Frank Klees
| Frank Klees | |
|---|---|
| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1995–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Beer |
| Succeeded by | Chris Ballard |
| Constituency |
Newmarket—Aurora Oak Ridges (1999-2007) York—Mackenzie (1995-1999) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 6, 1951 Landau, West Germany |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Residence | Aurora, Ontario |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Frank Klees (born March 6, 1951) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
Klees was born in Landau, West Germany. His parents were Danube Swabians, German pioneers whose ancestors settled in parts of eastern Europe that would later be known as Hungary and Yugoslavia. At the age of five, Klees came with his family to Canada and settled in Leamington, Ontario. He worked as a businessman in the financial services sector with Canada Life Assurance. He then became an entrepreneur, and started a sports agency which represented professional athletes. Klees also co-founded the Municipal Gas Corporation in 1990, and served as its executive vice-president until 1997.
Klees sat on the board of the controversial Universal Energy Corporation, a natural gas and electricity retailer which has been fined by the Ontario Energy Board on several occasions and frequently criticised by its own customers as being a scam. When Universal was bought out by Just Energy he was presented a seat on the board of their Exchange corporation.
From 1992 to 1994, he was third vice-president and policy chair of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Klees lives in Aurora, Ontario.
Klees ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election losing to Liberal Remo Mancini in the southwestern riding of Essex South. He lost to Mancini a second time in the 1977 election.
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