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| | The Ontario PC Party - Our MPPs |
 | | Klees is the Opposition Education Critic and Critic for Citizenship and Immigration and serves as a member of the Standing Committee for Justice and Social Policy. | | | Frank served as the Minister of Tourism and Recreation in the Ernie Eves government from 2002-2003. | | | Frank is married to Jaine and has two adult children, Alissa and Robert. |
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http://www.ontariopc.com/qp_mpps.asp?ID=22
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| | Frank Klees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On February 25, 2003, he became Minister of Transportation, and served in that position until the defeat of the Eves government in the October 2003 election. | | | He was easily re-elected in the 1999 provincial election, and on June 17, 1999 joined the cabinet of Premier Mike Harris as chief party whip and Minister without Portfolio. | | | Frank Klees (born March 6, 1951 in Stuttgart, West Germany) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Klees
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| | The Ontario PC Party - News & Headlines |
| | Klees exercised his rights under the legislature's Rules of Order to demand a separate debate on this issue, claiming that he was not satisfied with the minister's response. | | | Klees will be posting the responses on his website at www.frank-klees.on.ca | | | Citing warnings of potential health risks to the 530 children and staff at the St. Monica Catholic Elementary School, Klees accused Education Minister Gerard Kennedy of abdicating his responsibility by ignoring appeals for help by concerned parents. |
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http://www.ontariopc.com/news.asp?ID=147
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| | Association of Regional Railways of Canada News Updates |
| | Klees is a member of the Cabinet Committee on Privatization and SuperBuild and the Cabinet Committee on Economic and Resource Policy. | | | Frank Klees is appointed to the Ministry of Transport, replacing Norm Sterling, who has been named Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Native Affairs. | | | Klees was appointed to Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio, with additional responsibilities as Chief Government Whip and Deputy House Leader. |
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http://www.arrc.ca/website/news.asp?nuid=72
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | Frank Monteleone, from Cassels Brock, is our legal counsel. | | | We will be voting on An Act respecting The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill, sponsored by MPP Klees. | | | Town of Richmond Hill Act, Bill Pr23, Mr Klees |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/committee_debates/36_parl/session2/regsbils/t006.htm
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| | Canada Family Action Coalition - CFAC |
| | Klees urged the party to return to the message it imparted "between 1995 and 1999," the era in which Mr. | | | John Tory, who lost a bid to become mayor of Toronto last year, seemed the odd man out, as former cabinet ministers Frank Klees and Jim Flaherty tried to paint him as a left-of-centre alternative. | | | Flaherty later denied that his attacks on Tory, a former candidate for the mayor of Toronto, were a sign that his leadership bid is slipping. |
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http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/politics-law/government/tories-praise-harris.htm
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| | CNEW Politics - Ontario Election Klees keeps his grip |
| | He said his spearheading of protection for the Oak Ridges Moraine was a politically risky move for a cabinet minister. | | | But his third term as MPP will be bittersweet after the Tories lost power, leaving him without his portfolio. | | | Tory Transportation Minister Frank Klees said his sound victory in York Region was a matter of record. |
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/Ontario/2003/10/03/216309.html
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| | MPP wants forced organ donations |
| | This is a personal or family decision and should not be legi... | | | New Democrat member Peter Kormos also introduced a private member's bill last week that would presume consent for organ donations, unless stated otherwise. | | | Conservative Frank Klees plans to introduce a private member's bill today to that effect. |
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http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=602a688a-a9a1-481d-95b7-5e9194c16aec&k=82038
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | Mr Klees: I'm honoured this morning to recommend to this committee Bill Pr4, which is an act that I believe is long overdue. | | | Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies Act, 1999, Bill Pr4, Mr Klees | | | Clerk of the Committee: Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Vice-Chair. |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/committee_debates/36_parl/session3/regsbils/T001.htm
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| | London Free Press Columnist: hip Martin - Southwest PCs, Tory must get in synch |
