Candidate Profile - Dan McCreary

-Restore Accountability, Transparency and Fairness

BrienneTorley
Oct.10/07

Dan McCreary has a passion for the County of Brant; it permeates every facet of his electoral initiatives. His passionate declarations range from improving healthcare to providing a better future for children, Dan McCreary the Conservative candidate for Brant riding has many strong initiatives he wants to see implemented.

Among the list he will strive to make our communities safer with effective gun control, by implementing a “tough and practical” approach. Having served as the Vice Chair on the Brantford Police Services Board, McCreary also wants to see increased enforcement on laws and greater resources for victims of crime.

Having served as Chair of Brant County’s Health Unit for the past two years McCreary also wants to see Brantford Healthcare providers benefit from federally sponsored initiatives and have guaranteed timely access in at least one of the primary areas of cancer care, hip and knee replacement, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, cataract surgery and primary care.

A better future for the children of Brant County is also very important to McCreary. He would like to see family and children-centred organizations opened. Current examples include St. Leonard’s Federal funded shelter which provides transitional housing and counselling services for teenage girls.

Under Premier Dalton McGuinty's leadership, Dan McCreary says that the County of Brant has lost over 1,000 jobs in manufacturing in the past year. He says that "now is the time for change."

Dan McCreary was born in Brantford where he was schooled until attending the University of Toronto and graduated in 1979. He lived in Toronto and Calgary until 1990 when he returned to Brantford where he operated a successful contract cleaning company. Having an emphasis placed on community involvement, McCreary has also been a member of the Brantford Heritage Committee, the Community Advisory Committee on Disability Issues and a City Council Delegate to the Brantford-Brant Chamber of Commerce. As well as serving on the Board of Directors of the Brant Community Care Access Centre.

With an interest in reporting the news McCreary also wrote for the City Beat political column and for the Brantford Expositor for five years.