Member of Provincial Parliament
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Bob Delaney is western Mississauga's MPP
Bob Delaney is the Member of Provincial Parliament serving the western Mississauga neighbourhoods of Lisgar, Meadowvale and Streetsville. He was re-elected for his third term on October 6, 2011. Bob previously won the elections of October 10, 2007 and October 2, 2003. Bob lives in the Churchill Meadows neighbourhood of Mississauga. He has been a resident of Mississauga for 26 years.
Bob was born and raised in Montreal, and has also lived and worked in Metro Toronto and in Vancouver. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in physics from Concordia University in Montreal. He earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He has also received his accreditation from the Canadian Public Relations Society.
At the Legislature, Bob serves as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education. He has previously been a Parliamentary Assistant to: the Minister of Revenue; the Minister of Tourism; the Minister of Research and Innovation and the Ontario Seniors Secretariat. Bob has served on, or chaired, four of the government's standing committees: Justice Policy; Regulations and Private Bills; Estimates; and the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly. Bob sits on the Health, Education and Social Policy Cabinet Committee within the government caucus.
In the private sector prior to his election, Bob worked in corporate communications, consulting and marketing roles. Bob became an accomplished web developer in the 1990s, and keeps his hand in the art of .Net coding with this web site. He is a co-author, with friend Sanjiv Purba of Mississauga, of the book High Value IT Consulting, published by Osborne McGraw Hill in March, 2003. As a consultant, he wrote and delivered the Professional Account Development program, aimed at teaching managerial, professional and technical people the skills needed for business development in knowledge-based businesses.
Bob taught evening courses in Business Statistics, Internet Marketing and Planning and Budgeting in the School of Business Studies in the Faculty of Continuing Education at Ryerson University in Toronto. He continues his personal interest in education, especially science and math education, as an MPP, with his visits to local elementary and high schools.
Bob Delaney has long taken a close personal interest in working with communities of new Canadians. He served on the Board of the Peel Multicultural Council in the 1990s, and as a volunteer with the Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services in Mississauga.
In his spare time, Bob is an accomplished photographer and writer. Bob still plays hockey, and is a lifelong goaltender. The 2011-12 hockey season is his 52nd year playing hockey. Bob plays for the Ontario Legislature's team, the Ontario Legiskaters, and frequently accepts invitations to play hockey with local teams and other groups.
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In touch with Bob
Bob Delaney and his cat, Obi-Wan, are frequent visitors to community events and seniors' homes.
In the game
After more than 50 years of playing hockey, Bob still manages between 45 and 55 games in goal per season, often accepting invitations for a pick-up game.