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BackgroundEdit
Sterling attended Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, and worked as a lawyer and engineer before entering public life. He was a partner in the Sterling & Young law firm, and in 1974 became president of the Manotick Home & School Association.
PoliticsEdit
Davis governmentEdit
Sterling ran unsuccessfully for a Progressive Conservative nomination in 1971, at age 29.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He tried again, successfully, in 1977, and was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election in the safe eastern Ontario riding of Grenville—Carleton.<ref name="1977 results">Template:Cite news</ref> He became parliamentary assistant to the Attorney General in 1978, but was not appointed to the cabinet of Bill Davis in his first term as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sterling was returned without difficulty in the 1981 election,<ref name="1981 Election Results">Template:Cite news</ref> and served as a minister without portfolio from April 10, 1981 to February 13, 1982.<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed as Provincial Secretary for Justice on February 13, 1982.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="1982DavisCabinet">Template:Cite news</ref> On July 6, 1983, he was named as Provincial Secretary for Resource Development.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="1983DavisCabinet">Template:Cite news</ref> Sterling, who represents a predominantly rural and Protestant region of Ontario, disagreed with the Davis government's decision to fully fund Ontario's Catholic school system and insisted that his protest be entered into the official minutes of the executive council. Sterling initially supported Dennis Timbrell to replace Davis as party leader, but crossed to Frank Miller on the last ballot after Timbrell was eliminated.
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In oppositionEdit
The Progressive Conservatives lost power following the 1985 election, although Sterling had no difficulty being re-elected in his own riding.<ref name="1985 results">Template:Cite news</ref> There was another Progressive Conservative leadership convention in late 1985. On this occasion, Sterling broke with Timbrell (describing the latter's post-election opposition to Catholic school funding as an opportunistic volte-face), and supported Larry Grossman.
In the Liberal landslide of 1987, however, he was only able to defeat Liberal candidate Roly Armitage by about 500 votes in the redistributed riding of Carleton.<ref name="1987 results">Template:Cite news</ref>
Sterling was re-elected in the provincial elections of 1990.<ref name="1990 results">Template:Cite news</ref> During his first stint in opposition, Sterling held numerous shadow cabinet portfolios such as critic for: the Solicitor General of Ontario; the Management Board of Cabinet; Economics, Industry, Trade and Technology; Intergovernmental Affairs; and Treasury and Economics and Revenue.<ref name=":0" />
Harris governmentEdit
In the 1995 election he was re-elected by almost 20,000 votes.<ref name="1995 results">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Progressive Conservatives formed government under Mike Harris in 1995, and Sterling was appointed Minister of Small Business and Consumer Services on June 26 of that year.<ref name="1995HarrisCab">Template:Cite news</ref> On August 16, 1996, he was promoted to Minister of Environment and Energy. On October 7, 1997, he became Government House Leader and was given the re-titled post of Minister of the Environment.<ref name=":0" /> As Minister of the Environment, Sterling oversaw cuts of nearly 50% to the ministry's budget and privatized provincial water testing labs, which an inquiry found contributed to the Walkerton E. coli outbreak the year after he left the portfolio. During the public inquiry, Sterling testified he had not read the province's drinking water rules and that drinking water was not a major priority for the Harris government. He also took responsibility for failing to read a warning from the health minister about shortfalls in the water-testing system.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>
In the provincial election of 1999, Sterling was returned for the restructured riding of Lanark-Carleton.<ref name="1999 results">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was appointed Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Government House Leader on June 17, 1999.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="1999HarrisCab">Template:Cite news</ref> Following a cabinet shuffle on February 8, 2001, he became Minister of Consumer and Business Services; he also served as Minister of Correctional Services from December 5, 2000 to March 8, 2001.<ref name=":0" />
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Eves governmentEdit
On April 15, 2002, after Ernie Eves replaced Mike Harris as Premier, Sterling was appointed Minister of Transportation.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="2002EvesCabinet">Template:Cite news</ref> After a cabinet shuffle on February 25, 2003, he was promoted to the position of Attorney General, with responsibility for Native Affairs.<ref name=":0" />
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In opposition (2nd time)Edit
The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 2003 provincial election, although Sterling was able to defeat Liberal Marianne Wilkinson by about 6,000 votes.<ref name="2003 results">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=feelgreat>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the 2004 leadership race, Sterling supported Jim Flaherty's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party.
In 2004, Sterling opposed parts of the legislation to create the GTA-area Greenbelt that did not allow easily removing protected status from designated land, and voted against the bill in 2005.<ref name=":1" />
Lanark-Carleton was redistributed prior to the 2007 provincial election, and Sterling ran for re-election in the newly created riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, which had been created out of the eastern two-thirds of his old riding. He won by a convincing margin, defeating Liberal Megan Cornell by over 7,000 votes.<ref name="2007 results">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the 2009 leadership race, Sterling supported the successful candidacy of Tim Hudak. However, the membership of his riding association supported rural-rights candidate Randy Hillier; Carleton-Mississippi Mills was one of only three ridings in the province where Hillier won a first-ballot victory.
In March 2011, Sterling was defeated in the race for his riding’s PC nomination for the 2011 Ontario general election by Jack MacLaren, the former president of the Ontario Landowners Association, and left politics upon his term running out.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Sterling held multiple shadow cabinet portfolios during his second stint in opposition, such as critic for Democratic Renewal, critic for Health Promotion, critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, and Finance critic. He also served as the chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts during this period.<ref name=":0" />
After politicsEdit
In April 2021, Sterling was appointed by Premier Doug Ford as chair of the Greenbelt Council, replacing David Crombie, who resigned along with six other council members in December 2020 over Ford's intention to reduce the power of conservation authorities. Sterling will be in charge of Ford's plan to expand the Greenbelt, which was announced after public blowback from Crombie's resignation.<ref name=":1" />
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