| | The surprise was the strong finish by Frank Klees, the MPP from Oak Ridges north of Toronto, a former transportation minister and least well-known of the three candidates. | | | He said support for Klees and Flaherty was "not an anti-John (Tory) vote." In rural Ontario, Hardeman said, Tory was more closely associated with Toronto than his rivals, partly because of his run for Toronto mayor last fall. | | | Jim Flaherty, the Whitby lawyer and former finance minister, placed second to Tory on both first and second counts provincewide. |
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/London/Chip_Martin/2004/09/25/pf-642499.html
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| | Varsity News -- Canadian Alliance drop-out assessed |
| | Klees had gained the support of five senior members of Mike Harris’ cabinet. | | | Minnema, who in the last provincial election ran as an NDP candidate, jokingly said he was considering running for Alliance candidacy himself. | | | “If we get the news out clearly, it will be good for the Alliance Party,” stated Klees, explaining why he made his decision not to run clear. |
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http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/120/apr06/news/can.html
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| | Fort Frances Times - 2004-09-01 - PC leadership hopeful meets with party members |
| | He also made many trips to the region during his stint as minister of tourism and recreation, as well as a parliamentary assistant for the minister of natural resources. | | | What Klees is perhaps best known for is his support for two-tier health care—an stance his fellow leadership candidates, John Tory and Jim Flaherty, do not agree with. | | | Regarding the party’s chances for election three years from now, he remained optimistic but admitted some changes need to be made. |
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http://www.fftimes.com/print_version.php/18170
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| | Mader Blog: Comment on Flaherty vs. Tory |
| | Posted by Patrick Harris at March 10, 2004 04:17 PM I got involved during the election and went to my first convention in Niagara Falls... | | | Frank Klees is the only candidate talking about the REAL issues within the party. | | | Frank has shown that he will stand up for the Party and Caucus first and foremonst! |
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http://www.maderblog.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=653
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| | Oak Ridges |
| | Depending on the strength of the provincial campaign, Klees will take this one with 45-55% of the vote. | | | This is not to say that Jaczek is a shoe in, unseating a Minister is difficult work. | | | Klees the absent minister should have pushed for a spring election, the longer they wait the better for Liberals. |
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http://www.electionprediction.org/2003_on/riding/oak-ridges.htm
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| | The Jewish Tribune - Current News Articles |
| | Praising the business background of his opponent John Tory, Klees nonetheless questioned his ability to lead a government. | | | According to Klees, the 20-year-old Canada Health Act is in need of critical diagnosis and surgery. | | | Klees also appeared to be in step with the Jewish community’s concerns regarding funding for security services at schools, synagogues and special events. |
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http://www.bnaibrith.ca/tribune/jt-040909-09.html
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| | Culture-Canada.ca |
| | Tina Molinari, M.P.P. Thornhill, York Region Police Chief Armand La Barge, Minister of Recreation and Tourism Frank Klees, M.P.P. Oak Ridges, Minister of Culture David Tsubouchi, Mayor Don Cousens of Markham | | | Minister of Recreation and Tourism Frank Klees, M.P.P. Oak Ridges, |
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http://www.culture-canada.ca/news_feb15.html
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| | Home Care - Ontario Community Support Association |
| | Mr Frank Klees (Oak Ridges): My question is to the associate minister of | | | The Speaker (Hon Gary Carr): The minister's time is up. | | | This morning we debated a resolution proposed by the member from |
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http://www.ocsa.on.ca/feedback/Hansard_2001/body_hansard_20011004b.html
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| | Ontario Politico: Discussion Forum |
| | Not to worry...when Dr. Chaoulli wins his case at the Supreme Court later this year or early next year, all but Frank Klees will be choking on their current healthcare statements? | | | It also appears that the blue side of conservitism is lead by Paul Mckeever the leader of The Freedom Party. | | | While the Whitby-Ajax MPP said he expected to beat Tory and MPP Frank Klees (Oak Ridges&; in the Sept. 18 vote, he suggested he might not stay on beyond the 2007 election if he's a runner-up in the race to succeed Ernie Eves as party leader. |
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http://www.mondopolitico.com/discus/messages/717/1628.html?1095726630
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| | rabble columns |
| | This time, the Ontario PC leadership candidate and former Harrisite cabinet minister has earned media attention for coming out enthusiastically in favour of two-tier for-profit health care. | | | For the second time in his political career, Frank Klees has managed to make headlines. | | | Conservative case for two-tier health care is weak |
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http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=33228
