- Russ Powers
Russ Powers (born
March 2 ,1949 in Toronto,Ontario ) is a Canadian politician. He is a former member of theCanadian House of Commons , representing the riding ofAncaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale for the Liberal Party.Powers moved with his family to Dundas in
1966 , and remains a member of the community. He was educated atMohawk College and the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, and has worked atMcMaster University as a laboratory technologist since1979 . Powers also has military experience, having served as a Logistics Officer in the Canadian Forces Reserve.He was first elected to municipal office in Dundas in
1982 , and served as a Dundas Town Councillor until2000 . He was also elected as a Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Councillor in1995 . When Dundas was amalgamated with Hamilton in2001 , Powers was elected to theHamilton City Council .In 2004 Russ resigned mid-term from his city council seat to run for
Member of Parliament representing the open Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale seat in that year's Canadian federal election. LiberalJohn H. Bryden had held the previous riding ofAncaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot in the 1993, 1997 and 2000 federal elections, but defected to the Conservative Party in early2004 due to his opposition toPaul Martin 's leadership. Many believed that Bryden would win the redistributed riding in 2004, but he lost the Conservative nomination toDavid Sweet . Powers defeated Sweet by a margin of 39.5% to 36%, with the NDP candidateGordon Guyatt receiving 21% support.In the 2006 election the same top three candidates all contested the riding again. This time, however, Conservative
David Sweet defeated Powers, winning 39.12% of the vote to Powers' 34.5%. Guyatt again finished third, again receiving approximately 21% of the vote.Later in 2006, Powers ran for and was re-elected to his previous position as councillor for Ward 13 in Hamilton.
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Hamilton City Council References
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