George Dadamo
| George Dadamo | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1990–1995 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Wrye |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Pupatello |
| Constituency | Windsor—Sandwich |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 3, 1953 Windsor, Ontario |
| Political party | New Democrat |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Abbotsford, British Columbia |
| Occupation | Radio broadcaster |
George Dadamo (born November 3, 1953) is a former Canadian politician. He served as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995 representing the southwestern provincial riding of Windsor—Sandwich.
Dadamo worked in radio as a broadcaster for CKLW/CKWW in Windsor, CKCK in Regina, Saskatchewan and CHNL in Kamloops, British Columbia between 1973 and 1989. He lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Dadamo ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial election, finishing second to incumbent Liberal Bill Wrye in the riding of Windsor—Sandwich by 2,459 votes. The NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Dadamo defeated Wrye by 4,145 votes in a rematch from 1987. He served as parliamentary assistant to both the Minister of Transportation and to the Minister of Culture and Communications.
During his time in office, Dadamo sponsored three private member's bills; the first sought to give workers up to one year's notice of an impending factory shutdown, the second was for a property tax exemption on a new arena being built in Windsor, and the third would have restricted vendors from sidewalks in Windsor. In 1994 Dadamo was appointed as chair of a task force called the Transit Integration Task Force. It studied how to implement 'seamless transit' across the GTA. It proposed a weekly pass for $30 that could be used anywhere in the region. He said, "We're talking about making borders disappear for people who use transit."
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