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| | Make your point. Following your opening sentence, the next sentence should state your issue/argument, correction, or additional information. | | | Use your last (closing sentence) to make a strong statement. Example: With his commitment to alternative fuels, conservation, and sensible oil exploration, Frank Klees has earned my vote for leadership of the party on Sept. 18 and in 2007 for Premier of Ontario. | | | Example: PCPO leadership candidate Frank Klees is a strong supporter of common sense solutions to Ontario's high gasoline prices and has a great plan that will work for Ontario. |
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http://www.cruisecontrolwindsor.com/styleguide.doc
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| | Taste the County, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada |
| | ntario's newly appointed Minister of Transportation, Frank Klees, formerly the Minister of Tourism, met with Prince Edward County's marketing and quality enhancement organization, Taste the County | | | Klees arranged a $15,000.00 grant for the development of Taste the County's | | | Taste the County, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada |
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http://www.pec.on.ca/tastethecounty/pressmarch2003.htm
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| | Two ways PRO-FAMILY voters can mark the ballot to ensure a pro- family leader is elected: | | | Each of Flaherty and Klees have considerable support in the leadership contest, and so it is important that every pro-marriage voter considers one of these two for their first choice and the other for their second choice. | | | Subject: Vote to Protect Marriage In The PC Party |
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http://www.maxsmewsings.com/mcvety.php
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| | Hansard Issue: L104 |
| | This legislation that was tabled for first reading today -- | | | Mr Frank Klees (Oak Ridges): Mr Speaker, on a point of order. | | | Mr Frank Klees (Oak Ridges): Speaker, I rise on a point of privilege pursuant to standing order 21. |
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http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardECAT/38-1/L104-3.htm
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| | Ontario Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill - All Party Collusion to Avoid Accountability Succeeds |
| | Only 27 of the 71 Members of the governing Liberal Party were present for the vote. | | | Of special note, Frank Klees made an admission that his party’s actions, when he was party whip during the similarly undemocratic October, 1999 passage of his party's Bill C-5, were wrong. | | | Progressive Conservative MPPs Bill Murdoch and Frank Klees spoke against the bill and made strong appeals to other members of the Legislature to join them in standing immediately after the voice vote to request a recorded vote. |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022408.html
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| | 2000 Accessions |
| | Donor: Warren Klees for Col-Mont Chapter of AARP. | | | Frank Laubach at Benton Kiwanis and Dr. J. | | | American Association of Retired Persons, Col-Mont Chapter (Chapter 1040): three notebooks of news clippings, letters, and photographs dating from 1971 to 1992. |
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http://www.colcohist-gensoc.org/Newsletters/2000_accessions.htm
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| | The Jewish Tribune - Current News Articles |
| | Leadership candidate Frank Klees also supports the Equity in Education Tax Credit, although it appears not to be a priority in his campaign. | | | While tax breaks for private school parents were adopted by the previous PC government under Ernie Eves, in which Flaherty was finance minister, they were cancelled by the Liberals under Premier Dalton McGuinty. | | | Early in the campaign, Klees announced that the centerpiece of his education policy was an effort to bring peace to schools through the development of a positive alternative to teacher strikes in consultation with frontline teachers. |
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http://www.bnaibrith.ca/tribune/jt-040902-11.html
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| | SVAO - Bill 20 Information |
| | Licensing was another topic of dicussion with the Minister. | | | Klees responded that he was still open to suggestions from the SVAO as to Bill 20 so your executive has been meeting again on this issue. | | | Early July found some of your SVAO executive and the Minister of Transportation Frank Klees sitting down to a very useful round table meeting. |
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http://www.corskan.on.ca/svao/bill20.html
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| | Radwanski's Ramblings |
| | First, when the party support Eves in his leadership bid, there was a certain expectation that the policy agenda we'd follow in the election would be his - not Jim's. | | | This is all working to Tory's benefit - Frank is draining support from Jim, and Tory is being seen as the "Ernie we should have elected.” There is no risk of Tory asking the same campaign team to run his camp. | | | But Frank actually used his corporate contacts to organize a job-fair for ex-politicos. |
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http://www.adamradwanski.com/blog190804.html
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| | www.tbsource.com Thunder Bay's Source Local News 2006 |
