- 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 inStoney Point, Ontario ) is a Canadian lawyer andpolitician . Comartin joined theNew 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 1999by-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 1990by-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 ofLondon, 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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LiberalShaughnessy Cohen
align="right"|16,496New Democratic Party Joe Comartin
align="right"|14,237
Reform
Harold Downs
align="right"|5,899
Progressive ConservativeBruck Easton
align="right"|4,253
Green
Timothy Dugdale
align="right"|357
Marxist-Leninist
Dale Woodyard
align="right"|115By-election: On Mrs. Cohen's death:
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LiberalRick Limoges
align="right"|13,891New Democratic Party Joe Comartin
align="right"|13,800
Progressive ConservativeBruck Easton
align="right"|2,074
Reform
Scott Cowan
align="right"|1,956
UnknownJohn Turmel
align="right"|106-
New Democratic Party Joe Comartin
align="right"|17,001
LiberalRick Limoges
align="right"|16,600Canadian Alliance
Phillip Pettinato
align="right"|5,639
Progressive ConservativeBruck Easton
align="right"|1,906
Green
Stephen Lockwood
align="right"|390
Marxist-Leninist
Dale Woodyard
align="right"|95-
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%-
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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