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| office = ]
| term_start = 2022
| term_end =
| predecessor = Aldo DiCarlo
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| term_start1 = 2001
| term_end1 = 2014
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| office2 = Toronto City Councillor
| constituency2 = Ward 32, Beaches—East York
| term_start2 = 1998
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| successor2 = Michael Tziretas
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'''Michael David Prue''' (born July 14, 1948) is a politician in ], Canada. Prue was mayor of ] to 1997 and subsequently represented the riding of ] in the ] from 2001 to 2014 as member of the ] (NDP)'s ] caucus. He was a candidate in the ], finishing in fourth place. In 2018, he was elected to the town council of ],<ref name=town>{{Cite web|url=https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/dicarlo-re-elected-amherstburg-mayor-calls-it-referendum-on-his-agenda|title = DiCarlo re-elected Amherstburg mayor, calls it referendum on his agenda}}</ref> and in 2022 he was elected its mayor.


==Background==
'''Michael Prue''' (born ], ] in ], ]) is a ] politician, who represents the ] of ] in the ]. He is currently the ] critic for Finance, Municipal Affairs and Housing, Public Infrastructure Renewal, Community and Social Services and the Management Board of Cabinet, and for issues related to Toronto.
⚫ Prue grew up in Toronto's ] neighbourhood.<ref name="leader">{{cite news |last=Leslie |first=Keith |title=Former East York mayor Michael Prue launches bid to be Ontario NDP leader |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=July 18, 2007 |location=Toronto}}</ref> He has a ] degree in ] and ] from the ], and a ] degree in ] from ]. After graduation, he worked as counsel for the Minister of Employment and Immigration.


⚫ During his time as a federal government employee, Prue was an activist in the Canada Employment & Immigration Union, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
⚫ ==Education and early political career==


==Politics==
⚫ Prue has a ] degree in ] and ] from the ], and a ] degree in ] from ]. After graduation, he worked as counsel for the Minister of Employment and Immigration.
⚫ ===Early political career===
In the ], Prue ran as a ] candidate in ] and received 9237 votes for a third-place finish.<ref name="1980 results">{{cite news |title=Federal general election results listed riding-by-riding |newspaper=The Ottawa Citizen |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ha4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fe4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2698%2C1032477 |date=February 19, 1987 |pages=29–30}}</ref> He ran in the same riding in the ], again placing third.<ref name="1984 results">{{cite web |title=How Canada voted |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 5, 1984 |pages=14–15}}</ref>


===Municipal politics and mayoralty===
⚫ During his time as a federal government employee, Prue was an activist in the Canada Employment & Immigration Union, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
Prue became a councillor in ] in 1988. In 1993 he was appointed ] of the borough. The previous mayor ] resigned when he won a provincial by-election. Rather than pay for the expense of a mayoral campaign, the East York council decided to choose a candidate from amongst themselves. Prue won the position after five ballots.<ref name="TOStar 19930408">{{cite news |last=Duncanson |first=John |title=East York appoints a new mayor |newspaper=The Toronto Star |date=April 8, 1993 |location=Toronto |page=A5}}</ref> The next year, he was elected mayor in the ] and remained in the position until 1997, when East York and the other component municipalities of ] were merged into the single municipality of the city of ]. During his tenure as mayor, Prue brought in five consecutive budgets without a tax increase, while cutting East York's debt by $7.8 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Prue biography |url=https://www.toronto.ca/ext/digital_comm/inquiry/inquiry_site/gg/bio_pdf/Prue_Michael_bio.pdf |website=City of Toronto website |publisher=City of Toronto |accessdate=October 14, 2020}}</ref>


⚫ Before the 1998 municipal election, Prue successfully lobbied the provincial government to allot a third council seat for East York to improve its representation on ]. Following amalgamation, Prue was elected to represent Ward 32 on ].
In the ], Prue ran as a federal ] candidate in ] and received 9237 votes for a third-place finish. He ran in the same riding in the ], again placing third.