| | In a letter to NOTO members, Errington says Klees served as Tourism Minister in the previous Tory government, and was a dedicated champion of industry issues. | | | Web Posted: 8/4/2004 7:23:10 PM Frank Klees has the support of the President of a major northern lobby group in his bid for the provincial Conservative leadership. | | | Asked if NOTO could be seen to be endorsing the Conservative party ahead of the Liberals and NDP, he told Thunder Bay's News Source that is not the case, adding that NOTO gets along well with and has a lot of respect for current Liberal cabinet members who have responsibilities in the North. |
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http://www.tbsource.com/localnews/index.asp?cid=69081
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| | Ottawa Business Journal - News Story |
| | KLEES: Energy, second only to health care in this province, I believe must be the priority of the provincial government. | | | KLEES: The most pressing business issue in Ottawa is the need for consistent policy with respect to city services provided to small business and the need for pro-business leadership at city hall. | | | In order to ensure an adequate and long term sustainable supply, we must have a broad mix of generation sources. |
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http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/282604465930666.php
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| | No Room for Disabled in New Welfare Bill |
| | MPP Frank Klees, a Conservative member of the committee, adamantly defended the Bill, and said that educational help would be available for disabled people. | | | Sue has since confirmed with Frank Klees' office that the province no longer offers any support to the disabled for education. | | | We said that on our reading of the bill, Sue would not even have a theoretical entitlement to education after the bill went through. |
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http://perc.ca/PEN/1999-04/s-scharf.html
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| | Housechek The Speech |
| | The same day the WP’s engineer’s completed her report, the WP reversed its decision and warranted my clients claim. | | | Klees called and wrote David Tsubouchi, then Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations. | | | Shortly after the WP rejected the claim, I met with Mr. |
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http://www.housechek.com/hcspeech1.htm
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| | Candidates for Leadership of Ontario Progressive Conservative Party on Same-Sex "Marriage" |
| | I'm not opposed to the use of the notwithstanding clause in limited circumstances." | | | "My position was, when we were sitting in the legislature, that we as a province should not have registered those marriages as marriages," Frank Klees said at the debate, as reported by the Citizen. | | | TORONTO, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership hopefuls, in a leadership debate Monday, discussed their positions on same-sex "marriage." Both Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees believe that same-sex "marriage" should not have been sanctioned by the province, while John Tory said that he supports the move. |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/04083105.html
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| | The Commentary |
| | Klees or Long, would only be there for show and at the convention they’d be kingmakers for either Manning or Day. | | | A kingmaker is the loser candidate in a leadership convention who has to drop out and throw his or her’s support to one who could possibly win. | | | When Frank Klees dropped out, Tom Long became the chap touted to run. |
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http://www.thecommentary.ca/archives/20000418.html
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| | CNW Telbec |
| | Klees is in Sudbury as part of his third tour of Northern Ontario since declaring his intention to run for the PC Leadership months ago. | | | Klees also wants the Ontario PC Party to consider permitting private practice in a separate opt-out system like Britain's, arguing that this would bring back doctors and nurses who have left Ontario, and help to reverse the medical brain drain that now flows from Canada to the United States. | | | Klees: foreign-trained medical staff can help end waiting lists |
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http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/July2004/12/c2335.html
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| | 50th Anniversary |
| | Frank Klees, Minister of Tansportation giving words of greetings from the Provincial Government. | | | Dedication of the new Dining Hall and Chapel -- Left to right: Erich Beifuss, Treasurer; Martin Dilgert, Board member; Rev. Reinhold Ulonska., Family Camp German Speaker; Gerhard Weidelich, Board Member and Project Manager; Jurgen Rausch, President; Frank Weresch, Board Member; John Kehl, Board Member and Project Supervisor; Dr. Jimmy Davis, Family Camp Evening Speaker. | | | Camp Directors: Standing at the pulpit, Ernest Baumgartner - son of founding Director; left to right: Rev. Jurgen Rausch, Present President and Director; Rev. Philip Kniesel; Rev. Jacob Heidt; Rev. Kurt Middlestaedt; Rev. Paul Middelstaedt. |
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http://www.bethelpark.ca/Anniversary.html
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| | Untitled Document |
