Newly elected Ontario Premier Michael Harris has sworn in his new cabinet, and, accordingly, the province’s mining industry has two Progressive Conservative ministers with whom to get acquainted.
Christoper Hodgson, member of provincial parliament (MPP) for Victoria-Haliburton, has been placed in charge of two ministries: Natural Resources, and Northern Development and Mines. He first came to office in a 1994 byelection, and then was re-elected last month.
Hodgson was the Tories’ critic for the Ministry of Natural Resources in the previous legislature, and was a member of the standing committee on regulations and private bills. He also played a significant role on his party’s Task Force on Rural Economic Development.
He entered politics as a reeve of Dysart Twp. and later became a warden of Haliburton Cty. Prior to that, he sold real estate and ran his own development business.
Born and raised in Haliburton, Hodgson graduated in political science at Trent University.
The new minister of Environment and Energy is Brenda Elliott, MPP for Guelph.
Elliott is the owner of the environment-related store For Earth’s Sake, and is a founding member of the Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, as well as the Speed River Land Trust. She is also director of the Guelph Downtown Board of Management.
In the past, Elliott was a public school teacher and librarian.
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