===Provincial politics===
Prue became a councillor in ] in 1988 and ] of the borough in 1993. He held the position until 1997, when East York and the other component municipalities of ] were merged into a single municipality (called the "megacity") by the Ontario government. As mayor, Prue was widely respected for bringing in five consecutive budgets with no tax increases, cutting East York's debt by $7.8 million, and ushering in new industry, commercial growth, and jobs to the community.
On September 20, 2001, Prue won a ] to replace retiring NDP MPP ] in the Ontario legislature. There was some controversy during the by-election. ] candidate ] accused the NDP of smearing his reputation. He accused Prue of calling him a pedophile based on a book he wrote in 1988. Pages of the book, which portrayed sexual encounters with young prostitutes, were faxed to journalists during the campaign. Hunter launched a libel lawsuit against Prue and NDP leader ] but dropped the suit after the election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boyle |first1=Teresa |first2=Caroline |last2=Mallan |date=September 21, 2001 |title=Prue off to Queen's Park as NDP wins by-election |newspaper=The Toronto Star |pages=F1, F4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Benzie |first=Robert |date=September 19, 2001 |title=Liberal candidate suing NDP in melee over book: Greenpeace co-founder's 'satire' depicted sex with teenage girls |newspaper=National Post |location=Toronto |page=A15}}</ref> Prue won the by-election with 50% of the vote while Hunter received 36%.


He was re-elected in ],<ref name="2003 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/2003_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=38&rec=0&district=beaches-east+york&flag=E&layout=G |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 2, 2003 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ],<ref name="2007 results">{{cite web|url=http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/AB409CCD-84F3-46FA-B3BD-39AB659EFC2D/0/SummaryofValidBallotsCastforEachCandidate.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007160233/http://www.elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/AB409CCD-84F3-46FA-B3BD-39AB659EFC2D/0/SummaryofValidBallotsCastforEachCandidate.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 7, 2009 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 10, 2007 |accessdate=2014-03-02 |page=1 (x) }}</ref> and ],<ref name="2011 results">{{cite web|url=http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/7849B894-4C4F-490E-9E8C-271BCF0C0D4D/5712/SummaryofvalidvotescastforeacndGE2011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330163815/http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/7849B894-4C4F-490E-9E8C-271BCF0C0D4D/5712/SummaryofvalidvotescastforeacndGE2011.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 30, 2013 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 6, 2011 |accessdate=2014-03-02 |page=1 }}</ref> with large pluralities.
⚫ Before the megacity election, Prue successfully lobbied the provincial government to allot a third council seat for East York to improve its representation on ], and then was elected to that council. He was named "Best Local Politician" by the '']'' in 1999.


In 2002 Prue undertook a week-long "welfare diet", trying to live on $12.05 for an entire week to draw attention to the condition of Ontario's poorest residents under the ] government.<ref>{{cite news |last=Benzie |first=Robert |date=September 24, 2002 |title=New Democrats mock Eves's 'Gucci shoes': NDP MPP Prue boasts of his week on welfare diet |newspaper=The Toronto Star |page=A8}}</ref> In 2004 during a debate over expenses charged by school trustees, Prue said that city councillors could do much of the work of trustees. He appeared to support combining the two roles.<ref>{{cite news |last=Boyle |first=Theresa |date=November 19, 2004 |title=Toronto trustees roll back expenses |newspaper=The Toronto Star |page=A12}}</ref> In 2007 he supported a push for more accountability for executive compensation packages. In May, 2007, he tabled a private member's bill called the ''Conrad Black Executive Compensation Abuse Act'' which sought to have pay packages put to binding shareholder votes.<ref>{{cite news |last=McFarland |first=Janet |date=June 11, 2007 |title='Say on pay' fight heads north |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |page=B3}}</ref>
==Election to the Ontario legislature==


