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office</b></span><br />2007–2011</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">Riding established</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/Randy_Pettapiece" title="Randy Pettapiece">Randy Pettapiece</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Perth%E2%80%94Wellington_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Perth—Wellington (provincial electoral district)">Perth—Wellington</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 />2003–2007</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/Bert_Johnson_(Canadian_politician)" title="Bert Johnson (Canadian politician)">Bert Johnson</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">Riding abolished</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Perth%E2%80%94Middlesex" title="Perth—Middlesex">Perth—Middlesex</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="#Cabinet_positions">More...</a></th></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">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Financial planner</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Wilkinson</b> is a politician in <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada. He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Ontario" title="Legislative Assembly of Ontario">Legislative Assembly of Ontario</a>, from 2003 to 2011 representing the predominantly rural ridings of <a href="/wiki/Perth%E2%80%94Middlesex" title="Perth—Middlesex">Perth—Middlesex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perth%E2%80%94Wellington_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Perth—Wellington (provincial electoral district)">Perth—Wellington</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Ontario">Liberal Party</a>. He served in cabinet as Minister of Research and Innovation, Revenue and Environment. He was defeated in the 2011 election by Conservative <a href="/wiki/Randy_Pettapiece" title="Randy Pettapiece">Randy Pettapiece</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=John_Wilkinson_(Canadian_politician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before entering public life, Wilkinson was a financial planner in <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Ontario" title="Stratford, Ontario">Stratford</a>. He is a certified financial planner and a founder of Wilkinson & Keller Financial Planning Ltd,<sup id="cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Wilkinson_biography-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he is also a former chair of the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Wilkinson_biography-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked as the finance chair of his church organization for seven years. In 2002, he was awarded the Julia Award from the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Cystic_Fibrosis_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Association (page does not exist)">Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Association</a> for his volunteer work.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Wilkinson_biography-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a member of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Waterloo_Stratford_Campus" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Waterloo Stratford Campus">University of Waterloo Stratford Campus</a> Advisory Board.<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="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilkinson_(Canadian_politician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilkinson ran for the Ontario legislature in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Ontario_general_election" title="1999 Ontario general election">1999 election</a>, losing to <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a> incumbent <a href="/wiki/Bert_Johnson_(Canadian_politician)" title="Bert Johnson (Canadian politician)">Bert Johnson</a> by over 6000 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-results_1999_and_2003_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-results_1999_and_2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2003_Ontario_general_election" title="2003 Ontario general election">2003 election</a>, he defeated Johnson by about 1500 votes in a rematch.<sup id="cite_ref-results_1999_and_2003_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-results_1999_and_2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Liberals won the election,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on May 21, 2004 Wilkinson was named parliamentary assistant to <a href="/wiki/Leona_Dombrowsky" title="Leona Dombrowsky">Leona Dombrowsky</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Environment_and_Climate_Change" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change">Minister of the Environment</a>. </p><p>He was re-elected in the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ontario_general_election" title="2007 Ontario general election">2007 provincial election</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ontario_election_2007_results_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ontario_election_2007_results-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was named to <a href="/wiki/Executive_Council_of_Ontario" title="Executive Council of Ontario">provincial cabinet</a> as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Research_and_Innovation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Research and Innovation">Minister of Research and Innovation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bio_legislative_assembly_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bio_legislative_assembly-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_shuffle" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet shuffle">cabinet shuffle</a> on June 24, 2009, he became the province's <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Revenue_(Ontario)" title="Ministry of Revenue (Ontario)">Minister of Revenue</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bio_legislative_assembly_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bio_legislative_assembly-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on August 18, 2010 became <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Environment_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)">Minister of Environment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bio_legislative_assembly_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bio_legislative_assembly-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2011_Ontario_general_election" title="2011 Ontario general election">2011 election</a> he was narrowly defeated by Conservative <a href="/wiki/Randy_Pettapiece" title="Randy Pettapiece">Randy Pettapiece</a> by 210 votes. </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=John_Wilkinson_(Canadian_politician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cabinet positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable 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href="/wiki/Jim_Bradley_(politician)" title="Jim Bradley (politician)">Jim Bradley</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Dwight_Duncan" title="Dwight Duncan">Dwight Duncan</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Revenue_(Ontario)" title="Ministry of Revenue (Ontario)">Minister of Revenue</a></b><br />2009–2010 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Aggelonitis" title="Sophia Aggelonitis">Sophia Aggelonitis</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty" title="Dalton McGuinty">Dalton McGuinty</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Research_and_Innovation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Research and Innovation">Minister of Research and Innovation</a></b><br />2007–2009 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Milloy" title="John Milloy">John Milloy</a></b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_record">Electoral record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilkinson_(Canadian_politician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:668px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/2011_Ontario_general_election" title="2011 Ontario general election">2011 Ontario general election</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span><sup id="cite_ref-wemakevotingeasy.ca_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wemakevotingeasy.ca-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Randy_Pettapiece" title="Randy Pettapiece">Randy Pettapiece</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">14,845</td> <td style="text-align:right;">40.1</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+8.