Vic Dhillon
Vic Dhillon (born
1969) is a
politician in
Ontario,
Canada. He is a current member of the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the
constituency of
Brampton Westâ€"Mississauga for the
Ontario Liberal Party. Dhillon is one of the three
Sikh Members of the Legislature, all of whom are members of the Liberal Party.
Dhillon has lived in
Brampton, Ontario for most of his life. He has a degree in
Business Administration from
Lakehead University, and helped found a family-owned business in
Mississauga after his graduation. He has also done fundraising work for the Brampton Food Bank, and led a local initiative to send supplies to eastern Ontario during the
ice storm of
1998. Dhillon worked as a constituency assistant to federal
Liberal Member of Parliament (MP)
Gurbax Singh Malhi for five months after the
1993 federal election, and then worked as an as executive assistant to Liberal MP
Colleen Beaumier for just over nine years.
Dhillon first ran for the Ontario legislature in the
1999 provincial election, and lost to high-profile
Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement by 8,310 votes in the newly-created provincial constituency of Brampton Westâ€"Mississauga. He ran again in the
2003 election, and this time defeated Clement by 2,512 votes. Most political observers considered his victory to be a significant upset. Strong support from the constituency's
Indo-Canadian community was a factor, as was a provincial swing to the Liberals.
Dhillon was 34 years old at the time of his election, and his second child was born during the campaign. He is now a
backbench supporter of
Dalton McGuinty's government, and is vice-chair of the standing committee on General Government.
In
2004, Dhillon was credited by many local residents with saving Knights Table, a non-profit diner that provides meals for Brampton's poor and homeless. Dhillon, according to a
Toronto Star report, introduced the diner's management to Jaswant Singh Birk, who in turn provided the establishment with a generous lease after its previous contract expired.
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Vic Dhillon, official site
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Party Website*
Official Legislative RecordInformation from these pages has been integrated into this article.
| 2003 provincial election, Brampton Westâ€"Mississauga |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
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| Liberal | Vic Dhillon | 28,926 | 46.18 | +8.95 | $84,782.33 | Progressive Conservative | (x)Tony Clement | 26,414 | 42.17 | -13.70 | $108,691.97
| New Democratic Party | Chris Moise | 5,103 | 8.15 | +1.82 | $7,336.30 | Family Coalition Party | Paul Micelli | 1,122 | 1.79 | +1.79 | no report filed | Green | Paul Simas | 811 | 1.29 | +1.29 | $1,000.06 | Freedom | John G. Purdy | 266 | 0.42 | +0.42 | $0.00 |
| Total valid votes | 62,642 | 100.00 | | - bgcolor="white" | Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 555 | | | - bgcolor="white" | Turnout | 63,197 | 50.84 | | }| 1999 provincial election, Brampton Westâ€"Mississauga |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
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| Progressive Conservative | (x)Tony Clement | 24,909 | 55.87 | align="right"|$71,283.13 | Liberal | Vic Dhillon | 16,599 | 37.23 | align="right"|$70,662.58
| New Democratic Party | John Devries | 2,824 | 6.33 | align="right"|$7,000.00 | Natural Law Party | Mei Sze Viau | 252 | 0.57 | align="right"|$0.00 | | Total valid votes | 44,584 | 100.00 | | - bgcolor="white" | Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 501 | | | - bgcolor="white" | Turnout | 45,085 | 51.23 | | }# Natalia Williams, "Bill Davis country hit by aggressive campaigning", Toronto Star, 26 May 1999, p. 1.# Bob Mitchell, "Rookie MPP is ready to work 24/7", Toronto Star, 23 December 2003, p. B03.# Dino Sossi, "Too many cooks save the broth", Toronto Star, 29 December 2004, p. B02.
All election information is taken from Elections Ontario.
Expenditure entries are taken from official candidate reports as listed by Elections Ontario. The figures cited are the Total Candidate's Campaign Expenses Subject to Limitation, and include transfers from constituency associations.
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