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ran a full slate of candidates in the 1987 provincial election, and won 19 out of 130 seats to become the second-largest party in the Ontario legislature. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Candidates

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: Jack Tubman

Jack Tubman (died November 10, 2005) was a labour activist in

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. Born and raised in the city, he was educated at

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and at the Labour College of Canada in

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. Tubman served as president of the

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Local 397 in the 1980s and was a national staff representative in the union from 1987 until his death. He was also active with the

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, which recognized him as Labour Citizen of the Year in 1981. Active in the Brant

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, he was also a member of the

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east steering committee. He joined the New Democratic Party in 1970. He was campaign manager for

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and worked on campaigns in

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and

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. In

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, he ran for a seat on the

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. Tubman was an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate in

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and 1987, finishing second on both occasions. In 1991, he served on a provincial committee that proposed comprehensive reforms to Ontario's labour laws. The changes would have prohibited companies from hiring any person to do the work of a striking employee and made it easier for unions to organize. In the buildup to the 1999 provincial election, Tubman recommended a

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strategy to defeat

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's Progressive Conservative government. In 2002, he co-authored an article with Peter Leibovitch on revitalizing the federal

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. The article called for an end to

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influence in Canada's domestic affairs and for an endorsement of the right to

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of Quebec and indigenous groups (although it did not endorse

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). Tubman supported

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in the

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St. Catharines: Rob West

West was president of the St. Catharines and District Labour Council in the 1980s, and spoke before a legislative committee in this capacity to oppose "no-fault" automobile insurance. He has also described himself as an owner-coordinato

He received 5,566 votes (20.04%) in the 1987 election, finishing second against

incumbent Jim Bradley (politician), Jim Bradley. West later ran for the federal

in the

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, and finished third in the federal St. Catharines riding with 12,260 votes (25.45%). The winner was

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of the Progressive Conservative Party. As of 2005, West is a representative of the

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, Local 1.ON. He has spoken out against health-care cuts in the St. Catharines are

References

Ontario New Democratic Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections, 1987

Candidates

Brantford Brantford (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River (Ontario), Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by County of Brant, Brant County, but is politically separate with ...: Jack Tubman

St. Catharines: Rob West

References

Brantford Brantford (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River (Ontario), Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by County of Brant, Brant County, but is politically separate with ...
: Jack Tubman