Bud Wildman

Channel:

all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA

Subscribers:

1,980

Published on January 8, 2022 7:11:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imnCDxsUDcY

Duration: 4:22

6 views

0

Bud Wildman, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002752 / CC BY SA 3.0

#1946_births
#Living_people
#Ontario_New_Democratic_Party_MPPs
#Politicians_from_Ottawa
#Algoma_University_alumni
#People_from_Algoma_District
#Members_of_the_Executive_Council_of_Ontario
Charles Jackson "Bud" Wildman （born June 3, 1946） is a Canadian politician.
He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament （MPP） from 1975 to 1999, representing the riding of Algoma, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
He was educated at Carleton University, the McArthur College of Education at Queen's University, and Algoma University.
He lived in Echo Bay, Ontario after graduating, and worked as a high school history teacher.
He and his wife raised four children.
His son Jody Wildman is a municipal politician who, after first being elected as a councillor in 2000, has represented the Township of St.
Joseph as mayor since 2003.
Wildman was elected to the legislature in the provincial election of 1975, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Bernt Gilbertson by 398 votes.
Wildman's victory was regarded by many as an upset; he received support from NDP bastions such as Wawa, but also from more traditionally Conservative areas on the north shore of Lake Huron.
He was re-elected by an increased margin over PC candidate Dave Liddle in the 1977 election, and retained his seat by significant margins in the elections of 1981, 1985, 1987, 1990 and 1995.
Wildman supported Jim Foulds's bid to lead the provincial NDP in 1982.
The NDP won the 1990 provincial election, and Wildman was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Natural Resources and Minister responsible for Native Affairs on October 1, 1990.
He was promoted to Minister of the Environment and Energy on February 3, 1993.
As Natural Resources minister, Wildman initiated the first public audit of Ontario's forest resources and promoted an ecosystem management approach fo...