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.

Despite sharp ideological differences, Reform's populism struck a responsive chord with many NDP voters who were dissatisfied with Audrey McLaughlin's leadership and Ontario supporters who were frustrated with the government of NDP Premier Bob Rae.

Rae entered into negotiations with both Premier Miller and Peterson, the latter begun by a phone call from Rae to Peterson shortly after election day.

As Premier, Rae placed a cap on enrollment into medical schools.

By 1995, the governing New Democratic Party and incumbent Premier Bob Rae had become extremely unpopular with the electorate, largely due to the state of the Ontario economy and its record debt and deficit amidst a Canada-wide recession.

In a series of cost-cutting measures, then-Ontario Premier Bob Rae announced a " temporary " reduction in spending on services, causing all of the expansions of the 1990s to be reduced or eliminated.

Bob Rae became Premier of Ontario during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

She distanced the ONDP from former Premier Bob Rae, now interim leader of the federal Liberal Party of Canada, by pointing out that he is the exception to the rule of NDP Premiers in other provinces who have been able to balance provincial budgets.

John Rae, the brother of former NDP Premier Bob Rae, currently serves as Power Corp .' s Executive Vice President.

* Premier of Ontario: David Peterson then Bob Rae

* Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae

* Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae

* Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae

* August 2-Bob Rae, politician and 21st Premier of Ontario

* Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae

Federally, the riding was represented by New Democrats from 1965 until 1988 ; past MPs include Bob Rae ( 1978-1982 ), who resigned to become leader of the provincial NDP, and was later Premier of Ontario in the NDP majority government of 1990-1995.

On September 15, 2006, she withdrew from the leadership race and threw her support behind former Ontario Premier Bob Rae.

She was previously a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and briefly served as a minister in the government of Premier Bob Rae.

He supported former Ontario New Democratic Party leader and Premier Bob Rae for the federal Liberal leadership in the 2006 leadership race.

During the campaign itself, McLeod further alienated many voters with an overly aggressive performance in the party leaders ' debate, clashing with Premier Bob Rae and waving her party's platform before the cameras on several occasions.

When he died of leukemia on August 18, 2011, he was mourned by people of all political stripes and beliefs, including former BC Premier Harcourt and Bob Rae, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

McCurdy had been endorsed by Premier Bob Rae, while Rousseau was an ally of party dissidents such as Peter Kormos.

The Premier then directs the Governor to appoint other members of parliament to the Executive Council of New South Wales known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor will take direction on the use of executive power, an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

Throughout 1964 and 1965 he played typically four, then five-piece kits, but moved to a Premier double bass kit in June 1966.

Voroshilov was then made Deputy Premier responsible for cultural matters.

In his memoirs, published in 1993, Trudeau wrote that during the 1950s, he wanted to teach at the Université de Montréal, but was blacklisted three times from doing so by Maurice Duplessis, then Premier of Quebec.

He then became an adviser to both Cain and Cain's successor as Premier, Joan Kirner.

Keegan was given more money for players, and he brought in Rob Lee, Paul Bracewell and Barry Venison and the club won the then First Division Championship at the end of the 1992 – 93 season, earning promotion to the then new Premier League.

His preselection for the seat reportedly irritated then Premier Dick Hamer, who disliked Kennett's campaigning style, and had endorsed the sitting member, Haddon Storey.

The game resulted in a 1 – 0 win leaving the club a 2nd-round tie against then Premier League team Watford eventually losing 0 – 1.

Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai negotiated the terms of the ceasefire with France and then imposed them on the Vietminh.

Among those who attended were Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Lise Thibault, various politicians ( including then Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, and then Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard ), Gordie Howe, Jean Béliveau, and then Canadiens team captain Saku Koivu.

Lang then contended that the Act was rendered null and void by contravening the 1833 prohibition of slavery throughout the British Empire ; the Premier held that the actions of the Lyons government deprived the State of New South Wales of paying the wages of State employees and that this necessarily constituted an ( illegal ) state of slavery.

Following then, the Premier Scottish Baronets were the Innes baronets of that Ilk ( cr.

Since then the descendants of Sir Francis Annesley Bt., the Annesley baronets have been the Premier Baronets of Ireland.

As soon as The Football Association approved this move in May 2002, former Wimbledon FC supporters founded their own replacement club, the semi-professional AFC Wimbledon, and the club's support overwhelmingly shifted to the new team, who in their second and third seasons of existence earned successive promotions to the First then Premier Divisions of the Isthmian League.

As the protests escalated and then Party-chief Zhao Ziyang was removed from office, Jiang was selected by the Party leaders as a compromise candidate over Tianjin's Li Ruihuan, Premier Li Peng, Li Xiannian, Chen Yun, and the retired elders to become the new General Secretary.

The media subsequently linked the event to Deng Xiaoping, then carrying out the daily duties of the Premier.

In 2005 the government of Premier Jean Charest decided not to renew the clause, abrogate Article 5 of the Public Education Act, modify Article 41 of the Quebec Charter of Rights and then eliminate the choice in moral and religious instruction that existed previously and, finally, impose a controversial new Ethics and religious culture curriculum to all schools, even the private ones.

Zhū Róngjī ( pinyin: Zhū Róngjī ; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi ; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928 in Changsha, Hunan ) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.

In 1989, then Premier Li Peng, in cooperation with the then Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping, was able to use the office of the Premier to declare martial law in Beijing and order the military crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.