Harold Neufeld
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:BLP sources Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Harold Neufeld (born October 10, 1927) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993,[1][2] and a cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1992.[1]
Career
Neufeld began a public practice as a Chartered Accountant in 1954, and was a member of the Chartered Accountants of Manitoba.
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1986 provincial election as a Progressive Conservative, losing to incumbent New Democrat Vic Schroeder by 527 votes in the north-end Winnipeg riding of Rossmere. In the 1988 election, with NDP support falling throughout the province, he was able to defeat Schroeder by 526 votes in a rematch.[3]
Neufeld was appointed Minister of Energy and Mines with responsibility for the Manitoba Hydro Act[4] and Seniors on May 9, 1988. He was relieved of the latter responsibility on April 21, 1989.[1] He was re-elected by an increased margin in the 1990 provincial election.[3]
Neufeld stepped down from his cabinet position on January 14, 1992, and resigned from the legislature on May 12, 1993.[1] There are suggestions that Neufeld resigned as a matter of principle, disturbed by the dubious methods used by the Filmon government to conceal its deficit spending.[5]
A lifelong Mennonite,[2] Neufeld joined the executive of Menno Simons College and became chair of the Menno Simons College Foundation after his retirement from the legislature.
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- 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba