Leslie O'Shaughnessy
Leslie O'Shaughnessy | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Cornwall, Ontario | |
| Assumed office December 1, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Kilger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Cornwall, Ontario |
Leslie O'Shaughnessy is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Cornwall, Ontario in the 2014 municipal election.[1]
Born in Cornwall, O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of Charlottenburg in the 1990s,[1] and ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Stormont—Dundas in the 1997 federal election. He later moved back to Cornwall, and was elected to Cornwall City Council in 2003.[1] He ran for mayor in the 2006 municipal election, but was not elected.[1] He ran again in the 2010 municipal election and was reelected as a councillor, but resigned his seat in 2012 citing concerns about the council's commitment to accountability and transparency.[2]
In the 2014 election, he defeated incumbent mayor Bob Kilger.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Cornwall chooses change". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 27, 2014.
- ^ "Cornwall votes: One more mayoral candidate as O'Shaughnessy makes it three". Cornwall Standard Freeholder, July 3, 2014.
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