Editing Jim Flaherty (section)

=== Cabinet ===
He was named [[Ministry of Labour (Ontario)|Minister of Labour]] in the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]] of [[List of Ontario Premiers|Premier]] [[Mike Harris]] on October 10, 1997, and kept this position until after the [[1999 Ontario general election|1999 election]]. He also served as interim [[Solicitor General of Ontario|Solicitor General]] and [[Ministry of Correctional Services|Minister of Correctional Services]] from April 27 to July 27, 1998.<ref name="20years=trinh" />

Flaherty was re-elected in the [[1999 Ontario general election|1999 election]] in the redistributed riding of Whitby–Ajax, and was named [[Attorney General of Ontario|Attorney General]] with responsibility for [[Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (Ontario)|Native Affairs]] on June 17, 1999. On February 8, 2001, he was appointed [[Ministry of Finance (Ontario)|Minister of Finance]] and [[Deputy Premier of Ontario|Deputy Premier]]. He was a key promoter of tax credits for parents sending their children to private and denominational schools, which the Tories had campaigned against in 1999.<ref name="20years=trinh" /> In June 2001, Flaherty was evicted from his constituency office in a theatrical action by [[Ontario Coalition Against Poverty]] which aimed to bring home the effects of his policies.<ref name="Deed">{{cite journal |last1=Coulter |first1=Kendra |title=Solidarity in Deed: Poor People's Organizations, Unions, and the Politics of Antipoverty Work in Ontario |journal=Anthropology of Work Review |date=December 2012 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=101–112 |doi=10.1111/j.1548-1417.2012.01083.x}}</ref>