Shelley Dawn Marie Martel was born on April 8,1963 and is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
26 Facts About Shelley Martel
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Shelley Martel was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 2007.
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Shelley Martel represented the ridings of Sudbury East and Nickel Belt.
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Shelley Martel was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
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Shelley Martel's father is Elie Martel, who was a long time NDP member of the Ontario legislature.
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Shelley Martel's mother is the daughter of another area politician, Norman Fawcett, who served as mayor of Capreol, and as Nickel Belt's federal MP from 1965 to 1968.
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Shelley Martel studied International Politics at the University of Toronto and French at the Sorbonne.
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Shelley Martel then worked as a claims adjudicator with the Ontario Workers' Compensation Board.
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Shelley Martel herself was a page when her father was serving in the Legislature.
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In 1987 at age 24, Shelley Martel was elected as the New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Sudbury East defeating Liberal opponent Claude Mayer by 6,005 votes.
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Shelley Martel was named as the party's critic for culture and francophone affairs.
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Shelley Martel was re-elected in the 1990 provincial election, in which the NDP won a majority government.
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On October 1,1990, Shelley Martel was named Minister of Northern Development and Government House Leader in the cabinet of Bob Rae.
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Shelley Martel's portfolio was enhanced when she took over Mines from Gilles Pouliot to become the Minister of Northern Development and Mines but she lost her position as Government House Leader to Dave Cooke.
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In July 1991, Shelley Martel led an effort to save a paper mill in Kapuskasing from closure.
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Shelley Martel said of the incident, "I made some remarks which were completely unfounded and which are without basis", and that they were made during a "heated private conversation".
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Shelley Martel took the unusual step of taking a lie detector test to show that she was telling the truth about making up a story about seeing confidential files on the doctor.
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The committee concluded that Shelley Martel did not need to resign.
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Shelley Martel finally resigned from her portfolio on October 7,1994.
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Shelley Martel's resignation occurred after the Ontario Privacy Commissioner found that she had passed on personal financial information about an Ottawa man who owned land for the purposes of mining speculation.
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Shelley Martel was one of only seventeen NDP MPPs to be re-elected in this campaign.
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Shelley Martel was named as the party's critic for natural resources.
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In 2000, Shelley Martel co-sponsored a private member's bill with fellow NDP member Marilyn Churley that called for a ban on development on the environmentally sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine.
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In 2002, Shelley Martel sponsored another private member's bill on the rights of medical patients.
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On May 18,2007, Shelley Martel announced that she would not seek re-election and would quit politics after the 2007 election, to spend more time with her family and pursue other career opportunities.
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Shelley Martel committed to campaign on behalf of France Gelinas, her successor as the New Democratic Party candidate in Nickel Belt.