Martha Hall Findlay (born August 17, 1959) is a Canadian businesswoman, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician from Toronto, Ontario. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in the Toronto riding of Willowdale in a federal by-election held on March 17, 2008 to fill a vacancy created by former Liberal MP Jim Peterson's resignation. She was reelected in the 2008 general election but lost her seat in the 2011 election.
She had previously been the party's candidate for Newmarket—Aurora in the 2004 federal election, losing narrowly to Conservative candidate Belinda Stronach, and the first declared candidate for the Liberal Party leadership election to succeed Paul Martin in 2006. On November 14, 2012, she officially entered the 2013 leadership race.
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... Martha Hall Findlay, a Toronto lawyer, was the first candidate to officially declare she would run for the leadership when she did so on February 8, 2006 ... When Stronach crossed the floor in 2005, Hall Findlay ceded her Liberal nomination for the riding to Stronach ... Hall Findlay, 45, is fluently bilingual and has worked as the principal of her own management and legal consultancy organization, The General Counsel Group, which ...
... February 8, 2006 - ^ Martha Hall Findlay becomes first to declare candidacy for the leadership ... Clifford Blais, Stéphane Dion, John Godfrey, Martha Hall Findlay, Michael Ignatieff, and Gerard Kennedy, participate along with undeclared candidates Maurizio Bevilacqua, Carolyn ... December 2, 2006 Martha Hall Findlay arrives last on the 1st ballot, endorses Stéphane Dion ...
... Gus Hall (born Arvo Kustaa Halberg October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader and Chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its four-time U.S ... As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers ... During the Second Red Scare, Hall was indicted under the Smith Act and was sentenced to eight years in prison ...
... Conservative Chungsen Leung 22,206 41.7 +9.2 Liberal Martha Hall Findlay 21,245 39.9 -8.8 New Democratic Mehdi Mollahasani 9,780 18.4 +8.2 Total valid votes/Ex ...
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