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Madeleine Meilleur’s seat at Queen’s Park is vacant and Coun. Mathieu Fleury won’t try to fill it, he says.
The former attorney general officially resigned as the MPP for Ottawa-Vanier on June 30, after giving notice earlier in the month that she’d be retiring. On her way out she touted Fleury, the councillor for Rideau-Vanier, as a superbly qualified successor. She had the same job before jumping to provincial politics in 2003.
Meilleur has been Ontario’s most prominent female francophone politician and a stalwart promoter of Franco-Ontarian rights and culture, leaving politics at age 68 after previous careers as a nurse and then a lawyer. Fleury’s barely 30 but in his second term as a councillor; in his first election, a swimming instructor at a city pool at the time (albeit with a master’s degree from the University of Ottawa), he squeaked past veteran incumbent Georges Bédard. Then in 2014 he handily beat two strong challengers. Now he chairs the city’s social-housing agency and the group making the city’s 2017 preparations.
He kicked the tires on the job, saying publicly he was considering it and had talked with other politicians about its demands and the challenges of commuting between Ottawa and Toronto.
But ultimately he decided against it. “I’m not planning to,” he said Wednesday afternoon.
That leaves the field open for other Liberals to contest what’s generally considered a very safe seat for the party.
Premier Kathleen Wynne has until the end of the year to call a byelection in Ottawa-Vanier. She’ll probably pair it with a byelection in a vacant Scarborough riding, though, which has to be called earlier in the fall.
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The former attorney general officially resigned as the MPP for Ottawa-Vanier on June 30, after giving notice earlier in the month that she’d be retiring. On her way out she touted Fleury, the councillor for Rideau-Vanier, as a superbly qualified successor. She had the same job before jumping to provincial politics in 2003.
Meilleur has been Ontario’s most prominent female francophone politician and a stalwart promoter of Franco-Ontarian rights and culture, leaving politics at age 68 after previous careers as a nurse and then a lawyer. Fleury’s barely 30 but in his second term as a councillor; in his first election, a swimming instructor at a city pool at the time (albeit with a master’s degree from the University of Ottawa), he squeaked past veteran incumbent Georges Bédard. Then in 2014 he handily beat two strong challengers. Now he chairs the city’s social-housing agency and the group making the city’s 2017 preparations.
He kicked the tires on the job, saying publicly he was considering it and had talked with other politicians about its demands and the challenges of commuting between Ottawa and Toronto.
But ultimately he decided against it. “I’m not planning to,” he said Wednesday afternoon.
That leaves the field open for other Liberals to contest what’s generally considered a very safe seat for the party.
Premier Kathleen Wynne has until the end of the year to call a byelection in Ottawa-Vanier. She’ll probably pair it with a byelection in a vacant Scarborough riding, though, which has to be called earlier in the fall.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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