John Wilkinson (Canadian politician)

John Wilkinson is a politician in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

, representing the predominantly rural riding of Perth—Wellington

Perth—Wellington (provincial electoral district)

Perth—Wellington is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since the 2007 provincial election....

for the Liberal Party, and serves as provincial Minister of Environment

Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)

The Ministry of the Environment, established in 1972, is the portfolio in the Executive Council of Ontario responsible for addressing the environmental issues affecting the environmental protection of the Canadian province of Ontario and the World...

.

Before entering public life, Wilkinson was a financial planner in Stratford

Stratford, Ontario

Stratford is a city on the Avon River in Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada with a population of 32,000.When the area was first settled by Europeans in 1832, the townsite and the river were named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is the seat of Perth County. Stratford was...

. He is a certified financial planner and a founder of Wilkinson & Keller Financial Planning Ltd, he is also a former chair of the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. He also worked as the finance chair of his church organization for seven years. In 2002, he was awarded the Julia Award from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Association for his volunteer work.

Wilkinson first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1999 election

Ontario general election, 1999

An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, losing to Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

incumbent Bert Johnson by over 6000 votes. In the 2003 election

Ontario general election, 2003

The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, he defeated Johnson by about 1500 votes in a rematch.

The Liberals won the election, and on May 21, 2004 Wilkinson was named parliamentary assistant to Leona Dombrowsky

Leona Dombrowsky

Leona Dombrowsky is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty....

, the Minister of the Environment.

He was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election

Ontario general election, 2007

The Ontario general election of 2007 was held on October 10, 2007 to elect members of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular...

, and was named to provincial cabinet

Executive Council of Ontario

The Executive Council of Ontario plays an important role in theGovernment of Ontario, in accordance with the Westminster system....

as Minister of Research and Innovation. In a cabinet shuffle

Cabinet shuffle

In the parliamentary system a cabinet shuffle or reshuffle is an informal term for an event that occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet....

on June 24, 2009, he became the province's Minister of Revenue

Ministry of Revenue (Ontario)

The Ministry of Revenue administers most of the province's major tax statutes as well as a number of tax credit, incentive and benefit programs. The tax revenues collected provide the fiscal foundation upon which many of the government's programs rely...

and on August 18, 2010 became Minister of Environment

Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)

Electoral record

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|John Wilkinson
|align="right"|18,249
|align="right"|47.2%
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|John Rutherford
|align="right"|12,391
|align="right"|32.0%
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|Donna Hansen
|align="right"|3,922
|align="right"|10.1%
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|Anita Payne
|align="right"|2,997
|align="right"|7.8%
|align="right"|
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|Pat Bannon
|align="right"|760
|align="right"|2.0%
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|Kevin Allman
|align="right"|216
|align="right"|0.6%
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|Robby Smink
|align="right"|143
|align="right"|0.4%
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|}

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|John Wilkinson
|align="right"|17,017
|align="right"|42.71
|align="right"|+6.35
|-

|Bert Johnson
|align="right"|15,680
|align="right"|39.36
|align="right"|-12.64
|-

|Jack Verhulst
|align="right"|4,703
|align="right"|11.8
|align="right"|+4.61
|-

|John Cowling
|align="right"|1,201
|align="right"|3.01
|-

|Pat Bannon
|align="right"|857
|align="right"|2.15
|align="right"|-1.08
|-

|Robert Smink
|align="right"|384
|align="right"|0.96
|}

|-

|Bert Johnson

Bert Johnson

Bert Johnson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003....

|align="right"|22,065
|align="right"|52
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|John Wilkinson
|align="right"|15,428
|align="right"|36.36
|-

|Walter Edmund Vernon
|align="right"|3,053
|align="right"|7.19
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|Pat Bannon
|align="right"|1,369
|align="right"|3.23
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|Robert J.W. Smink
|align="right"|521
|align="right"|1.23
|}

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