. He was chosen as Speaker of the legislature on October 20, 1999, and held this position for the entirety of the parliament which followed.
Like his predecessor
Chris Stockwell , Carr was known as an impartial Speaker who was willing to criticize his own government. In 2003, he alienated several members of the Progressive Conservative Party by ruling that the government ofErnie Eves had committed aprima facie act of contempt against the legislature by holding its budget announcement at the headquarters ofMagna International , rather than in the legislature itself. He was critical of the direction taken by the Progressive Conservative Party in this period, and did not seek re-election in 2003. He left politics and briefly coached theLondon Racers hockey team inLondon , UK.In 2004 Carr defeated Conservative candidate Dean Martin to win the riding of Halton. Carr was defeated in the 2006 election.
Gary Carr was elected as Chair of Halton Region on November 13, 2006. Carr overwhelmingly defeated former Halton Region CAO
Brent Marshall who resigned from his position as CAO to run against Carr. Carr was sworn in as the Regional Chairman on December 6, 2006.External links
* [http://www.halton.ca/Council/councillor_contact/bio_gary_carr_regional_chair.htm Official biography from Halton Region Site]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=18569&s=M Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/member.php?id=54 How'd They Vote?: Gary Carr's voting history and quotes]
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