| | The “fist fight in the parking lot” politics of Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees were soundly rejected in the last election. | | | All three candidates have come out in support of the private school tax credit, more privatization of healthcare and all have picked fights with the most vulnerable. | | | Klees has abandoned everyday Ontarians in calling for an American style, two-tier healthcare system where a credit card will get you to the front of the line. |
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http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/enews/091704.htm
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| | 1 Man's Quixotic Struggle vs. -- Discuss |
| | Sadly, through his comments, Klees has already proven himself to be unfit to run for Ontario Conservative party leader, or to one day become Ontario premier. | | | That is, to run on a promise not to raise taxes, and then, upon election, to introduce a huge and regressive health care tax, while delisting medical services. | | | He promised to fix the mess he helped to create in the first place by cutting health care transfers to the provinces by $25 billion back when he was finance minister. |
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http://www.voy.com/171963/37461.html
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| | COPE Communique to new Minister of Transport Frank Klees |
| | COPE Communique to new Minister of Transport Frank Klees | | | Minister Klees, if your government is serious about maintaining its reputation as a good manager of public resources, this issue should be reviewed immediately. | | | Please by your actions give our members the chance to support candidates in the upcoming election who believe in sound economic and environmental management and who are prepared to step back from the highway approval process until Smart Growth can be understood, discussed and integrated into plans for any new transportation corridors. |
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http://www.cope-nomph.org/communique.shtml
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| | Stop-EMF - Help section |
| | Monica C.S. Frank Klees Enquiry to Education Minister | | | In the provincial legislature last week, Oak Ridges Tory MPP Frank Klees called on Energy Minister Dwight Duncan to direct Hydro One to withdraw from the class environmental assessment process. |
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http://www.stop-emf.ca/customer/help.php?section=news_article36
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| | As a member of the provincial legislature, I am concerned that community standards are upheld and that human rights are protected. | | | From: Klees-CO, Frank [frank_kleesco@ontla.ola.org] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 5:24 PM To: 'Valerie Smith' Subject: RE: Failure to protect women from hate propaganda Dear Ms Smith I want to commend the efforts you are making to raise awareness of the impact of "hate rap", and the implication to the safety and dignity of women. |
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http://www.fradical.com/Letter_from_Frank_Klees.txt
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| | ONA - ONA News |
| | Frank Klees, M.P.P. I would like to take the opportunity during Nursing Week to commend the nurses who staff our hospitals, work in doctors' offices and in the homecare field. | | | Frank Klees, M.P.P. A letter of support from Taiwan | | | Our members in the front-line fight against SARS are valued. |
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http://www.ona.org/news/sars/letters.html
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| | The Common Sense Revolution: 1995 - 2004 |
| | And a Frank Klees-led party would have been interesting because of his favouring two-tiered medicine. | | | In a country where a life sentence imposed upon the most brutal of murderers doesn’t necessarily mean life, depriving a 65-year-old woman of benefits because she defrauded the system as a single mother in her 20s is nothing more than pure posturing. | | | Martin and McGuinty rail against any aspects of privatization in health care, even though current private medical facilities are perfectly legal. |
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http://www.torontofreepress.com/2004/weinreb092704.htm
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| | Jeff Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Watson supported Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in late 2004. | | | In 2005, Watson reported accusations to the OPP that Conservative Party worker Nick Kouvalis made threats against him. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Watson
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| | CBC News: 'Presumed consent' option for organ donations sparks debate |
| | Opponents of the idea say there are other ways of increasing donations, such as a proposed law requiring people to declare their wishes when they renew their driver's licence. | | | "This is a very difficult decision for people," said Frank Markel of the Trillium Gift of Life Network, the provincial body that administers organ donations in Ontario. | | | "The declaration allows for a yes, a no, or an undecided," said Frank Klees, a Tory member of provincial parliament in Ontario who is proposing the alternative approach. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/AOLNC/science/national/2006/02/16/organ-donation060216.html
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