|
The Ontario Liberal Party ran a full slate of 103 candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and elected 35 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to form the official opposition in the provincial legislature. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. ==Albert Koehl (Trinity—Spadina)== Koehl was a lawyer for the provincial Environment Ministry during the early 1990s (''Globe and Mail'', 4 June 1992), and later worked as a war crimes investigator for the United Nations. In 1998, he contributed to a UN report on past human rights abuses in Guatemala. He has also worked with aboriginal groups in Guatemala, and with Guatemalan refugees in Mexico. In 2003, he wrote against General Efraín Ríos Montt's bid to return as President of Guatemala (''Toronto Star'', 9 November 2003). He received 9,817 votes (27.48%), finishing second against New Democratic Party incumbent Rosario Marchese. He was 39 years old (''Toronto Star'', 17 May 1999). Koehl later became a founding member of the Education Rights Task Force, and has written about the difficulties faced by the children of illegal immigrants in attaining education in Canada (''Toronto Star'', 10 May 2002). In 2005, he supported the provincial government of Dalton McGuinty's decision to remove an attendance fee for the children of some recent immigrants (''Canada NewsWire'', 19 May 2005). He is also a lawyer with the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, and has written in support of the Kyoto Accord (''Globe and Mail'', 28 August 2002). In 2003, he spoke out against plans for a logging road network near Pukaskwa National Park in Northern Ontario (''Broadcast News'', 12 August 2003). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ontario Liberal Party candidates, 1999 Ontario provincial election」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|