Nolan Quinn (born June 3, 1983) is a Canadian politician who is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and of the Ford ministry, the Progressive Conservative Party cabinet of the Government of Ontario currently in office.
Background Quinn described himself as a local businessman who owns Cornwall’s Dairy Queen when he first sought electoral office in 2022.
Political career The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario's nomination for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry became open in 2022 upon the retirement of three-term incumbent MPP Jim McDonell. Quinn defeated South Stormont councillor Andrew Guindon in the nomination contest held in March 2022 and won the seat in the subsequent general election.
Quinn was one of five MPPs elevated into the Ford Ministry in a major cabinet shuffle in June 2024. He entered cabinet as a minister without portfolio, and was assigned to be Associate Minister of Forestry under natural resource minister Graydon Smith.
After less than two months as a junior minister, Quinn was given a significant promotion when cabinet veteran Todd Smith resigned from the ministry and from the legislature. Despite the Progressive Conservative Party holding all but one seat between Greater Toronto and the National Capital Region, Smith's resignation reduced the number of cabinet members from Eastern Ontario down to two. In the ensuring cabinet shuffle in August 2024, Quinn was appointed Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security, helming the ministry with the fourth largest budget in the Ontario government.
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