Bob Delaney MPP |
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Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Mississauga—Streetsville Mississauga West (2003-2007) |
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Assumed office October 2, 2003 |
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Preceded by | John Snobelen |
Ontario Chief Government Whip | |
In office March 25, 2014 – September 2, 2015 |
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Premier | Kathleen Wynne |
Preceded by | Kevin Flynn |
Succeeded by | Marie-France Lalonde |
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Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Montreal, Quebec |
Political party | Liberal |
Residence | Mississauga, Ontario |
Occupation | IT consultant |
Bob Delaney (born c. 1953) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Mississauga—Streetsville for the Ontario Liberal Party. He has been an MPP since 2003.
Delaney was born in Montreal, Quebec, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Concordia University in that city. He received a Master of Arts degree in business administration from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in 1988, and has received accreditation from the Canadian Public Relations Society. He has lived primarily in Mississauga since 1983.
Delaney ran for the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1999 losing to Progressive Conservative cabinet minister John Snobelen by about 9,000 votes in the riding of Mississauga West. After Snobelen resigned from the legislature in early 2003 Delaney ran for the Liberals again in the provincial election of 2003, this time defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Nina Tangri by over 7,000 votes. He was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2014.