1. David Joseph Levac was born on April 6,1954 and is a retired Canadian politician who was the 41st speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2011 to 2018.
15 Facts About Dave Levac
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Dave Levac was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1999 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.
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Dave Levac served as the member of Provincial Parliament for Brant until 2018 and is the Ontario legislature's longest serving speaker.
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Dave Levac completed teacher's college at Queen's University in 1977, beginning to work a teacher in the early 1980s, and became a principal in Brantford in 1989.
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Dave Levac received the Canada 125 Medal in 1993, was named OECTA Distinguished Teacher in 1994 for his work in conflict resolution programs, and was named Brantford's Citizen of the Year in 1997 by readers of the Brantford Expositor.
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Dave Levac served as co-ordinator of Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Visit to Brantford in 1997.
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Dave Levac was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.
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Dave Levac was elected in the 1999 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Alayne Sokoloski by 956 votes in the riding of Brant.
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The PCs won a majority government in this election, and Dave Levac sat as an opposition member for the next four years.
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The Liberals won a majority government in the 2003 provincial election and Dave Levac again defeated Sokoloski, this time by over 10,000 votes.
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On January 25,2010, Dave Levac was named parliamentary assistant to the minister of energy and infrastructure.
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Dave Levac beat three other Liberal members, David Zimmer, Kevin Flynn, and Donna Cansfield.
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Dave Levac was re-elected as speaker after the 2014 election defeating four other contenders.
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On May 5,2017, Dave Levac announced he would not run for his seat again in the 2018 Ontario general election after 19 years in the legislature and seven of those years as speaker.
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In 2022, Dave Levac was appointed to the Order of Ontario.