Nick Leluk

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| office1 = Ontario MPP

| term_start1 = 1975

| term_end1 = 1987

| predecessor1 = John Palmer MacBeth

| successor1 = Riding abolished

| constituency1 = York West

| term_start2 = 1971

| term_end2 = 1975

| predecessor2 = George Ben

| successor2 = John Palmer MacBeth

| constituency2 = Humber

| party = Progressive Conservative

| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|02|23}}

| birth_place = Hillcrest, Alberta

| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|02|09|1935|02|23}}

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| occupation = Pharmacist

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Nicholas George Leluk (February 23, 1935 – February 9, 1998) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.

Background

Leluk was born in Hillcrest, Alberta, and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He worked as a pharmacist, and was executive assistant to the registrar of the Ontario College of Pharmacists from 1961 to 1969. Leluk was both a freemason and a Knight of Malta. He also served as President of the Ontario Tae Kwon-Do Association from 1974 to 1983, and was a founding executive director of the Council on Drug Abuse.

Politics

Leluk was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election, in the Etobicoke constituency of Humber.{{cite news |title=Riding-by-riding returns in provincial election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=October 23, 1971 |page=10}} He was re-elected for York West in the elections of 1975,{{cite news |title=Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 19, 1975 |page=C12}} 1977,{{cite news |title=Ontario provincial election results riding by riding |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=June 10, 1977 |page=D9}} and 1981.{{cite news|author=Canadian Press |title=Election results for Metro Toronto |newspaper=The Windsor Star |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NtYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QlIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6285%2C1391429 |date=1981-03-20 |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=22 |accessdate=2014-04-01}} He was named Minister of Correctional Services in Bill Davis's government on April 10, 1981.{{cite news |title=Norton gets Environment as Davis shuffles Cabinet |last=Speirs |first=Rosemary |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=April 10, 1981 |page=1}} Leluk supported Frank Miller to succeed Davis in January 1985,{{cite news |title=Take a look at the team |last=French |first=Orland |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=October 24, 1984 |page=7}} and was retained in his portfolio when Miller became Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985.{{cite news |title=The Ontario Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=February 9, 1985 |page=4}}

He was narrowly re-elected in the 1985 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Leonard Braithwaite by 715 votes.{{cite news |title=Results of vote in Ontario election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1985 |page=13}} The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a tenuous minority government in this election. Leluk was named Minister of Citizenship and Culture on May 17, 1985,{{cite news |title=The new Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 18, 1985 |page=11}} but accomplished little in this position before the Miller government was defeated by a motion of non-confidence in June 1985.

Leluk served as an opposition member for two years, and did not run for re-election in 1987. He died in 1998.