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4 unusual facts about Charles Harnick


Charles Harnick

In 1996, Harnick was asked to comment about a racist remark that Premier Mike Harris had allegedly made regarding the Ipperwash crisis.

He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1999, and served as a senior cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.

Opposition NDP member Bud Wildman asked him, "Who, if anyone, said 'get the fucking Indians out of the park'?"

Harnick ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial legislature, losing to Liberal Gino Matrundola by 4,034 votes in the North York riding of Willowdale.



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