Canadian politician
Nicholas George Leluk (February 23, 1935 – February 9, 1998) was a politician in Ontario , Canada . He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller .
Background
Leluk was born in Hillcrest , Alberta , and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin–Madison . He worked as a pharmacist, and was executive assistant to the registrar of the Ontario College of Pharmacists from 1961 to 1969. Leluk was both a freemason and a Knight of Malta . He also served as President of the Ontario Tae Kwon-Do Association from 1974 to 1983, and was a founding executive director of the Council on Drug Abuse.
Politics
Leluk was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election , in the Etobicoke constituency of Humber .[ 1] He was re-elected for York West in the elections of 1975 ,[ 2] 1977 ,[ 3] and 1981 .[ 4] He was named Minister of Correctional Services in Bill Davis's government on April 10, 1981.[ 5] Leluk supported Frank Miller to succeed Davis in January 1985,[ 6] and was retained in his portfolio when Miller became Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985.[ 7]
He was narrowly re-elected in the 1985 provincial election , defeating Liberal candidate Leonard Braithwaite by 715 votes.[ 8] The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a tenuous minority government in this election. Leluk was named Minister of Citizenship and Culture on May 17, 1985,[ 9] but accomplished little in this position before the Miller government was defeated by a motion of non-confidence in June 1985.
Leluk served as an opposition member for two years, and did not run for re-election in 1987. He died in 1998.
Cabinet positions
References
^ "Riding-by-riding returns in provincial election". The Globe and Mail . October 23, 1971. p. 10.
^ "Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings". The Globe and Mail . September 19, 1975. p. C12.
^ "Ontario provincial election results riding by riding". The Globe and Mail . June 10, 1977. p. D9.
^ Canadian Press (1981-03-20). "Election results for Metro Toronto" . The Windsor Star . Windsor, Ontario. p. 22. Retrieved 2014-04-01 .
^ Speirs, Rosemary (April 10, 1981). "Norton gets Environment as Davis shuffles Cabinet". The Globe and Mail . p. 1.
^ French, Orland (October 24, 1984). "Take a look at the team". The Globe and Mail . p. 7.
^ "The Ontario Cabinet". The Globe and Mail . February 9, 1985. p. 4.
^ "Results of vote in Ontario election". The Globe and Mail . May 3, 1985. p. 13.
^ "The new Cabinet". The Globe and Mail . May 18, 1985. p. 11.
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