Results, Ridings and Candidates
Oakville
2008 Results
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View these results in the interactive map »- Terence Young
- Blake Poland
- Bonnie Brown (Incumbent)
- Michelle Bilek
Terence Young
Party: Conservative Party of Canada
Birthdate: July 24, 1952
Age: 56
Birthplace: Toronto
Education: BA in political and social sciences, York University; attended Osgoode Hall Law School for one year
Profession: Policy director
Marital Status: Married
Name of Spouse: Gloria
Children: Two - Hart and Madeline
Career Background: Former staff manager with Bell Canada. President of Policy Alliance Inc., specializing in government relations, business development and strategic communications.
Community Activities: Has volunteered with Halton Crime Stoppers, Community Policing, Glen Abbey Residents' Association, and the United Way. He has assisted numerous hospitals in recent years as a consultant and served as a volunteer on the board of directors of two seniors' residences: St. Anne's Tower and St. Hilda's Tower. Worked as a government relations consultant and assisted various groups dealings with the Ontario government free of charge, including the Canadian Opera Company, Family Alliance Ontario and Canadian Veterans Remembered. He is a co-founder of the non-partisan Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians in 2000 and is currently vice-chair.
Electoral History
Provincial: Elected in Halton Centre in the 1995 provincial election.
Federal: Ran unsuccessfully in this riding in the 2006 general election.
Contact information:
Blake Poland
Party: Green Party of Canada
Birthdate: Aug. 23, 1962
Age: 46
Birthplace: Montreal
Education: PhD in human/health geography from McMaster University
Profession: University professor
Marital Status: Married
Name of Spouse: Brenda
Children: One - Naomi
Career Background: Currently director, Collaborative Program in Community Development and professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Previously director, MHSc Program in Health Promotion with the University of Toronto, research scientist with the Addiction Research Foundation and a post-doctoral fellow with the University of Toronto's Centre for Health Promotion.
Community Activities: Board member of Oakvillegreen Conservation Association and founding/steering committee member of the Oakville Sustainability Initiative.
Contact information:
Telephone (work): 416-978-7542
Telephone (cell): 905-338-0725
Bonnie Brown
Party: Liberal Party of Canada
Birthdate: March 2, 1941
Age: 67
Birthplace: Toronto
Education: Attended the University of Western Ontario for two years; Ontario teacher's certificate from Lakeshore Teacher's College
Profession: Teacher
Marital Status: Married
Name of Spouse: Ron Coupland
Children: Four - Andrea, Lindsay, Peggy, Caroline
Career Background: Teacher, social worker and consultant. For six years, was executive director of Parental Stress Services/Parents Anonymous. In 1990, she became assistant to Beth Phinney, MP for Hamilton-Mountain.
Community Activities: Chaired the Halton cancer study and children's mental health steering committees, Child Abuse Council, Halton District health council and Halton daycare advisory committee. Served on boards including the United Way, Elizabeth Fry and Halton Alcohol and Drug Addiction Programme. Founder of Oakville Track Club and a former governor of Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
Electoral History
Municipal: 1976-78 - school trustee, Halton Separate School Board; 1978-80 - regional councillor, regional municipality of Halton; 1985-88 - town councillor, Oakville .
Federal: Oakville-Milton: defeated in 1988; elected in 1993. Elected in Oakville in 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2006.
Political History
Committee: Currently a member of the House committee on public safety and national security. Former vice-chair, committee on human resources development and the status of persons with disabilities. Former member: industry; Canadian heritage; public accounts. Chair: standing committee on health; sub-committee on committee budgets of the liaison committee.
Caucus: Currently co-chair of the Liberal caucus committee on social affairs and a member of the Liberal planning and priorities committee and the Liberal caucus committees on foreign affairs and justice. Chaired the parliamentary steel caucus and the national caucus committee on social policy.
Contact information:
Telephone: 905-815-1660
Michelle Bilek
Party: New Democratic Party
Age: 35
Education: Studied psychology and sociology at McMaster University and women's studies and gender studies at York University.
Profession: Teacher
Career Background: Currently a high school teacher. Has also worked in health care and gerontology.
Community Activities: On the board of directors for the United Nations Association in Canada's Toronto chapter. A member of the Council of Canadians, Canadian Peace Alliance, GreenPeace, WWF, Fair Vote, Oakvillegreen, Halton Peace Network, Make Poverty History, Taking It Globally and the Take Back the Night committee for Sexual Assualt & Violence Intervention Services of Halton.
Contact information:
Telephone: 416-953-5569
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