Editing Toby Barrett

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Toby Barrett
| image         = 2018-10-31 Members’ Statements Toby Barrett (cropped).png
| honorific-suffix       = 
| office1 = [[Executive Council of Ontario|Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs]]<br>(Agriculture and Food){{efn|Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture and Food (2002–2003)}}
| term_start2 = April 25, 2002
| term_end2 = September 2, 2003
| minister2 = [[Helen Johns]]

| term_start1 = June 26, 2019
| term_end1 = May 3, 2022
| minister1 = [[Ernie Hardeman]]

| parliament3   = Ontario Provincial
| term_start3   = June 8, 1995
| term_end3     = May 3, 2022
| predecessor3  = [[Norm Jamison]]
| successor3    = [[Bobbi Ann Brady]]
| riding3 = [[Haldimand—Norfolk (provincial electoral district)|Haldimand—Norfolk]]{{efn|Member of the [[Ontario Provincial Parliament]] for [[Norfolk (provincial electoral district)|Norfolk]] (1995-1999)}}
| party         = [[Ontario Progressive Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]  
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1945|11|3}}
| birth_place   = [[Port Dover]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| residence     =
| occupation    = Business administrator
| alma_mater = [[University of Guelph]]
}}
'''Theobald Butler "Toby" Barrett'''<ref>{{cite tweet |user=ONPARLeducation|number=1547261235305058304|date=13 July 2022 |title=Within the halls of the Legislature are walls that contain the names of every Member of Provincial Parliament elected to Ontario's Legislature since 1867. The names for the 42nd Parliament were recently added. For the first time a Member's name was inscribed in Oji-Cree syllabics }}</ref>   is a former [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Progressive Conservative]] member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] representing the district of [[Haldimand—Norfolk (provincial electoral district)|Haldimand—Norfolk]] for the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Progressive Conservative Party]] from 1995 until 2022.

==Background==
Barrett was born in [[Port Dover, Ontario]] in 1945.<ref name="parl">{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide 2005 |year=2005 |last=O'Handley |first=Kathryn |publisher=Gale Canada |isbn=1-4144-0141-8}}</ref> His grandfather was [[Theobald Butler Barrett]], Member of the [[Parliament of Canada|Canadian Parliament]] for [[Norfolk (electoral district)|Norfolk]] from 1945 to 1949.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Stephen |title=Barrett's local roots ran deep |url=https://haliburtonecho.ca/barrett-s-local-roots-ran-deep/ |website=Haliburton Echo |date=14 March 2017 |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> Barrett received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[University of Guelph]] in 1968, and a [[Master of Science]] degree from the [[Ontario Agricultural College]] in 1974.  He later worked as a teacher of High School agriculture, and has been a partner in Farmleigh Farms since 1980. He is a past president of the Norfolk Farm Safety Association, and a member of the Norfolk Federation of Agriculture.

==Politics==
He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the [[1995 Ontario general election|provincial election of 1995]], defeating [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]] Rudy Stickl and incumbent [[New Democratic Party of Ontario|New Democrat]] [[Norm Jamison]] in the riding of [[Norfolk (provincial electoral district)|Norfolk]].<ref name="1995 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215103637/https://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=norfolk&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |access-date=2014-03-02 }}</ref> He was re-elected in 1999 in the redistributed riding of Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant.<ref name="1999 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215103643/https://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 3, 1999 |access-date=2014-03-02 }}</ref>  In 2003 he was re-elected again defeating Liberal candidate Rob Esselment by about 3,000 votes.<ref name="2003 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/2003_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=38&rec=0&district=Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140803112413/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/2003_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=38&rec=0&district=Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 2, 2003 |access-date=2014-03-02 }}</ref>

Barrett supported [[Jim Flaherty]]'s unsuccessful bid to succeed [[Ernie Eves]] as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004.

In the [[2007 Ontario general election]], Barrett was easily re-elected, defeating Liberal candidate Lorraine Bergstrand by 26,100 votes to 9,500 votes in the newly redrawn riding of Haldimand-Norfolk.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/ontariovotes2007/riding/028 |title=Haldimand - Norfolk |work=Ontario Votes 2007 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=2010-02-07}}</ref> He was re-elected in the [[2011 Ontario general election|2011]] and [[2014 Ontario general election|2014]] elections.<ref name="2011 results">{{cite web |url=http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/7849B894-4C4F-490E-9E8C-271BCF0C0D4D/5712/SummaryofvalidvotescastforeacndGE2011.pdf |title=Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 6, 2011 |access-date=2014-03-02 |page=6 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330163815/http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/7849B894-4C4F-490E-9E8C-271BCF0C0D4D/5712/SummaryofvalidvotescastforeacndGE2011.pdf |archive-date=March 30, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="2014 results">{{cite web |title=General Election by District: Haldimand-Norfolk |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 12, 2014 |url=http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/general-election-district-results.aspx?d=028 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923153856/http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/general-election-district-results.aspx?d=028 |archive-date=September 23, 2014 }}</ref>

Barrett served as the Parliamentary Assistant to the [[Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry|Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry]] under Premier [[Doug Ford]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Premier Ford Announces Parliamentary Assistant Assignments as Part of Ontario's Government for the People |url=https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2018/06/premier-ford-announces-parliamentary-assistant-assignments-as-part-of-ontarios-government-for-the-pe.html |access-date=5 July 2018 |agency=Office of the Premier |date=29 June 2018}}</ref>

Barrett did not run in the 2022 election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Long-time Haldimand-Norfolk MPP says he won't run again |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/toby-barrett-1.6424626 |access-date=2 June 2022 |agency=CBC News |date=20 April 2022}}</ref> When he announced his retirement, his longtime executive assistant [[Bobbi Ann Brady]] planned to run for the nomination to replace him as the PC candidate, but after the party's central office directly appointed [[Haldimand County]] mayor Ken Hewitt as its new candidate without consulting the local electoral district association,<ref>{{Cite web|first=J.P.|last=Antonacci|url=https://www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-news/slap-in-the-face-to-voters|title='Slap in the face to voters'|website=[[Simcoe Reformer]]|date=May 25, 2022|access-date=June 4, 2022}}</ref> Brady opted to run against Hewitt as an independent, with Barrett's endorsement and participation in her campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Vincent|last=Ball|url=https://www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-news/brady-enters-provincial-race|title=Brady enters provincial election race|website=[[Simcoe Reformer]]|date=April 27, 2022|access-date=June 4, 2022}}</ref> Brady ultimately won the election, and was the only independent to win a seat.

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=toby-barrett}}

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[[Category:Ontario Agricultural College alumni]]
[[Category:People from Norfolk County, Ontario]]
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[[Category:University of Guelph alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]
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