Radu Filipescu imposed a fine of $250 for transgressors. In August 2010, the name of the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport was changed to include sports as part of the Ministry's name to reflect the fact that sport was a key component of her Ministerial responsibilities. She was the lead Minister and a key part of the team led by Premier Dalton McGuinty in Ontario's successful bid for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. Best was re-elected 2011. The result was significant because it made her the first Black / African-Canadian woman to be re-elected to 	Margarett Best
20696161	the Provincial Legislature in the Province of Ontario. Following the election, she was appointed as Minister of Consumer Services by Dalton McGuinty. In her capacity as Minister of Consumer Services, she introduced Bill 82, The Wireless Services Agreements Act, 2012, an Act to strengthen consumer protection with respect to consumer agreements relating to wireless services accessed from a cellular phone, smart phone or any other similar mobile device. The Bill died when Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued the Ontario Legislature in October 2012. Best also did extensive work on reform of the Condominium Act, including developing the framework for legislative reform 	Margarett Best
20696162	of the Act and led the consultation process. She worked on the amendments to the Not for Profit Business Corporations Act; and the reform of the Delegated Administrative Authorities Act, which was introduced as part of the 2012 Budget Bill. She introduced several consumer protection initiatives. She was a member of the Health Education and Social Policy Committee and the Legislation and Regulation Committee of the 39th and 40th Parliament of Ontario, and she sat on the Poverty Reduction Committee of the 39th Parliament of Ontario. In February 2013, she was appointed as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Education 	Margarett Best
20696163	by the new premier Kathleen Wynne. Her exclusion from Wynne's first cabinet was initially reported as a demotion for political reasons, although it was later revealed that Best had asked to have her duties reduced for undisclosed health reasons. On June 27, 2013, she announced her resignation as a MPP. Electoral record. Margarett Best Margarett R. Best is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2013 who represented the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty. Background. Best	Margarett Best
20696164	Merv Wellington Merv Wellington Mervyn Langlois Wellington (6 October 1940 – 7 September 2003) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Early life and family. Wellington was born in Inglewood in 1940, and received his education at New Plymouth Boys' High School and the University of Auckland. He married Elizabeth Helen Bean in 1961 and the couple had three daughters. After a period as a social welfare worker between 1959 and 1961, Wellington became a school teacher and taught at St Stephen's School, Pukekohe High School and Ruapehu College. He was also a Methodist lay preacher and served as a 	Merv Wellington
20696165	Pukekohe borough councillor. Member of Parliament. He represented the Manurewa electorate from 1975 to 1978, and then the Papakura electorate from 1978 to 1990, when he retired. Wellington served as a Cabinet minister, being the Minister of Education from 13 December 1978 to 26 July 1984. During his tenure as Education Minister, he regularly courted controversy with teacher unions on various issues. Wellington was a Muldoon loyalist, and was demoted after National's 1984 election defeat. Honours and awards. In 1977, Wellington was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1990 he received the New Zealand 1990 	Merv Wellington
20696166	Commemoration Medal. In the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services. Death. Wellington died in 2003, following a long illness. Merv Wellington Mervyn Langlois Wellington (6 October 1940 – 7 September 2003) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Early life and family. Wellington was born in Inglewood in 1940, and received his education at New Plymouth Boys' High School and the University of Auckland. He married Elizabeth Helen Bean in 1961 and the couple had three daughters. After a period as a social welfare worker between 	Merv Wellington
20696167	Radu Filipescu Radu Filipescu Radu Filipescu (born December 26, 1955) is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident. Radu Filipescu's maternal uncle, Victor Groza, is the brother of Petru Groza, the first Communist Prime Minister of Romania. During Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime, Filipescu was imprisoned for several years for propaganda against the socialist order". Early life. Filipescu was born on December 26, 1955 in Târgu Mureș, the youngest son of Zorel Filipescu and Carmelita-Ileana Filipescu. From 1974 to 1979, he studied electronics at Politehnica University of Bucharest. He worked at the former Automatica factory in Bucharest until his arrest in 1983 . Dissident activity before 1989. Filipescu believed Romanians were dissatisfied with Ceaușescu's leadership and he attempted to organize protests in response. Between December 1982 and May 1983, he printed leaflets and put them in Bucharest mailboxes, calling for a protest at the Palace Square in Bucharest. On May 7, 1983, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He served almost three years at the Rahova, Jilava, and Aiud prisons. In December 1984, he was named Amnesty International's Prisoner of the Month. With his family acknowledging his case abroad, international pressure from several non-governmental organizations (including  the French Human Rights League, International Society for Human Rights, and the Swiss organization "Le Pavé"), and the efforts of politicians from Western Europe and the United States, Filipescu was released from prison on April 18, 1986. In 1987, after attempting to organize a referendum against Ceauşescu's leadership, he was arrested on December 12 and was interrogated and beaten by Securitate officers. After a quick response from human rights organizations and radio broadcasters, including Radio Free Europe, the BBC, RFI, Deutsche Welle, and Voice of America, he was released on December 22, 1987, without an indictment. He was arrested  a third time on December 22, 1989, but was released that same day at noon. In May 1988, Filipescu and other political dissidents tried to start a free trade union, called "Libertatea" (Freedom). However, Securitate threats against those who tried to join squelched popular support. Civic activity after 1989. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Radu Filipescu founded the Group for Social Dialogue and was elected president in 1998. He is a founding member of APADOR-CH, and founder and president of the Association of Revolutionaries without Privileges. Later life. Radu Filipescu patented the "Parrot Clip" (European patent 0563234, United  States patent 5,457,392), an intended replacement to the alligator clip. It was awarded the gold medal at the 1991 Eureka World Fair of Inventions in Brussels. He founded the company "Parrot Invent SRL" in 1992. Personal life. In 1988, Radu married Daniela Filipescu, a Romanian anesthesiologist at the C.C. Iliescu Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases in Bucharest. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Society of Anesthesiology and is the Deputy General Secretary of the Romanian Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care. They have one son, Radu-Zorel Filipescu, who was born on February 2, 1998