Ted McMeekin has been sworn in as Ontario’s agriculture minister following the Oct. 6 election, in which the Liberals won 53 seats, just one short of a majority.
McMeekin, from the Hamilton area, has previously served as minister of consumer services, minister of government services and as parliamentary assistant to the minister of education and to the minister of training, colleges and universities.
McMeekin first won a seat in the Ontario legislature in a 2000 byelection.
He has also sat as mayor of Flamborough, then as a Hamilton city councillor, and holds a master’s of social work degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Ontario’s previous ag minister Carol Mitchell lost her seat in the election, as did Leona Dumbrowsky, agriculture minister from 2005-10.
McMeekin lives in Waterdown, Ont., with his wife Barbara and three daughters.
