Joe Comartin

Joe Comartin

Infobox CanadianMP | name=Joseph J. Comartin


term_start=2000
term_end=
predecessor= Rick Limoges
birth_date= birth date and age |1947|12|26
birth_place= Stoney Point, Ontario
successor=
death_date=
death_place=
profession= lawyer, managing director
party=New Democratic Party
party colour=NDP
residence= Windsor
riding=Windsor—Tecumseh
footnotes=
term_start2=
term_end2=
predecessor2=
successor2=
spouse= Maureen Comartin
religion=|

Joseph J. "Joe" Comartin (born December 26, 1947 in Stoney Point, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. Comartin joined the New Democratic Party in 1969.

A civil litigation lawyer based in Windsor, Ontario, Comartin enjoyed strong support from local union members when he ran for a seat in the House of Commons, but narrowly lost in the 1997 general election and in a 1999 by-election.

He won the seat in the 2000 election, becoming the first federal NDP candidate to win a seat in Ontario in ten years (Mike Breaugh of Oshawa had been the last to win in a 1990 by-election ). He was re-elected in the 2004 election and the 2006 election.

Comartin stood as a candidate in the leadership of the NDP in 2003, and finished fourth.

He is currently the party's critic for Justice and Public Security. Comartin has been an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq.

Following his vote in favor of Same-sex marriage in Canada in June 2005, Comartin was disciplined by Ronald Fabbro, the Roman Catholic bishop of London, Ontario, barring him from acting as a Catholic marriage counsellor until he has a "change of mind" on the use of the word marriage to describe same-sex unions.

Electoral record

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Liberal
Shaughnessy Cohen
align="right"|16,496
New Democratic Party
Joe Comartin
align="right"|14,237
Reform
Harold Downs
align="right"|5,899
Progressive Conservative
Bruck Easton
align="right"|4,253
Green
Timothy Dugdale
align="right"|357
Marxist-Leninist
Dale Woodyard
align="right"|115

By-election: On Mrs. Cohen's death:

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Liberal
Rick Limoges
align="right"|13,891
New Democratic Party
Joe Comartin
align="right"|13,800
Progressive Conservative
Bruck Easton
align="right"|2,074
Reform
Scott Cowan
align="right"|1,956
Unknown
John Turmel
align="right"|106

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New Democratic Party
Joe Comartin
align="right"|17,001
Liberal
Rick Limoges
align="right"|16,600
Canadian Alliance
Phillip Pettinato
align="right"|5,639
Progressive Conservative
Bruck Easton
align="right"|1,906
Green
Stephen Lockwood
align="right"|390
Marxist-Leninist
Dale Woodyard
align="right"|95

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COMARTIN, Joe
align="right"| 20,037
align="right"| 41.85%
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LIMOGES, Rick
align="right"| 16,219
align="right"| 33.88%
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FUSCHI, Rick
align="right"| 9,827
align="right"| 20.53%
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POWLES, Elizabeth
align="right"| 1,613
align="right"| 3.37%
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CHESNIK, Laura
align="right"| 182
align="right"| 0.38%

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COMARTIN, Joe
align="right"| 22,646
align="right"| 44.6%
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EASTON, Bruck
align="right"| 13,412
align="right"| 26.4%
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FUSCHI, Rick
align="right"| 12,852
align="right"| 25.3%
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PLUARD, Catherine
align="right"| 1,644
align="right"| 3.2%
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CHESNIK, Laura
align="right"| 193
align="right"| 0.4%

External links

* [http://www.joecomartin.ca/ Official site]
* [http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/member.php?id=69 How'd They Vote?: Joe Comartin's voting history and quotes]
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=1b175d0f-9278-4e04-9fa8-0368e591c5a5&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]

Persondata
NAME=Comartin, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH=December 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH=Stoney Point, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH=living
PLACE OF DEATH=


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