{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Paul Macklin | honorific_suffix = PC MP | parliament = Canadian | riding = Northumberland—Quinte West<br><small>Northumberland (2000–2004)</small> | term_start = November 27, 2000 | term_end = November 29, 2005 | predecessor = ''Riding established'' | successor = Rick Norlock | birth_name = Paul Harold Macklin | birth_date = May 22, 1944 | birth_place = Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada | alma_mater = University of Western Ontario (BA)<br>University of Windsor | party = Liberal }}
'''Paul Harold Macklin''', PC, MP (born May 22, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Northumberland—Quinte West of the Liberal Party caucus from 2000 to 2006.<ref name="CBC 2008">{{cite news|title=Canada Votes 2008: Northumberland - Quinte West |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/riding/165/candidate.html |date=7 November 2008 |publisher=CBC News |accessdate=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322042946/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/riding/165/candidate.html |archivedate=March 22, 2009 }}</ref>
Macklin has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a law degree from the University of Windsor. After being called to the bar, Macklin worked for the Toronto firm of Davies, Ward & Beck.<ref name="CBC 2008"/>
He was first elected to Parliament in the federal election of 2000, winning a fairly easily victory over his Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative opponents in the riding of Northumberland. The CA and PC parties merged in late 2003, and Macklin faced a much more difficult challenge in that year's federal election, defeating Conservative Doug Galt by only 313 votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Canada Votes 2006: Northumberland - Analysis & Commentary |url=http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2006/analysiscommentary/swingridings.html |date=23 January 2006 |publisher=CBC News |accessdate=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505044201/http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2006/analysiscommentary/swingridings.html |archivedate=May 5, 2009 }}</ref>
Macklin served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from February 2002 to December 2003, and was re-appointed to the position on July 20, 2004.<ref name="PARLINFO">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=10456|nolist=yes}}</ref>
He was defeated by Conservative Rick Norlock in the 2006 election. Macklin was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate for the riding of Northumberland-Quinte West for the 2008 election, and was again defeated by Norlock.<ref name="CBC 2008"/>
In July 2009, Paul Macklin announced he would not seek the Liberal nomination in Northumberland-Quinte West for the next election. The following September his successor was determined by a Liberal nomination race and Cobourg business woman Kim Rudd was chosen to succeed Macklin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.northumberlandnews.com/article/129829|title=Northumberland County Breaking News - Northumberland County's Online Newspaper|date=7 July 2023 }}</ref>
Paul Macklin currently sits on the Northumberland-Quinte West Federal Liberal Association as the Policy Director, still active in politics and a key advisor to Rudd and her campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nqwliberals.ca/v2/?page_id=109 |title=Executive | |accessdate=2011-03-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226065449/http://nqwliberals.ca/v2/?page_id=109 |archivedate=2011-02-26 }}</ref>
==Electoral record== {{2000 Canadian federal election/Northumberland}} {{2004 Canadian federal election/Northumberland—Quinte West}} {{2006 Canadian federal election/Northumberland—Quinte West}} {{2008 Canadian federal election/Northumberland—Quinte West}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macklin, Paul}} Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Lawyers in Ontario Category:University of Western Ontario alumni Category:University of Windsor Faculty of Law alumni Category:People from Northumberland County, Ontario Category:21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada