Rose-Marie Margaret Ur is a Canadian

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 politician

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. She was a member of the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1993 until 2005 and, in her final term in office, represented the riding

Electoral district (Canada)

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 of Middlesex—Kent—Lambton for the Liberal Party

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Biography

Ur was educated at the Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, receiving certification as a registered nurse assistant in 1964. She practised in this field from 1963 to 1966, then left to work as a farmer until 1990. She also worked as a constituency assistant to provincial Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Doug Reycraft

Doug Reycraft

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 from 1986 to 1988, and federal Member of Parliament

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 (MP) Ralph Ferguson

Ralph Ferguson

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 from 1988 to 1993. Ur is a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture

Ontario Federation of Agriculture

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She was first elected to parliament in the 1993 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1993

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, defeating her nearest opponent by almost 11,000 votes in the old riding of Lambton—Middlesex

Lambton—Middlesex

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. She was re-elected by similarly large pluralities in Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

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 in the elections of 1997

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 and 2000

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Ur faced a difficult re-election in the federal election of 2004

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, defeating Bev Shipley

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Beverly T. "Bev" Shipley is a farmer and Conservative Party politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected as Member of Parliament for the Lambton—Kent—Middlesex electoral district in 2006, re-elected in 2008 and 2011.A graduate of Agriculture Technology, Shipley is married to Barb Shipley ...

 of the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada

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 by only 164 votes. Shipley could have requested a recount, but declined.

Ur was one of the most socially conservative

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 members of the Liberal caucus, strongly opposed to abortion

Abortion

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 and same-sex marriage

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. She was also an opponent of the federal gun registry

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, and sought to eliminate the program in late 2004. Ur was never appointed as a parliamentary secretary

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In the spring of 2005, Rose-Marie announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2006 federal election

Canadian federal election, 2006

The 2006 Canadian federal election was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 39th Parliament of Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada won the greatest number of seats: 40.3% of seats, or 124 out of 308, up from 99 seats in 2004, and 36.3% of votes:...

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