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td>John Wilkinson</td> <td style="text-align:right;">14,635</td> <td style="text-align:right;">39.5</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-7.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>Ellen Papenburg</td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,836</td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.8</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #99C955; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Ontario" title="Green Party of Ontario">Green</a></td> <td>Chris Desjardins</td> <td style="text-align:right;">918</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.5</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-5.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CC6699; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Family_Coalition_Party_of_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Family Coalition Party of Ontario">Family Coalition</a></td> <td>Irma DeVries</td> <td style="text-align:right;">627</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.7</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333CC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Ontario" title="Freedom Party of Ontario">Freedom</a></td> <td>Robby Smink</td> <td style="text-align:right;">164</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap"> 37,025</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">100.0 </span><sup id="cite_ref-wemakevotingeasy.ca_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wemakevotingeasy.ca-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2007_Ontario_general_election" title="2007 Ontario general election">2007 Ontario general election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td>John Wilkinson<sup id="cite_ref-Ontario_election_2007_results_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ontario_election_2007_results-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td style="text-align:right;">18,249</td> <td style="text-align:right;">47.2%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td>John Rutherford</td> <td style="text-align:right;">12,391</td> <td style="text-align:right;">32.0%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>Donna Hansen</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,922</td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #99C955; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Ontario" title="Green Party of Ontario">Green</a></td> <td>Anita Payne</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,997</td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.8%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CC6699; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Family_Coalition_Party_of_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Family Coalition Party of Ontario">Family Coalition</a></td> <td>Pat Bannon</td> <td style="text-align:right;">760</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.0%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>Kevin Allman</td> <td style="text-align:right;">216</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333CC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Ontario" title="Freedom Party of Ontario">Freedom</a></td> <td>Robby Smink</td> <td style="text-align:right;">143</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4%</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2003_Ontario_general_election" title="2003 Ontario general election">2003 Ontario general election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td>John Wilkinson<sup id="cite_ref-results_1999_and_2003_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-results_1999_and_2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td style="text-align:right;">17,017</td> <td style="text-align:right;">42.71</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.35 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td>Bert Johnson</td> <td style="text-align:right;">15,680</td> <td style="text-align:right;">39.36</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-12.64 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>Jack Verhulst</td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,703</td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.8</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.61 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #99C955; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Ontario" title="Green Party of Ontario">Green</a></td> <td>John Cowling</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,201</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.01 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CC6699; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Family_Coalition_Party_of_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Family Coalition Party of Ontario">Family Coalition</a></td> <td>Pat Bannon</td> <td style="text-align:right;">857</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.15</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-1.08 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333CC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Ontario" title="Freedom Party of Ontario">Freedom</a></td> <td>Robert Smink</td> <td style="text-align:right;">384</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.96 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1999_Ontario_general_election" title="1999 Ontario general election">1999 Ontario general election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bert_Johnson_(Canadian_politician)" title="Bert Johnson (Canadian politician)">Bert Johnson</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">22,065</td> <td style="text-align:right;">52 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td>John Wilkinson<sup id="cite_ref-results_1999_and_2003_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-results_1999_and_2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td style="text-align:right;">15,428</td> <td style="text-align:right;">36.36 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>Walter Edmund Vernon</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,053</td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.19 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #CC6699; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Family_Coalition_Party_of_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Family Coalition Party of Ontario">Family Coalition</a></td> <td>Pat Bannon</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,369</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.23 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #3333CC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Ontario" title="Freedom Party of Ontario">Freedom</a></td> <td>Robert J.W. Smink</td> <td style="text-align:right;">521</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.23 </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=John_Wilkinson_(Canadian_politician)&action=edit&section=5" 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 ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-John_Wilkinson_biography-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-John_Wilkinson_biography_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.johnwilkinson.onmpp.ca/bio.aspx?id=biography">John Wilkinson | Biography</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110706192707/http://www.johnwilkinson.onmpp.ca/bio.aspx?id=biography">Archived</a> 2011-07-06 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-campus/people-profiles/category/24">"Advisory Board profiles"</a>. 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