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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">David Ramsay</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Provincial_Parliament_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)">Ontario MPP</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1999–2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>New riding</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Vanthof" title="John Vanthof">John Vanthof</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Timiskaming%E2%80%94Cochrane_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Timiskaming—Cochrane (provincial electoral district)">Timiskaming—Cochrane</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1985–1999</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Havrot" title="Ed Havrot">Ed Havrot</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Riding abolished</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Timiskaming_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Timiskaming (provincial electoral district)">Timiskaming</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1948-04-23</span>)</span>April 23, 1948<br /><a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 29, 2020<span style="display:none">(2020-07-29)</span> (aged 72)<br /><a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democrat</a> → <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Belle_Vall%C3%A9e,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Belle Vallée, Ontario">Belle Vallée, Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Farmer</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David James Ramsay</b> (April 23, 1948 – July 29, 2020) was a Canadian politician in <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>. He was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a> member of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Ontario" title="Legislative Assembly of Ontario">Legislative Assembly of Ontario</a> in 1985 who <a href="/wiki/Crossed_the_floor" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossed the floor">crossed the floor</a> a year later to join the <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal party</a>. He represented the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ontario" title="Northern Ontario">northern Ontario</a> riding of <a href="/wiki/Timiskaming_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Timiskaming (provincial electoral district)">Timiskaming</a> from 1985 to 1999 and the redistributed riding of <a href="/wiki/Timiskaming%E2%80%94Cochrane_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Timiskaming—Cochrane (provincial electoral district)">Timiskaming—Cochrane</a> from 1999 to 2011. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of <a href="/wiki/David_Peterson" title="David Peterson">David Peterson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty" title="Dalton McGuinty">Dalton McGuinty</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, Ramsay moved to Canada with his parents at age one after having been adopted in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, and was raised in <a href="/wiki/Oakville,_Ontario" title="Oakville, Ontario">Oakville, Ontario</a>. He attended <a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Concordia University (Montreal)">Concordia University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, and after graduation worked as a farmer in <a href="/wiki/New_Liskeard,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="New Liskeard, Ontario">New Liskeard</a> and a clerk-treasurer in <a href="/wiki/Casey,_Ontario" title="Casey, Ontario">Casey Township</a>, in northern Ontario. He later served as president of the Timiskaming Federation of Agriculture in 1984-85, was a founding member of the Timiskaming Grain Growers Board, and served as chair of the Timiskaming Hospital Board for a time. Ramsay died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 29, 2020, at the age of 72.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_as_a_New_Democrat">Election as a New Democrat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Election as a New Democrat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1985_Ontario_general_election" title="1985 Ontario general election">1985 provincial election</a> he ran as the <a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democrat</a> candidate in the northern Ontario riding of <a href="/wiki/Timiskaming_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Timiskaming (provincial electoral district)">Timiskaming</a>. He defeated <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a> incumbent <a href="/wiki/Ed_Havrot" title="Ed Havrot">Ed Havrot</a> by almost 3000 votes, as the once-powerful Tory machine in northern Ontario began to lose its support base.<sup id="cite_ref-1985_results_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1985_results-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as a critic of Small Business, Financial Institutions, and Agriculture and Food. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Becoming_a_Liberal">Becoming a Liberal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Becoming a Liberal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 6 October 1986, Ramsay <a href="/wiki/Crossed_the_floor" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossed the floor">crossed the floor</a> to join the governing <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberals</a>, claiming that Northern Ontario needed greater representation in government. (Ramsay also seems to have disliked the Toronto leadership of the NDP, describing it as out of touch with his rural/populist base.) </p><p>Despite an intense effort by the NDP to defeat Ramsay in the <a href="/wiki/1987_Ontario_general_election" title="1987 Ontario general election">1987 election</a>, he won re-election by over 4,000 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-1987_results_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1987_results-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 29 September 1987, Ramsay was appointed to <a href="/wiki/David_Peterson" title="David Peterson">David Peterson</a>'s cabinet as <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Community_Safety_and_Correctional_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services">Minister of Correctional Services</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1987PetCab_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1987PetCab-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following a cabinet shuffle on 2 August 1989, he was named <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture,_Food_and_Rural_Affairs_(Ontario)" title="Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Ontario)">Minister of Agriculture and Food</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1989PetCab_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1989PetCab-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ramsay kept his seat in the <a href="/wiki/1990_Ontario_general_election" title="1990 Ontario general election">1990 election</a> that defeated the Liberal government and brought Ramsay's former party, the NDP, to power under <a href="/wiki/Bob_Rae" title="Bob Rae">Bob Rae</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1990_results_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1990_results-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party in the <a href="/wiki/1992_Ontario_Liberal_Party_leadership_election" title="1992 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election">1992 Liberal leadership convention</a>, but placed last in a field of six candidates.