Rose-Marie Margaret Ur (born July 28, 1946 in Glencoe,

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) is a

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. She was a member of the

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from 1993 until 2005 and, in her final term in office, represented the riding of Middlesex—Kent—Lambton for the

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Biography

Ur was educated at the Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, receiving certification as a registered nurse assistant in 1964. She practised in this field from 1963 to 1966, then left to work as a farmer until 1990. She also worked as a constituency assistant to provincial Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Doug Reycraft from 1986 to 1988, and federal

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(MP) Ralph Ferguson from 1988 to 1993. Ur is a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. She was first elected to parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating her nearest opponent by almost 11,000 votes in the old riding of

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. She was re-elected by similarly large pluralities in

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in the elections of

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and

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. Ur faced a difficult re-election in the federal election of 2004, defeating Bev Shipley of the newly formed

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by only 164 votes. Shipley could have requested a recount, but declined. Ur was one of the most

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members of the Liberal caucus, strongly opposed to

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and

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. She was also an opponent of the federal gun registry, and sought to eliminate the program in late 2004. Ur was never appointed as a parliamentary secretary. In the spring of 2005, Rose-Marie announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2006 federal election.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ur, Rose-Marie 1946 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Liberal Party of Canada MPs Women members of the House of Commons of Canada Women in Ontario politics 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians