1995 Ontario general election
The 1995 Ontario general election was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada. The writs for the election were dropped on April 28, 1995.
Image: Premier Mike Harris 1996 (cropped)
Image: Bob Rae, Toronto City Summit Alliance (cropped)
Robert Keith Rae is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal and provincial parliaments.
Rae in 2019
The Ontario Legislative Building, from which Rae governed Ontario as the first NDP premier of the province
Retail stores along Yonge Street in Toronto, circa 1990, at a time when the issue of Sunday shopping was being debated in Ontario
Rae attending a protest in Toronto Centre