Ernie Parsons
| Ernie Parsons | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1999–2007 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | Leona Dombrowsky |
| Constituency | Prince Edward—Hastings |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 5, 1946 Belleville, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
Ernie Parsons (born June 5, 1946) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1999 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as a Justice of the Peace.
Parsons received a Civil Engineering degree from Carleton University in 1969, and was employed by the Ministry of Transportation from 1969 to 1974, and taught Technology courses at Loyalist College from 1974 to 1999. He also worked as a farmer, and was a board member of the Hastings County Children's Aid Society for twenty-five years and its chair for three. Parsons was a founding member of the Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage, and sat on advisory committees to the Kingston Hotel Dieu, the Kingston General Hospital and the Queen's University Faculty of Medicine. Parsons served on the school board of the Hastings—Prince Edward district from 1982 to 1999.
In the 1999 provincial election he defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Gary Fox by 56 votes in Prince Edward—Hastings. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Parsons spent the next four years in opposition.
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