He has also championed affordable housing in Toronto.<ref>{{cite news |last=Prue |first=Michael |date=August 2, 2002 |title=NDP supported non-profit housing (Letter to the Editor) |newspaper=The Toronto Star |page=A23}}</ref>
On ], ] Prue won a ] to replace retiring NDP MPP ] in the Ontario legislature. The by-election was controversial due to a smear campaign against] candidate ] in 1988. Hunter's ''On the Sky: Zen and the Art of International Freeloading'' included first-person accounts of the narrator's sexual encounters with multiple young prostitutes ("nearer to children than women") in ]. Pages from the book, which was available in Toronto's public library, were faxed to journalists during the campaign. In response, Hunter insisted the book, classified as non-fiction with a "The Ultimate Escape Fantasy -- And It's All True!" claim on the jacket, was ], and that an opposing campaign had sent the fax. Although some media speculated that Prue's campaign was the source of the fax, Prue denied that his campaign was involved, and the fax's source has never been confirmed.


===2009 leadership convention===
Prue won the by-election with almost 50% of the vote, and was re-elected with over 50% support in the subsequent ].
On July 18, 2008, Prue announced his intention to seek the leadership of the Ontario NDP at its 2009 leadership convention.<ref name=leader/> At a press conference to announce his bid to replace ] as leader of the Ontario NDP party, Prue made remarks on public funding for ] in Ontario. "The NDP policy is there, it says that we support the dual system," he said. "It is time though, I think, that we take a look at that, but we need to leave that to convention. It cannot be my position or an individual's position... rather it must be a party position and we must have an open and frank debate to get to that point." He insisted he wasn't trying to reopen the debate about religion and schools.<ref name="CBC 20080718">{{cite news|title=Prue opens NDP leadership bid with school funding controversy |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/prue-opens-ndp-leadership-bid-with-school-funding-controversy-1.702611 |accessdate=2012-01-13 |newspaper=CBC News |date=July 8, 2008 |author=The Canadian Press |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113113741/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2008/07/18/prue-ndp.html |archivedate=November 13, 2012 |location=Toronto |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Prue received 11.5% of the votes (weighted) on the first ballot, finishing in fourth place. According to the rules of the contest, as the last place finisher he was dropped off the next ballot. Prue gave his personal endorsement to ] who finished in third place on the first ballot with 23.7% of the weighted vote. After Bisson was eliminated on the next ballot, Prue endorsed ], who won the leadership on the third ballot with 60.4% over rival ].
In 2002 Prue undertook a week-long "welfare diet", trying to live on $12.75 for an entire week to draw attention to the condition of Ontario's poorest residents under the ] and ] governments. He has also championed affordable housing in Toronto.

Prue reported raising $79,411.74 for his leadership bid, the lowest of the four contestants. His expenses were the second highest at $222,320.94. His reported deficit was $142,909.20, the highest of the four contestants.<ref name="Elections Ontario 2009 NDP Leaders">{{cite web|title=2009 Leadership Contestant Contest Period Financial Statement CR-5: Michael Prue |url=http://www2.elections.on.ca/stats/09files/leadership/ndp/09ndppruecr5-1.htm |work=Elections Ontario |publisher=Queen's Printer for Ontario |accessdate=2012-01-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827171153/http://www2.elections.on.ca/stats/09files/leadership/ndp/09ndppruecr5-1.htm |archivedate=2011-08-27 |location=Toronto |date=2010-10-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Subsequent career===

Prue was narrowly defeated by ] candidate ] in the ]. He lost by 431 votes.<ref>{{cite news |last=Simmie |first=Scott |title=Liberal Arthur Potts ousts NDP Michael Prue in tight race in Beaches-East York riding |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario_election/riding_profiles/2014/06/12/tight_liberalndp_race_could_head_to_recount_in_beacheast_york_in_ontario_election.html |accessdate=June 13, 2014 |newspaper=CBC News |date=June 13, 2014}}</ref><ref name="2014 results">{{cite web |title=General Election by District: Beaches-East York |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 12, 2014 |url=http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/general-election-district-results.aspx?d=005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614000715/http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/general-election-district-results.aspx?d=005 |archivedate=June 14, 2014 }}</ref>

==After Queen's Park==
Following his defeat in 2014, Prue and his wife decided to sell their house in Toronto in order to fund their retirement in a smaller town, moving to ], outside of ], Ontario.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/henderson-essex-county-is-ontarios-best-kept-secret|title = Henderson: Essex County is Ontario's best-kept secret}}</ref> After sitting on the town's ], Prue was elected to town council in 2018.<ref name=town/> He was elected as mayor of Amherstburg in the ].

