Norm Jamison
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Norm Jamison
| image =
| office = Ontario MPP
| term_start = 1990
| term_end = 1995
| predecessor = Gord Miller
| successor = Toby Barrett
| constituency = Norfolk
| party = New Democrat
| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|5|25}}
| birth_place = Ireland
| death_date={{death date and age|2017|10|3|1950|5|25}}
| death_place=Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada
| residence =
| occupation = Steelworker
}}
Norman Johnston Jamison (May 25, 1950 – October 3, 2017) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. He died on October 3, 2017, of liver cancer at the age of 67.{{Cite web|url=http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2017/10/04/norm-jamison-67-was-surprise-mpp-in-rae-government|title=Norm Jamison, 67, was surprise MPP in Rae government |first=Monte |last=Sonnenberg|website=Simcoe Reformer|accessdate=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712030105/http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2017/10/04/norm-jamison-67-was-surprise-mpp-in-rae-government|archivedate=July 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}
- [http://www.rhbandersonfuneralhomes.com/cms/obituaries/norman-jamison/ "Norman Jamison"], RHB Anderson Funeral Hones Ltd
Background
Jamison was president of his student council at Memorial Public School, but did not attend university. He was employed by Stelco for twenty years, and also worked as a representative of the United Way in Norfolk County, Ontario.{{cite news |title=Let's start the family feud largely rural race features clash of two popular local families |last=Nolan |first=Dan |newspaper=The Spectator |location=Hamilton, Ont |date=May 20, 1999 |page=C2}}
Politics
He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial election, but finished almost 9,000 votes behind the Liberal candidate, Gord Miller, in the southwestern Ontario riding of Norfolk.{{cite news |title=Results from individual ridings |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=September 11, 1987 |page=F2}}
The NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Jamison was elected over Miller by almost 4,000 votes in a rematch from 1987.{{cite news |title=Ontario election: Riding-by-riding voting results |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 7, 1990 |page=A12}} He was a parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology and the Minister of Economic Development and Trade over the next five years.{{cite news |title=Meeting seeks economic cure |last=Nolan |first=Dan |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator |date=March 4, 1993 |page=B4}}
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Jamison finished third against the Progressive Conservative Toby Barrett in his bid for re-election.{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215103637/https://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |accessdate=February 3, 2014 }}
Jamison left the NDP to join the Liberal Party before the 1999 provincial election, and endorsed the Liberal candidate in the redistributed riding of Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant.
He ran for municipal councillor in Haldimand County in 2000, but was defeated.{{cite news |title=Bergstrand survives strong challenge from Trainer |last=Diebel |first=Lise |newspaper=The Spectator|location=Hamilton, Ontario |date=November 14, 2000 |page=D08}}
References
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External links
- {{OntarioMPPbio|id=norman-jamison}}
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Category:Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario