Everything about Nancy Ruth totally explained
Nancy Ruth (born
January 6,
1942 in
Toronto, Ontario) is a
Canadian senator from
Ontario. She was appointed to the senate by
Prime Minister Paul Martin on
March 24,
2005. While initially appointed as a
Progressive Conservative, on
March 28,
2006 she joined the
Conservative caucus. She is Canada's first
openly lesbian senator.
Before being appointed to the Senate, Ruth was a social activist and philanthropist. She founded several women's organizations in Canada, including the
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, the
Canadian Women's Foundation and a
women's studies chair at
Mount Saint Vincent University. She has also been a noted benefactor of hospitals and art galleries throughout Canada, and was named a member of the
Order of Canada in
1994. She has long battled for women's constitutional rights, and opposed the
Charlottetown Accord from this position in
1992. She is also a vocal opponent of
pornography. Her support for tougher child pornography laws made her a controversial figure amongst other
gay rights activists, who saw the legislation as dangerously ambiguous in its definitions and broad in scope.
She was born
Nancy Ruth (Rowell) Jackman, and is the sister of former
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Hal Jackman, the daughter of former
Member of Parliament Harry Jackman and the granddaughter of former MP and
Ontario Liberal Party leader
Newton Rowell. She changed her name in the mid-1990s, for reasons that have never been publicly clarified.
A
Red Tory, Nancy Ruth campaigned for the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario on two occasions in the early 1990s, when she was known as Nancy Jackman. The first was in the
1990 provincial election, when she lost to
New Democratic Party candidate
Zanana Akande by fewer than 1,000 votes in the
riding of
St. Andrew—St. Patrick. On
April 1,
1993, she lost to
Liberal Tim Murphy by over 2,000 votes in a
by-election held in
St. George—St. David.
See also
List of Ontario senators.
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