Green Party of Ontario candidates in the 1999 Ontario provincial election

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The Green Party of Ontario fielded 58 candidates in the 1999 Ontario provincial election, but none were elected. Here are a few of the candidates and their backgrounds:

McColl: She was 56 and had recently retired from teaching at Mohawk College. She received 495 votes (1.20%), finishing fourth behind NDP candidate David Christopherson.

Larry Tyldsley: An activist, director, and producer who worked on social justice issues in Central America in the 1980s. He started a shelter for street alcoholics, served as a community education coordinator in Ottawa, and led the New Canadians Centre in Peterborough. He later produced a documentary, Searching for Buddha, and has run as a Green Party candidate in two provincial elections. He has been vocal about environmental and social issues, including car use and government tax policies, and has written in support of the Canadian Firearms Registry.

Woodard: Born in 1942 in Alberta and raised in Quebec, he is now a retiree living in St. Catharines. He contributes to the Babble.ca forum and has written in support of the single transferable vote. A Green Party member since 1984, he received 215 votes (0.46%) in 1999, finishing fifth against Liberal Jim Bradley.

Khalsa: A frequent Green candidate in the 1990s, he co-founded Toronto’s Local Employment and Trading System (LETS), which uses GreenDollars for local trade. He was listed as a LETS administrator in 1993 and promised to donate half his parliamentary salary to community groups if elected in 1993. He described himself as a househusband in the 1997 federal election and has called for greater democracy within families and for peace officers who would only use guns in self-defense.

Dugdale: A Windsor writer and academic with an MA from the University of Windsor and a PhD from Wayne State University. He campaigned for the Green Party of Canada in the 1997 federal election (Windsor—St. Clair), finishing fifth with 357 votes. In 1999, he ran for the Ontario Green Party in Windsor, finishing fourth with 420 votes (1.13%) against Liberal incumbent Sandra Pupatello. A newspaper at the time listed him as a communications instructor at the University of Windsor. He described himself as a “Blue Green”—fiscally conservative and socially liberal. He later worked as Press Manager and Head Graphic Designer for the University of Detroit Mercy Press (2001–2004), founded Atomic Quill Media, teaches English at Detroit Mercy, and has published two books; he also runs his own website.