- Jack Carroll
Jack Carroll (born
November 9 ,1942 in Peterborough,Ontario ) is apolitician in Ontario,Canada . He was a Progressive Conservative member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. Carroll was educated at theUniversity of Toronto , and worked as a high school teacher. He also served as an executive of General Motors of Canada Ltd., and owned a car dealership.In the 1995 provincial election, Carroll was elected in the riding of
Chatham—Kent over Liberal Mike Ferguson by 546 votes (New DemocratRandy Hope finished third). He served as a backbench supporter ofMike Harris 's government for the next four years, and was aparliamentary assistant from 1996 to 1999.In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. Several sitting MPPs were forced to run against one another, and Carroll was defeated by Liberal MPP
Pat Hoy by 8,001 votes in the new riding ofChatham—Kent—Essex . During the election, the national media reported an extremely large demonstration against the Progressive Conservative government in Chatham.Carroll supported the Reform Party at the federal level in the 1990s, and endorsed Tom Long's bid to lead the
Canadian Alliance in 2000 ("Windsor Star", 12 May 2000).Jack Carroll is also the name of a student from Merstham, who is a wikipedia fanatic, regularly trawling the site for matters of personal interest
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