<sup id="cite_ref-1992LibLdrship_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1992LibLdrship-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like fellow candidate <a href="/wiki/Greg_Sorbara" title="Greg Sorbara">Greg Sorbara</a>, his campaign included both right-wing and left-wing elements. He supported tax reduction (including lower gasoline taxes, a reduction in the <a href="/wiki/Provincial_Sales_Tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Provincial Sales Tax">Provincial Sales Tax</a> and a one-year moratorium on the federal <a href="/wiki/Goods_and_Services_Tax_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goods and Services Tax (Canada)">Goods and Services Tax</a>), and favoured open <a href="/wiki/Sunday_shopping" title="Sunday shopping">Sunday shopping</a> and allowing corner stores to sell beer and wine. He also supported pay equity measures, and described himself as pro-choice on <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>. </p><p>In the provincial elections of <a href="/wiki/1995_Ontario_general_election" title="1995 Ontario general election">1995</a><sup id="cite_ref-1995_results_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1995_results-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/1999_Ontario_general_election" title="1999 Ontario general election">1999</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1999_results_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1999_results-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ramsay's primary opposition came not from the New Democrats but the Progressive Conservatives, whose leader <a href="/wiki/Mike_Harris" title="Mike Harris">Mike Harris</a> represented a neighbouring riding. He won by a clear margin on both occasions. In 1996, he endorsed <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Duncan" title="Dwight Duncan">Dwight Duncan</a>'s bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ramsay served as caucus chair from 1993 to 1994 and again from 1999 to 2003. </p><p>With the victory of the Liberals under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty" title="Dalton McGuinty">Dalton McGuinty</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2003_Ontario_general_election" title="2003 Ontario general election">2003 election</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2003_results_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2003_results-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ramsay returned to cabinet as <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Natural_Resources_and_Forestry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry">Minister of Natural Resources</a> on 23 October 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-2003McGuintyCab_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2003McGuintyCab-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also given responsibility for <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Aboriginal Affairs (Ontario)">Aboriginal Affairs</a> on 29 June 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-2005McGuintyCab0630_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2005McGuintyCab0630-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2007, Ramsay was appointed Ontario's first <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (Ontario)">Minister of Aboriginal Affairs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ontario_general_election" title="2007 Ontario general election">2007 provincial election</a>, Ramsay won by 634 votes over NDP candidate <a href="/wiki/John_Vanthof" title="John Vanthof">John Vanthof</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2007_Election_Results_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2007_Election_Results-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ramsay expected to continue as a minister but was dropped from cabinet. Instead he was appointed as McGuinty's Parliamentary Assistant.<sup id="cite_ref-McGuinty2007Cab_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGuinty2007Cab-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2011 he said that he was retiring from politics and would not run in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Ontario_general_election" title="2011 Ontario general election">2011 election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cabinet_positions">Cabinet positions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cabinet positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border-top: 5px solid #EA6D6A" colspan="3"><b>Ontario provincial government of <a href="/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty" title="Dalton McGuinty">Dalton McGuinty</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th colspan="3">Cabinet posts (2) </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Predecessor </th> <th scope="col" style="width:290px;text-align:center;">Office </th> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Successor </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b>New Ministry</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (Ontario)">Minister of Aboriginal Affairs</a></b><br />2007 (June–October) </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bryant_(politician)" title="Michael Bryant (politician)">Michael Bryant</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Ouellette" title="Jerry Ouellette">Jerry Ouellette</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Natural_Resources_and_Forestry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry">Minister of Natural Resources</a></b><br />2003-2007<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Also responsible for Aboriginal Affairs (2005-2007)</span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Donna_Cansfield" title="Donna Cansfield">Donna Cansfield</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; border-top: 5px solid #EA6D6A" colspan="3"><b>Ontario provincial government of <a href="/wiki/David_Peterson" title="David Peterson">David Peterson</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th colspan="3">Cabinet posts (2) </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Predecessor </th> <th scope="col" style="width:290px;text-align:center;">Office </th> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Successor </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Jack_Riddell" title="Jack Riddell">Jack Riddell</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture,_Food_and_Rural_Affairs_(Ontario)" title="Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Ontario)">Minister of Agriculture and Food</a></b><br />1989–1990 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Elmer_Buchanan" title="Elmer Buchanan">Elmer Buchanan</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ken_Keyes_(politician)" title="Ken Keyes (politician)">Ken Keyes</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Community_Safety_and_Correctional_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services">Minister of Correctional Services</a></b><br />1987–1989 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Patten" title="Richard Patten">Richard Patten</a></b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Ramsay_(Ontario_politician)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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