Mike Harris
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Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 14, 2002.
He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to education and social services.
Later life
In late May 2010, Nipissing University confirmed that Harris would receive an honorary doctorate. In response, the Ontario Teachers' Federation threatened to discourage, or even prevent, their members from acting as associate teachers for students in Nipissing University's Bachelor of Education program, which requires students to complete 12 weeks of practice teaching in a classroom. Nipissing University's $25 million Harris Learning Library, which opened in 2011, is named after the former premier.
In 2012, Harris started a local Nurse Next Door Home Care franchise in Toronto with wife Laura.
In May 2014, Harris co-led an independent Canadian mission to observe the Ukrainian presidential election.
In 2018 Ontario general election, his son Mike Harris Jr. was elected as MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga, also a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Today, Harris serves as the Chair of the Board for Chartwell Retirement Residences. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Chartwell and other for-profit facilities had "far worse COVID-19 outcomes than public facilities" after paying hundreds of millions to shareholders over the last decade. Since joining the board, Mike Harris has been compensated roughly $3.5-million for his services.
After the federal Conservatives' loss in the 2021 Canadian federal election, Harris urged the party to "unite behind" the leader, Erin O'Toole, through a column of his in the newspaper, Toronto Sun.
Early political career
In 1974, Harris was elected as a public servant as a trustee of the school board. He entered provincial politics in 1981 and defeated Mike Bolan, the incumbent Liberal MPP in Nipissing. Harris later said that he was compelled to enter politics as a result of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's policies.
Harris served as a backbencher in Bill Davis' PC ministry from 1981 to 1985. He backed Frank Miller's triumph over Davis as the party's leader in 1985 and assigned Dennis Timbrell to prepare Miller for the party's all-candidate debates. On February 8, 1985, Miller was elected premier of Ontario and named Harris as the minister of natural resources.
In the 1985 provincial election, the Conservatives were relegated to a minority government, but Harris was re-elected without hesitation. After the election, he maintained the natural resources portfolio, and was also named Minister of Energy on May 17, 1985. David Peterson's Liberals and Bob Rae's New Democratic Party (NDP) smuggled the Miller government shortly on a motion of no confidence.
In exchange for the implementation of certain NDP policies, a Liberal minority government was allowed to serve for two years under an agreement between the Liberals and the NDP. For the first time in 42 years, the Conservatives were sent to opposition. Miller resigned and was replaced by Larry Grossman, who led the party to a dismal appearance in the 1987 election and resigned immediately afterwards. Harris was re-elected in Nipissing with no difficulty.