{"id":3341,"date":"2004-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2004\/09\/22\/osgoode-alumni-dominate-pc-leadership-race\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:50:45","slug":"osgoode-alumni-dominate-pc-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2004\/09\/22\/osgoode-alumni-dominate-pc-leadership-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgoode alumni dominate PC leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Osgoode alumnus John Tory (LLB \u201978)&nbsp;won the leadership of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives Saturday at the party's convention in Toronto \u2013 a race that saw two Osgoode graduates vying to replace a third.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG height=\"359\" alt=\"john tory\" hspace=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20040922\/tory2.jpg\" width=\"252\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\">Tory succeeds former Ontario premier Ernie Eves (LLB \u201970) as leader of the official Opposition at Queen\u2019s Park. He defeated Jim Flaherty (LLB \u201973) by more than 3,300 votes.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Left: John Tory, new Ontario PC leader<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\"I remember John from the days when he and I were students in the late 1970s,\" said Osgoode Dean Patrick Monahan. \"Even then he demonstrated strong leadership skills and the ability to bring people together. In fact, it took me a few months to realize that he was a fellow student rather than a member of the faculty.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>\"John has remained a strong supporter of the law school through the years, and it's good to know that Osgoode will have another strong supporter at Queen's Park,\" Monahan said .<\/P><br \/>\n<P>In addition to practising law briefly, Tory served as commissioner of the Canadian Football League and as CEO of Rogers Cable. He takes over a party that was reduced to 24 seats in the October 2003 provincial election,&nbsp;versus 72 seats for the governing Liberals under Premier Dalton McGuinty. The next Ontario election will be held in 2007.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Principal secretary in the mid-1980s to premier Bill Davis, Tory is expected to reposition the party as more moderate than it was under former premier Mike Harris.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tory won Ontario's Progressive Conservative leadership Saturday in a race that saw two Osgoode graduates vying to replace a third...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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