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Preceded by
  
Mike Cooper

Children
  
2

Succeeded by
  
Riding abolished

Name
  
Gary Leadston


Constituency
  
Kitchener—Wilmot

Role
  
Politician

Spouse(s)
  
Anna Leadston

Resigned
  
1999

Gary Leadston Guelph native and former area MPP Gary Leadston dies at 72

Born
  
June 24, 1941Guelph, Ontario (
1941-06-24
)

Political party
  
Died
  
December 2, 2013, Rideau Ferry, Ontario, Drummond/North Elmsley, Canada

Party
  
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Gary L. Leadston (June 24, 1941 – December 2, 2013) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.

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Background

Leadston was born in Guelph, Ontario. He was educated at Ontario Police College and Wilfrid Laurier University. He worked as a police constable in Kitchener, Ontario. He was also the founding member of the Big Brothers Association in Kitchener Waterloo in the 1970s and served as its President in 1975-1976.

Politics

Leadston served as a city councillor for Kitchener City Council from 1979 to 1994, and also served on the Regional Municipality of Waterloo from 1981 to 1994. In 1987, he was named as chair of the Waterloo Regional Police Commission.

Leadston was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Shelley Schlueter and incumbent New Democratic Mike Cooper by a plurality of 7,000 votes. He served as a backbench supporter of the government of Mike Harris for the next four years.

In September 1996, he put his name forward to run for speaker to replace the disgraced Al McLean. However Chris Stockwell won out over a slate of seven other candidates including Leadston.

In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of ridings from 130 to 103. This meant that sitting MPPs had to compete for re-nomination in some ridings. Leadston ran for the Kitchener Centre PC nomination in 1999, but was defeated by Wayne Wettlaufer. In 2000, he sought the federal Canadian Alliance nomination in Lanark—Carleton, but lost to Scott Reid.

Later life

Leadston died at his home on December 2, 2013, from cancer.

References

Gary Leadston Wikipedia


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