Harry Brightwell

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name = Harry Brightwell

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| parliament = Canadian

| riding = Perth—Wellington—Waterloo
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| term_start = September 4, 1984

| term_end = October 25, 1993

| predecessor = William H. Jarvis

| successor = John Richardson

| birthname = Arthur Harry Brightwell

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1932|08|04}}

| birth_place = Matheson, Ontario, Canada

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| party = Progressive Conservative

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| committees = Chairman, Standing Committee on Agriculture
Chairman, Subcommittee on the Tobacco-Growing Industry of the Standing Committee on Agriculture

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Arthur Harry Brightwell (born 4 August 1932) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He was a veterinarian by career.{{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide | year=1985 | first=Pierre G. | last=Normandin }}

Born in Matheson, Ontario, he attended the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario where he graduated in 1956.{{cite web | url=http://www.ovma.org/pdf/awards_announce07.pdf | title=Former MP, Dundas Mentor Receive Distinguished Veterinary Awards | publisher=Ontario Veterinary Medicine Association | date=25 January 2007 | accessdate=2010-03-07 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062844/http://www.ovma.org/pdf/awards_announce07.pdf | archivedate=20 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}

He campaigned in the 1984 federal election where he won the Perth electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served there for the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

When riding boundaries were altered in 1987, Brightwell campaigned in the Perth—Wellington—Waterloo electoral district in the following 1988 federal election. He was re-elected, but by a slim two percent margin over Liberal candidate Mike Stinson.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=opvmE2AExc8C&pg=PA293 | title=Canadian politics, riding by riding: an in-depth analysis of Canada's 301 federal electoral districts | first=Tony L. | last=Hill | publisher=Prospect Park Press | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-9723436-0-2 | accessdate=2010-03-07 }} After serving in the 34th Canadian Parliament he lost the riding to John Richardson of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election.