A number of their songs also express the band's progressive political leanings (" The Greatest Man in America ", for instance, mocks Rush Limbaugh, and " Big Fish " lambastes former Premier of Ontario Mike Harris ).

Reform's ambitions of becoming a national party and spreading into the east, particularly into Ontario, were helped by the rise of Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris to power in 1995.

The show would feature some of the band's most famous instruments, including Mike Rutherford's double neck that consisted of a MicroFret six string bass and a Rickenbacker 12 string guitar, and Phil Collins ' largest drum kit with Genesis featuring four timbales, a red seven-piece Ludwig kit ( and later a natural finish Premier kit in same configuration ,) a Fibes Crystallite snare, a set of five red temple blocks, a vibraphone, a set of orchestral bells, tubular bells, and a set of tuned tambourines ( which can be heard on " In the Cage.

* Mike Rann, Former Premier of South Australia, and future Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

Michael Deane " Mike " Harris ( born January 23, 1945 ) was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002.

Shortly after his first election win in 1995, Mike Harris faced his first crisis as Premier.

Premier Mike Harris asked former federal energy Minister Jake Epp to study and make recommendations on the problems with the Pickering restart.

In the immediate aftermath of the merger announcement, some Conservative activists hoped to recruit former Ontario Premier Mike Harris for the leadership.

Despite his experience, he was not appointed to cabinet by the new Premier, Mike Harris.

He was not Mike Harris's preferred choice for the position ( the Premier supported Margaret Marland ) but won with support from members in all three parties.

A principal secretary to former PC Premier Bill Davis, Tory was regarded as more moderate than Mike Harris and the mostly rural MPPs who made up the majority of his caucus.

Shortly before the 2001 election, he faced a crisis when a CJC inquiry-the Shepherdson inquiry-revealed that a number of MPs and party activists — including Deputy Premier Jim Elder, a former State Secretary and newly elected MP Mike Kaiser, and a senior adviser to Wayne Goss — had been engaged in breaches of the Electoral Act by falsely enrolling people to boost their faction's strength in internal party ballots.

* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt

* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt

* Premier of Ontario-Bob Rae then Mike Harris

* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt then Glen Clark

* Premier of Ontario: Mike Harris

When the parliamentary wing of the National Party deposed Bjelke-Petersen and elected one of the dissident ministers, Mike Ahern, as new Leader of the National Party, Sir Joh initially refused to resign as Premier and Sir Walter resisted calls to dismiss him.

Further growth was achieved during the " Days of Action ", a series of one-day general strikes between late 1995 and 1998 against the ruling Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier Mike Harris.

* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt

Under Premier Mike Harcourt, she served as Minister of Social Services from 1993 to 1996.

At the same time, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, who some suggested were kindred spirits in policy and direction to Reform and Blue Tory PCs, had formed a provincial government under Premier Mike Harris.

The Socreds under Premier Rita Johnston was reduced to third party status, while the New Democratic Party of Mike Harcourt formed the government.

Under this policy, the province will take back $ 1. 5 Billion worth of programs funded by Ontario ’ s municipalities by 2018, reversing previous downloading of provincial responsibilities which occurred during Mike Harris ’ tenure as Premier.

Nial ( from " Nested Interactive Array Language ") is a high-level array programming language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The paper endorsed the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in many of the provincial elections from the 1940s to the 1980s, and endorsed strategic voting to try to defeat Mike Harris in 1999 which they failed to do.

Mike Klander, the executive vice-president of the federal Liberals ' Ontario wing, resigned after making posts on his blog comparing Chow to a Chow Chow dog and calling her husband an " asshole ".

3 star graduates Bryan Murray ( Barry's Bay, Ontario ) Mike Daoust ( Brockville, Ontario ) and Guy Come ( Iroquois Falls, Ontario ) of the Brockville Braves won the 2001 NCAA National Championship with the Plattsburgh Cardinals vs the RIT Tigers.

The Reform Party of Canada held close association with the provincial Progressive Conservative parties in Alberta under Ralph Klein and Ontario under Mike Harris which held similar economic policies.

