Frank Klees
Frank Klees | |
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Ontario MPP | |
In office 1995–2014 | |
Preceded by | Charles Beer |
Succeeded by | Chris Ballard |
Constituency | Newmarket—Aurora Oak Ridges (1999-2007) York—Mackenzie (1995-1999) |
Personal details | |
Born | Progressive Conservative | March 6, 1951
Residence | Aurora, Ontario |
Occupation | Businessman |
Frank Klees (born March 6, 1951) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
Background
Klees was born in
Klees sat on the board of the controversial Universal Energy Corporation, a natural gas and electricity retailer which has been fined by the Ontario Energy Board on several occasions and frequently criticised by its own customers as being a scam.[1] When Universal was bought out by Just Energy he was presented a seat on the board of their Exchange corporation.[2]
From 1992 to 1994, he was third vice-president and policy chair of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Klees lives in Aurora, Ontario.
Klees is currently a registered lobbyist working on behalf of the development industry.[3]
Politics
Klees ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, losing to Liberal Remo Mancini in the southwestern riding of Essex South.[4] He lost to Mancini a second time in the 1977 election.[5]
Klees was elected to the
In 2000, Klees was preparing to run as a candidate for the leadership of the new Canadian Alliance, but withdrew because one of his key financial backers insisted on a last-minute deal to make a significant funding commitment conditional on Klees throwing his support to one of the other candidates on the second ballot.
Klees stepped down from his ministerial position on July 30, 2001 for what he described as personal reasons. After returning to the
Klees was re-elected in 2003,
Klees was elected in the newly created provincial riding of Newmarket-Aurora in the 2007 Ontario general election.[11] He was re-elected in the 2011 Ontario election.[12]
Klees contested the
After the 2011 general election Klees requested the post of deputy party leader, presently held by Whitby-Oshawa MPP Christine Elliott, but Tim Hudak instead offered the shadow cabinet role of transportation critic along with ethnic outreach in the PC party's
He did not run in the 2014 election.[16]
Cabinet positions
References
- ^ Steele, Andrew (1 June 2009). "Watching the detectives". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Stocks". Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
- ^ Gray, Jeff (26 May 2020). "Ontario issues special orders to approve developers' plans and quash opposition". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings". The Globe and Mail. 19 September 1975. p. C12.
- ^ "Ontario provincial election results riding by riding". The Globe and Mail. 10 June 1977. p. D9.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 8 June 1995. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 3 June 1999. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Ontario Cabinet". The Spectator. Hamilton, Ont. 18 June 1999. p. C8.
- ^ "Ont-Cabinet". Toronto, Ont: Canadian Press NewsWire. 15 April 2002.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 2 October 2003. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 10 October 2007. p. 9 (xviii). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 6 October 2011. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ a b c Ferguson, Rob; Benzie, Robert (25 October 2011). "Klees to run for speaker, throws Tories into disarray". Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Kelly McParland: Tim Hudak's chickens come home to roost".
- ^ Benzie, Robert (29 October 2011). "Klees aborts controversial run for speaker". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ Benzie, Robert (21 January 2014). "MPP Frank Klees won't seek re-election". Toronto Star.