- Ed Doyle
Edward Doyle (born
November 30 ,1935 in Franquelin,Quebec ) is a formerpolitician inOntario ,Canada . He was a Progressive Conservative member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.Doyle was educated in Montreal, and did not attend university. He worked as a radio and television news journalist in Montreal, Kitchener and Hamilton, and was a member of the
Experimental Aircraft Association .Doyle was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Shirley Collins by about 3,500 votes in the Hamilton-area riding of
Wentworth East (incumbent New DemocratMark Morrow was third). He served for the next four years as a backbencher supporter ofMike Harris 's government. He did not play a major role in parliament, though he stood in as speaker of the assembly fromSeptember 26 toOctober 2 ,1996 , after the resignation ofAl McLean .Doyle supported amalgamating the city of Hamilton, and co-chaired a series of provincial consultations on the
Canadian Pension Plan in 1996. He did not seek re-election in 1999.
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