18 Facts About Doug Martindale

Doug Martindale was born on May 25,1947 and is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Doug Martindale was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1990 to 2011, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party.

Doug Martindale holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brock University and a Master of Divinity degree from Victoria University.

Doug Martindale is an ordained United Church minister, and has practiced in Saskatchewan and at a mission in north-end Winnipeg.

Doug Martindale has been involved in several outreach programs among Winnipeg's poor and aboriginal communities, and remains active in efforts to combat homelessness.

Doug Martindale helped to convert St John's United Church into a co-op apartment complex, and was a founding member of Inner City Voice newspaper.

Doug Martindale was defeated in the general election by Liberal candidate William Chornopyski.

NDP support had recovered somewhat by the 1990 election, and Doug Martindale was able to defeat Chornopyski in a rematch.

The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under Gary Filmon, and Doug Martindale served in the official opposition as his party's critic for family services and housing.

Doug Martindale criticized the government's introduction of a "welfare fraud hotline", describing it as "punitive and unnecessary" and noting that Manitoba lost far more money each year to income tax fraud.

Nonetheless, Doug Martindale supported the government's early intervention policy as a means of keeping more children with their families and out of the supervision of Child and Family Services.

Doug Martindale was re-elected in the 1995 general election, as the Progressive Conservatives won a second majority government across the province.

Doug Martindale continued to serve as family services critic, and opposed another round of child welfare cuts introduced by the Filmon government later in the year.

Doug Martindale was easily re-elected in Burrows, defeating controversial school trustee Mike Babinsky of the Liberal Party.

Doug Martindale served as a backbench supporter of the Doer government.

Doug Martindale was an international observer to the Ukrainian presidential election in December 2004.

Doug Martindale said that he would be teaching at Booth University College and Providence University College, and would return to preaching as a United Church minister.

Doug Martindale supported Lorne Nystrom's bid to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 1995, and endorsed Bill Blaikie in 2003.