Garth Turner

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Garth Turner, PC, MP, BA (born March 14 1949) is a Canadian business journalist, broadcaster, and politician. In the 2006 federal election, he was elected Conservative MP for Halton.

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Early life and career

Turner was born in Woodstock, Ontario, and educated at the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario.

Turner became business editor at the Toronto Sun and the author of several books proffering investment advice before he entered politics.

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Progressive Conservative MP

Turner was elected as a Progressive Conservative MP in the 1988 election. He was a candidate at the 1993 Progressive Conservative leadership convention, and placed fourth on the first ballot, with 76 votes. He was appointed Minister of National Revenue in the short-lived cabinet of Kim Campbell.

Turner lost his seat in the 1993 election when the PC Party was reduced from a majority in the Canadian House of Commons to only two seats. He gained some infamy when he called Jean Chretien a "meathead."

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Investment guru

After his election loss, Turner become business editor for Baton Broadcasting and authored a string of best-selling books on real estate and personal finance. This exposure contributed to his becoming one of Canada's most popular speakers on financial issues.

After parting with Baton, he formed the television production company Milennium Media Television. In 2002, the CBC television investigative newsmagazine Disclosure aired a report, "Paying for Time", alleging his Millennium Media Television programs sometimes broadcast unattributed quasi-infomercials.

Also during this period, Turner accepted work as a paid presenter to prospective clients for a variety of investment companies, which attracted the attention of the Ontario Securities Commission – Turner was never a registered investment advisor – and the OSC launched but abandoned an informal investigation of his activities.

Turner's investment advice has been suspect on occasion, such as advising people to buy Nortel stock when it began to decline in value, and would continue to do so until it was worth only pennies (although many other analysts gave the same advice).

Turner is also founder and CEO of The Credit River Company, a Caledon-based destination and ecotourism company that is noted for the restoration of heritage buildings in the area. Turner served as national director of the Vancouver-based Sierra Legal Defence Fund, an organization dedicated to upholding environmental laws, resigning after his return to the House of Commons.

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Conservative MP

Turner returned to politics with his election as a Conservative MP for Halton in the general election in 2006. He is viewed as one of the few newly elected Red Tories in Ontario for the Conservative Party.

Turner was one of the most vocal Conservative MP's against the floor-crossing of David Emerson to the Cabinet of Stephen Harper.

After a stern chat with Stephen Harper about Emerson, Turner wrote on his blog that "I'm expecting the Whip will be assigning me a renovated washroom somewhere in a forgotten corner of a vermin-infested dank basement in Ottawa. That should go well with my seat in the House of Commons that will be visible only during lunar eclipses." It should be noted however that Mr. Turner reported a week later in his blog that he received a newly renovated office with a good view.


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