George Raymond McCague was a Canadian politician in Ontario.
22 Facts About George McCague
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George McCague was a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.
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George McCague was son of JJ E McCague, who owned Glenafton Farms which was one of the best known dairy farms of its time.
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George McCague was educated at Burns Public School, Alliston High School and the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario.
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George McCague worked as a sod and potato farmer and executive and owned a real estate company in Alliston.
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George McCague was a councillor in Alliston from 1960 to 1961, deputy reeve from 1962 to 1964, reeve from 1965 to 1966, a public school board member from 1967 to 1968 and Mayor from 1969 to 1973.
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George McCague was chair of the Board of Governors for Georgian College from 1967 to 1974 and Simcoe County warden in 1966.
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George McCague served as chair of the Niagara Escarpment Commission in the early 1970s.
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George McCague was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, after defeating long serving Dufferin Simcoe MP Wally Downer for the Progressive Conservative nomination.
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George McCague was elected by greater margins in the elections of 1977,1981, and 1985.
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George McCague served as parliamentary assistant to the Treasurer just before the 1977 election, and was brought into Bill Davis's cabinet on September 21,1977, as Minister of Government Services.
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George McCague was named Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet on August 18,1978.
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George McCague retained this position until Davis resigned as Premier in 1985.
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George McCague tried to convince Davis to remain in office for another election, but afterwards endorsed Frank Miller to succeed him as party leader.
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George McCague was retained in his portfolio after the election, but did little of significance before the government was defeated in the house.
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George McCague sat in opposition for the remainder of his time in the legislature.
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George McCague was narrowly re-elected in the 1987 election, defeating Liberal candidate Gary Johnson by only 306 votes in the redistributed constituency of Simcoe West.
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George McCague returned to municipal politics, and served as mayor of Tecumseth from 1992 to 1994.
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George McCague is considered a mentor to his successor in the legislature, former cabinet minister Jim Wilson.
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George McCague continued to support the federal Progressive Conservative Party over the Reform Party in the 1990s.
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Shortly after Mike Harris returned the Progressive Conservatives to government in 1995, George McCague was appointed as a government negotiator in talks with the Ontario Medical Association.
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George McCague was a founding member, and first chair, of the Board Governors of Georgian College, in Barrie.