page_title: Jim Flaherty
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Jim Flaherty / Personal life and death
caption_attribution_description: Jim Flaherty's state funeral held at the St. James church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 16, 2014.
context_page_description: James Michael Flaherty, PC, MSC was a Canadian politician who served as Canada's federal Minister of Finance and a provincial Minister of Finance for Ontario. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party caucus and unsuccessfully sought the leadership of the provincial party on two occasions.
  Flaherty won the riding of Whitby—Oshawa in the federal election held January 23, 2006, as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada narrowly beating Liberal incumbent Judi Longfield. He was re-elected in 2008 and 2011. Flaherty's widow, Christine Elliott, is currently the Deputy Premier of Ontario.
context_section_description: Flaherty grew up in a Catholic family in Montreal, and was of part Irish descent. As a youth he was an avid hockey player and won a hockey scholarship to Princeton University.
  Those familiar with Flaherty's work as a lawyer noted his dogged determination and a strong work ethic. One colleague,  Hamilton lawyer John Soule said, "He is a driven person ... and certainly is prepared to do what is necessary in terms of time and hard work to achieve what he believes is right".  He assisted in several volunteer causes, including being the president of the Head Injury Association of Durham Region in Ontario.
  His wife, Christine Elliott, was the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for Oshawa–Whitby, east of Toronto and Deputy Leader of the Opposition until her resignation in August 2015. The couple lived in Whitby and have triplet sons John, Gaelen and Quinn, who were born in 1991. His son Galen, used to work for Doug Ford, then Etobicoke councillor.    Elliott and Flaherty have both championed issues surrounding children with disabilities; their son, John, has a disability.
  In January 2013, Flaherty announced he had bullous pemphigoid. He was treated with prednisone. Flaherty died on April 10, 2014, at his home in Ottawa after suffering a heart attack at the age of 64.
  A state funeral was held for Flaherty on April 16, 2014, at St. James Cathedral in Toronto.
caption: Media overlooking a crowd fronting the Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto during Flaherty's state funeral on 16 April 2014
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