Who is the Premier of Ontario

Who is the Premier of Ontario

Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) is the Premier of Ontario .

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr. MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. The first was John Sandfield Macdonald, who served as the first premier of Ontario from 1867 to 1871.

McGuinty is generally regarded as a moderate fiscal conservative, with his first budget raising personal taxes and planning to eliminate the province's tax on the capital of corporations. He holds liberal views on social issues, supporting abortion rights and endorsing equal marriage for same-sex couples during the 2003 election. In early 2005, his government passed legislation confirming the legal status of same-sex marriage in Ontario.