" It says something about Hunter's character he could write such nasty, disgusting stuff about young girls in Thailand ," said NDP MPP Marilyn Churley.

However, this name change was not supported by all members, who created a new Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, headed by the former MPP leader and president of Mongolia, Nambaryn Enkhbayar.

In October 2006, Tabuns was voted Best MPP by Now Magazine readers, for his positions on climate change, the Portlands Energy Centre, and early childhood learning centres in his constituency.

In early July 2009, MPP introduced a television ad spot advocating taxing and regulating marijuana as a sensible policy change for California, a state facing a huge budget deficit.

( She was succeeded as the MPP for Oriole by her son, David Caplan, who went on to serve as a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty.

On January 9, 2009, Progressive Conservative MPP Laurie Scott announced her resignation from the legislature, allowing Tory to run in the resulting by-election in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes — Brock.

* April 27, 2012-Progressive Conservative MPP Elizabeth Witmer ( Kitchener — Waterloo ) resigns her seat upon accepting a government appointment as chair of the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board.

Martel stood down as a Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in 1987, and was succeeded in Sudbury East by his daughter Shelley Martel after a bitter battle for the riding's NDP nomination between her and Rev.

While she was a past supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party and worked for the 1995 campaign of rival Tory MPP Brenda Elliott, Sandals defeated her in the Ontario provincial election of 2003 by 2, 872 votes in the riding of Guelph — Wellington.

Boyer planned to serve two terms as an Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) before retiring, but her plans were derailed by legal difficulties shortly after her election.

In August 1999, her husband accidentally backed their family van into Denis Grandmaitre, the son of former area MPP Bernard Grandmaître.

In December 2008, media pundits speculated that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would appoint Progressive Conservative MPP Bob Runciman to the Senate to create a vacancy for Tory, but Harper did not do so.

In May 2004, at the conclusion of MPP ’ s intensive, three-year lobbying campaign, Vermont became the ninth state to enact a medical marijuana law — and only the second state ( after Hawaii ) to do so through its legislature, rather than through a ballot initiative.

The growth in popularity continued so that in 2004 the MPP got six seats in the Senate, and contributed to the victory of presidential candidate Tabaré Vázquez who then became the first left-wing president of the country.

Mujica quit the MPP after the primary elections so that he would not be tied to any particular group within the Broad Front.

Baxter township named for the Honourable Jacob Baxter, MPP for Haldimand County, Ontario from 1887 to 1898 and was Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1887 to 1891.

He was reappointed Speaker following the 1945 election until he suddenly resigned in March 1947 to become a backbench Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ).

Following the election, Flynn unsuccessfully ran to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, losing to fellow Liberal Dave Levac, MPP for Brant.

" Mike " Brown, MPP ( born April 18, 1950 in Sarnia, Ontario ) is a politician in Ontario, Canada and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from October 2005 until October 2007.

Stokes was the NDP MPP for Lake Nipigon, and was named Speaker by Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis.

Davis was elected to lead a minority government and having an opposition MPP as Speaker was a means of denying the opposition one vote ( as the Speaker only votes in the occasion of a tie and then must vote by precedent ).

Edighoffer, a Liberal MPP, remained Speaker for the duration of the Peterson government.

John Stevenson ( August 12, 1812 – April 1, 1884 ) was the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1871 and served as Conservative MPP for Lennox.

Young would go on to continue his work in Ontario and eventually sit as an MPP in the Ontario legislature, however, his early work laid the groundwork for any future advancements the party would make during this period.

Every year, the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education would set meetings and arrange programmes with all MPP.

In the 2007 campaign, he wrote a blog post suggesting that Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod would rather bake cookies than be seen on a stage with farm activist Randy Hillier, who later ran successfully for the Conservatives.

Sorbara chaired the party's successful 2007 election campaign but announced on October 26, 2007 that he was leaving the cabinet to spend more time with his family but would continue as a backbench MPP.

The amalgamation was bitterly and unsuccessfully protested by some Flamborough residents and those of adjacent communities, particularly since the incumbent Progressive Conservative MPP, Toni Skarica's government had promised in the previous election that the amalgamation would not occur.

On January 8, 2009, it was announced that Scott would resign as MPP to allow PC leader John Tory to seek a seat in the legislature.

Some of MPP ’ s key federal goals include: building support for legislation that would treat marijuana like alcohol under federal law, persuading members of Congress to introduce and support legislation designed to protect medical marijuana patients and providers, monitoring the Department of Justice to ensure that the department honors its pledge to not prosecute individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws, generating media coverage to pressure the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) to provide marijuana for an FDA-approved study related to PTSD, and lobbying for passage of an amendment to a congressional appropriations bill that would eliminate all funding for the drug czar ’ s office, among others.

This amendment would cut $ 23 million in duplicative and wasteful discretionary government spending by zero-funding the Office of National Drug Control Policy ( ONDCP ), commonly known as the “ Drug Czar ’ s Office .” MPP has been actively engaged in efforts to defund the ONDCP for nearly 10 years.

As one of the largest and politically sensitive Ministries of the Ontario government, this would be considered a fairly senior appointment for a newly elected MPP.

Citing the 2010 gas-fired power-plant explosion plant in Middletown, Connecticut, U. S., and the 2008 Toronto propane explosion, Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn introduced a private member's bill that would require a 1500-meter buffer zone for such a plant, a proposal intended to effectively prevent the construction of this project ..

PARAM 9900 / SS was designed to be a MPP system.

Smitherman was the first Liberal in the history of Toronto's NOW magazine to be voted best MPP.

The inflection point A defines the point beyond which there are diminishing marginal returns, as can be seen from the declining MPP curve beyond point X.

* Cam Jackson, a Tory MPP since 1985 from Burlington, Ontario and variously Minister of Tourism, Citizenship and Seniors in the Harris and Eves governments, was rumoured to be considering a run, but decided to endorse John Tory.

It has been postulated that Parkinson's disease may be caused by minute amounts of MPP +- like compounds from ingestion or exogenously through repeated exposure and that these substances are too minute to be detected significantly by epidemiological studies.

Throughout 2008, Tory's leadership of the party was perceived to be tenuous, as he faced widespread criticism for his seeming failure to convince a sitting MPP to resign in order to open a seat for him.

North was re-elected in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Williams by nearly 2, 000 votes, becoming the first MPP in the province to be elected as an independent candidate since 1934.

On February 22, Henry John Boulton, MPP for Norfolk, introduced an amendment that all persons having pled guilty or having been found to be guilty of high treason should not receive compensation from the government.

Also, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Dominic Agostino proposed in 1996 that the Legislative Assembly of Ontario follow that of Quebec and add another requisite oath of allegiance to Canada, to be taken by MPPs following the oath to the sovereign.

McMeekin's plans to jump from municipal to provincial politics had been rumoured for years, and it came as no surprise when he won the Liberal nomination for a by-election to be held in ADFA on September 7, 2000 ( called following the resignation of Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Toni Skarica, another vocal opponent of the amalgamation scheme ).

MPP advocates taxing and regulating the possession and sale of marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol, envisions a nation where marijuana education is honest and realistic, and believes treatment for problem marijuana users should be non-coercive and geared toward reducing harm.

Instead, Charlton was the only incumbent New Democratic MPP to be left out of Rae's first cabinet.