==References==
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Canadian politician

Michael Prue
Mayor of Amherstburg
Incumbent
Assumed office
2022
Preceded byAldo DiCarlo
Ontario MPP
In office
2001–2014
Preceded byFrances Lankin
Succeeded byArthur Potts
ConstituencyBeaches—East York
Toronto City Councillor
In office
1998–2001
Preceded byWard created
Succeeded byMichael Tziretas
ConstituencyWard 32, Beaches—East York
6th Mayor of East York
In office
1993–1997
Preceded byDavid Johnson
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born (1948-07-14) July 14, 1948 (age 76)
Toronto, Ontario
Political partyNew Democrat
SpouseShirley Prue
ResidenceAmherstburg, Ontario
OccupationCivil servant

Michael David Prue (born July 14, 1948) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Prue was mayor of East York, Ontario to 1997 and subsequently represented the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2001 to 2014 as member of the New Democratic Party (NDP)'s Queen's Park caucus. He was a candidate in the 2009 Ontario NDP leadership election, finishing in fourth place. In 2018, he was elected to the town council of Amherstburg, Ontario, and in 2022 he was elected its mayor.

Background

Prue grew up in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and anthropology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University. After graduation, he worked as counsel for the Minister of Employment and Immigration.

During his time as a federal government employee, Prue was an activist in the Canada Employment & Immigration Union, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

Politics

Early political career

In the 1980 federal election, Prue ran as a federal NDP candidate in Scarborough Centre and received 9237 votes for a third-place finish. He ran in the same riding in the 1984 election, again placing third.

Municipal politics and mayoralty

Prue became a councillor in East York in 1988. In 1993 he was appointed mayor of the borough. The previous mayor David Johnson resigned when he won a provincial by-election. Rather than pay for the expense of a mayoral campaign, the East York council decided to choose a candidate from amongst themselves. Prue won the position after five ballots. The next year, he was elected mayor in the 1994 municipal election and remained in the position until 1997, when East York and the other component municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto were merged into the single municipality of the city of Toronto. During his tenure as mayor, Prue brought in five consecutive budgets without a tax increase, while cutting East York's debt by $7.8 million.

Before the 1998 municipal election, Prue successfully lobbied the provincial government to allot a third council seat for East York to improve its representation on Toronto City Council. Following amalgamation, Prue was elected to represent Ward 32 on Toronto City Council.

Provincial politics

On September 20, 2001, Prue won a by-election to replace retiring NDP MPP Frances Lankin in the Ontario legislature. There was some controversy during the by-election. Liberal candidate Bob Hunter accused the NDP of smearing his reputation. He accused Prue of calling him a pedophile based on a book he wrote in 1988. Pages of the book, which portrayed sexual encounters with young prostitutes, were faxed to journalists during the campaign. Hunter launched a libel lawsuit against Prue and NDP leader Howard Hampton but dropped the suit after the election. Prue won the by-election with 50% of the vote while Hunter received 36%.

He was re-elected in 2003, 2007, and 2011, with large pluralities.

In 2002 Prue undertook a week-long "welfare diet", trying to live on $12.05 for an entire week to draw attention to the condition of Ontario's poorest residents under the Mike Harris government. In 2004 during a debate over expenses charged by school trustees, Prue said that city councillors could do much of the work of trustees. He appeared to support combining the two roles. In 2007 he supported a push for more accountability for executive compensation packages. In May, 2007, he tabled a private member's bill called the Conrad Black Executive Compensation Abuse Act which sought to have pay packages put to binding shareholder votes.

He has also championed affordable housing in Toronto.

