Shelley Wark-Martyn was born on January 11,1963 and is a former politician from Ontario, Canada.
13 Facts About Shelley Wark-Martyn
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Shelley Wark-Martyn was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn received a small disability pension from the Worker's Compensation Board.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn is married to Kelly with whom she has two children, Kurtis and Erika.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating incumbent Liberal Taras Kozyra by 1,034 votes in the Northern Ontario riding of Port Arthur.
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The NDP won a majority government and Shelley Wark-Martyn was appointed as Rae's first Minister of Revenue on October 1,1990.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn studied a possible harmonization of the GST with provincial sales tax.
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The Revenue Minister position was abolished and Shelley Wark-Martyn was transferred to Minister without portfolio responsible for Education and Training, assisting Education Minister Dave Cooke.
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In early 1995, Shelley Wark-Martyn announced that Lakehead University and Confederation College would be receiving almost one million dollars in grants to develop programs and services to aboriginal people.
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The NDP were defeated in the provincial election of 1995, and Shelley Wark-Martyn lost her seat to Liberal Michael Gravelle by almost 7,000 votes.
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In 2004, Shelley Wark-Martyn began working in Calgary, Alberta for Bayshore Home Health, a home-delivery health-care service.
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Shelley Wark-Martyn became involved in the Alberta Liberal Party, eventually running for the presidency of the party and winning that position in May 2014.