Student groups including the Canadian Federation of Students have objected, noting the significant recent increases in tuition fees in Ontario under the government of Mike Harris, and the 57 per cent increase in tuition fees during Rae's own tenure as premier.

Eves is a long time close friend of fellow northern Ontario MPP Mike Harris.

When Mike Harris stepped down as Conservative leader, Eves decided to run in the 2002 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership election.

He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.

However, it is most widely known as the name of the political movement and policy document advocated by Mike Harris, the Progressive Conservative premier of the Canadian province of Ontario from 1995 to 2002.

On April 1, 1997, and January 1, 1998, the Ontario government under the leadership of Mike Harris transferred, or downloaded, several thousand kilometres of provincially maintained highways to the various municipalities in which they are located.

The band was originally formed in 1981 by lead vocalist and guitarist Johnnie Dee ( of Niagara Falls, Ontario ), Keyboardist Brad Bent ( of Toronto, Ontario ), and original drummer Mike Lengyell, formerly with The Diodes.

* March 23-Ernie Eves is elected to replace Mike Harris as party leader at the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership convention

* April 15-Ernie Eves becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mike Harris

Davis's reputation within the Ontario Progressive Conservatives was compromised during the 1990s by the party's shift to the right under Mike Harris.

* Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario, Canada.

In 1872, the lawyer Oliver Mowat became Premier of Ontario and remained as premier until 1896.

In April 2007, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Kim Craitor suggested that local brewers should be able to sell their beer in local corner stores ; however, the motion was quickly rejected by Premier Dalton McGuinty.

** Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as the 17th Premier of Ontario.

The gas tax in the budget soured Clark's relationship with Ontario Premier Bill Davis, even though both were Red Tories and both were Progressive Conservatives.

Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis's criticism of the gas tax was used in the Liberals ' Ontario television ads, and the swing in support from the Tories to the Liberals in that province proved to be decisive in the campaign.

The Premier of Newfoundland at the time, Clyde Wells, said it was " inappropriate for the Crown to be intruding in political affairs that way ," and Bill Dawson, a law professor at the University of Western Ontario, described Sauvé's use of the word " pact " as " injudicious.

John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC ( January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982 ) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.

In 1961, he became the 17th Premier of Ontario, and served in that capacity until 1971.

Premiers include Paul Okalik, 1st Premier of Nunavut, and Dalton McGuinty, 24th Premier of Ontario.

In March 2011, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the allocation of $ 12. 4 billion of future expansion of the Toronto subway and RT, part of which will cover the expense of rebuilding the Scarborough RT to use modern light rail cars.

After winning several ACTRA Awards, Clarkson ended her job with The Fifth Estate in 1983 and was subsequently appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, John Black Aird, on the advice of his Premier, William Davis, as the Agent General for Ontario in France, acting in this role as a cultural liaison between the province and the country, as well as promoting Ontario in several other European states.

The Premier design, as well as its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bramalea, Ontario, Canada, were the starting point for the sleek LH sedans such as the Eagle Vision and Chrysler 300M.

The election, which was called by Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Premier Ernie Eves, is majority won by the Dalton McGuinty-led Ontario Liberal Party.

Among the general public, McKenna beat former New Democratic Party Ontario Premier Bob Rae by a margin of 23 to 11 while among self-identified Liberals, McKenna beat former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada John Manley by a margin of 28 to 13.

The planned all-new 1988 Renault Premier, a joint development effort between American Motors and Renault, and for which the Brampton Assembly plant ( Brampton, Ontario ) was built, was sold by Chrysler as the 1988 – 1992 Eagle Premier, with a rebadged Dodge Monaco variant available from 1990 – 1992.

John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario, was from Cornwall, and is buried in St. Andrews West at the Catholic Church cemetery.

* John Sandfield Macdonald, prominent lawyer and the first Premier of Ontario

Shortly after Manley announced his retirement from federal politics, Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario and close friend of Manley, appointed him to chair a royal commission on the energy system of Ontario in the wake of the eastern North American blackout of 2003.