{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Norm Jamison | image = | office = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]] | term_start = 1990 | term_end = 1995 | predecessor = [[Gord Miller (politician)|Gord Miller]] | successor = [[Toby Barrett]] | constituency = [[Norfolk (provincial electoral district)|Norfolk]] | party = [[Ontario New Democratic Party|New Democrat]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1950|5|25}} | birth_place = [[Ireland]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|3|1950|5|25}} | death_place = [[Port Rowan, Ontario]], Canada | occupation = Steelworker }} '''Norman Johnston Jamison''' (May 25, 1950 – October 3, 2017) was a [[politician]] in [[Ontario]], Canada. He was a [[New Democratic Party of Ontario|New Democratic Party]] member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1990 to 1995. He died on October 3, 2017, of liver cancer at the age of 67.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2017/10/04/norm-jamison-67-was-surprise-mpp-in-rae-government|title=Norm Jamison, 67, was surprise MPP in Rae government |first=Monte |last=Sonnenberg|website=Simcoe Reformer|accessdate=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712030105/http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2017/10/04/norm-jamison-67-was-surprise-mpp-in-rae-government|archivedate=July 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}<br>- [http://www.rhbandersonfuneralhomes.com/cms/obituaries/norman-jamison/ "Norman Jamison"], RHB Anderson Funeral Hones Ltd</ref>
==Background== Jamison was president of his student council at Memorial Public School, but did not attend university. He was employed by [[Stelco]] for twenty years, and also worked as a representative of the [[United Way of Canada|United Way]] in [[Norfolk County, Ontario]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Let's start the family feud largely rural race features clash of two popular local families |last=Nolan |first=Dan |newspaper=The Spectator |location=Hamilton, Ont |date=May 20, 1999 |page=C2}}</ref>
==Politics== He ran for the Ontario legislature in the [[1987 Ontario general election|1987 provincial election]], but finished almost 9,000 votes behind the [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]] candidate, [[Gord Miller (politician)|Gord Miller]], in the southwestern Ontario riding of [[Norfolk (electoral district)|Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Results from individual ridings |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=September 11, 1987 |page=F2}}</ref>
The NDP won a majority government in the [[1990 Ontario general election|1990 provincial election]], and Jamison was elected over Miller by almost 4,000 votes in a rematch from 1987.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ontario election: Riding-by-riding voting results |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 7, 1990 |page=A12}}</ref> He was a [[parliamentary assistant]] to the [[Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology (Ontario)|Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology]] and the [[Minister of Economic Development and Trade (Ontario)|Minister of Economic Development and Trade]] over the next five years.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meeting seeks economic cure |last=Nolan |first=Dan |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator |date=March 4, 1993 |page=B4}}</ref>
The NDP were defeated in the [[1995 Ontario general election|1995 provincial election]], and Jamison finished third against the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Progressive Conservative]] [[Toby Barrett]] in his bid for re-election.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215103637/https://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |accessdate=February 3, 2014 }}</ref>
Jamison left the NDP to join the Liberal Party before the [[1999 Ontario general election|1999 provincial election]], and endorsed the Liberal candidate in the redistributed riding of [[Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant]].
He ran for municipal councillor in [[Haldimand County, Ontario|Haldimand County]] in 2000, but was defeated.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bergstrand survives strong challenge from Trainer |last=Diebel |first=Lise |newspaper=The Spectator|location=Hamilton, Ontario |date=November 14, 2000 |page=D08}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Ontario MPP biography|id=norman-jamison}}
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