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Encyclopedia > Chris Charlton

Chris Charlton is a Canadian politician. She represents the electoral district of Hamilton Mountain, in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party. An electoral district is a geographically-based constituency upon which Canadas representative democracy is based. ... Hamilton Mountain refers to either the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, or the federal and provincial electoral district located on it. ... The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ... This page is about the Canadian political party. ...


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  • NDP page
Preceded by:
Beth Phinney, Liberal		 Member of Parliament For Hamilton Mountain
2006-present		 Succeeded by:
incumbent

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Chris Charlton at AllExperts (220 words)
Chris Charlton, MA, (born 1963 in Dortmund, Germany) is a Canadian politician.
Chris Charlton is married to Brian Charlton, a former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) who represented Hamilton Mountain in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1995.
Chris Charlton previously ran for the NDP in Hamilton Mountain in the 1997 and 2004 federal elections, but was defeated both times by now-retired Liberal Party MP Beth Phinney.
Brian Charlton: Information from Answers.com (724 words)
Charlton was belatedly appointed to cabinet on March 18, 1991, as Minister of Financial Institutions.
As Chair of the Management Board, Charlton acknowledged in 1993 that the Rae government's employment equity policies could have the effect of barring white male applicants from some civil service jobs for a number of years (some sources claim he said "fifteen years", though this figure was actually used as a high-end extreme).
Charlton is currently a member of Green Venture, and has chaired employment adjustment committees for the Hamilton Steelworkers Area Council and the Canadian Auto Workers.
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