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Speller was first elected in the 1988 Canadian federal election as a member of the Liberal Party, defeating incumbent Bud Bradley by only 209 votes.
His father, Ernest Winch, was a prominent member of the British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and his brother Harold Winch led the same party in the 1940s and 1950s and was later a New Democratic Party parliamentarian in the Canadian House of Commons.
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He received 12,897 votes (37.28%), finishing second against New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas.
The Globe and Mail described his 1974 campaign against New Democratic Party (NDP) incumbent John Rodriguez as one of the most bitter in Ontario.
He served on the Brant County council for four years before 1980, and in the 1980 municipal election he won election to the Brantford City Council in a temporary ward covering land annexed from the county.
He received 9,178 votes (23.57%), finishing second against New Democratic Party incumbent John Rodriguez.
After the election, Epp accepted a position as the Senior Policy Advisor to The Honourable David Caplan, Ontario Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal.
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After the 1995 provincial election resulted in a Progressive Conservative victory, Mahoney traveled the province on what he "wryly called the Hugh Grant apology tour'".
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After graduating, he opted to put himself within arm's reach of Canada's political hearth and enrolled at the University of Ottawa's law school.
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He was hired by the prestigious Linklaters firm of New York in 1996, and practiced international finance and corporate law.