2009 leadership convention

On July 18, 2008, Prue announced his intention to seek the leadership of the Ontario NDP at its 2009 leadership convention. At a press conference to announce his bid to replace Howard Hampton as leader of the Ontario NDP party, Prue made remarks on public funding for Catholic schools in Ontario. "The NDP policy is there, it says that we support the dual system," he said. "It is time though, I think, that we take a look at that, but we need to leave that to convention. It cannot be my position or an individual's position... rather it must be a party position and we must have an open and frank debate to get to that point." He insisted he wasn't trying to reopen the debate about religion and schools.

Prue received 11.5% of the votes (weighted) on the first ballot, finishing in fourth place. According to the rules of the contest, as the last place finisher he was dropped off the next ballot. Prue gave his personal endorsement to Gilles Bisson who finished in third place on the first ballot with 23.7% of the weighted vote. After Bisson was eliminated on the next ballot, Prue endorsed Andrea Horwath, who won the leadership on the third ballot with 60.4% over rival Peter Tabuns.

Prue reported raising $79,411.74 for his leadership bid, the lowest of the four contestants. His expenses were the second highest at $222,320.94. His reported deficit was $142,909.20, the highest of the four contestants.

Subsequent career

Prue was narrowly defeated by Liberal candidate Arthur Potts in the 2014 provincial election. He lost by 431 votes.

After Queen's Park

Following his defeat in 2014, Prue and his wife decided to sell their house in Toronto in order to fund their retirement in a smaller town, moving to Amherstburg, outside of Windsor, Ontario. After sitting on the town's committee of adjustment, Prue was elected to town council in 2018. He was elected as mayor of Amherstburg in the 2022 municipal election.

References

  1. ^ "DiCarlo re-elected Amherstburg mayor, calls it referendum on his agenda".
  2. ^ Leslie, Keith (July 18, 2007). "Former East York mayor Michael Prue launches bid to be Ontario NDP leader". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
  3. "Federal general election results listed riding-by-riding". The Ottawa Citizen. February 19, 1987. pp. 29–30.
  4. "How Canada voted". The Globe and Mail. September 5, 1984. pp. 14–15. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. Duncanson, John (April 8, 1993). "East York appoints a new mayor". The Toronto Star. Toronto. p. A5.
  6. "Michael Prue biography" (PDF). City of Toronto website. City of Toronto. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  7. Boyle, Teresa; Mallan, Caroline (September 21, 2001). "Prue off to Queen's Park as NDP wins by-election". The Toronto Star. pp. F1, F4.
  8. Benzie, Robert (September 19, 2001). "Liberal candidate suing NDP in melee over book: Greenpeace co-founder's 'satire' depicted sex with teenage girls". National Post. Toronto. p. A15.
  9. "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. October 2, 2003. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  10. "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. October 10, 2007. p. 1 (x). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 7, 2009. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  11. "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. October 6, 2011. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 30, 2013. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  12. Benzie, Robert (September 24, 2002). "New Democrats mock Eves's 'Gucci shoes': NDP MPP Prue boasts of his week on welfare diet". The Toronto Star. p. A8.
  13. Boyle, Theresa (November 19, 2004). "Toronto trustees roll back expenses". The Toronto Star. p. A12.
  14. McFarland, Janet (June 11, 2007). "'Say on pay' fight heads north". The Globe and Mail. p. B3.
  15. Prue, Michael (August 2, 2002). "NDP supported non-profit housing (Letter to the Editor)". The Toronto Star. p. A23.
  16. The Canadian Press (July 8, 2008). "Prue opens NDP leadership bid with school funding controversy". CBC News. Toronto. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
  17. "2009 Leadership Contestant Contest Period Financial Statement CR-5: Michael Prue". Elections Ontario. Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario. 2010-10-05. Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
  18. Simmie, Scott (June 13, 2014). "Liberal Arthur Potts ousts NDP Michael Prue in tight race in Beaches-East York riding". CBC News. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  19. "General Election by District: Beaches-East York". Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014. Archived from the original on June 14, 2014.
  20. "Henderson: Essex County is Ontario's best-kept secret".

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