Jack Murta
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Jack Burnett Murta, Template:Post-nominals (born May 13, 1943) is a former Canadian politician.
Born in Carman, Manitoba, the son of John James Murta and Jean (Burnett) Murta, he graduated from the Diploma course in Agriculture at the University of Manitoba in 1964.
In 1970, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative in a by-election for the riding of Lisgar following the death of the previous incumbent, George Muir. He was re-elected in 1972, 1974, 1979, 1980, and 1984.
He was Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board in the short lived government of Joe Clark in 1979. In the Brian Mulroney government he was Minister of State (Multiculturalism) from 1984 to 1985 and Minister of State (Tourism) from 1985 to 1986.
Electoral record
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References
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- Jack Murta – Parliament of Canada biography
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- 1943 births
- Living people
- Canadian Protestants
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
- People from Carman, Manitoba
- Members of the 24th Canadian Ministry
- 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada