Bill Grimmett
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William Lawrence Grimmett (born October 4, 1956 in Aurora, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.
Grimmett has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trent University (1978) and a law degree from the University of Toronto (1981). He worked as a lawyer in Port Carling from 1983 to 1995, and was a trustee on the Muskoka Board of Education from 1991 to 1995.
He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, outpolling Liberal Ken Black and incumbent New Democrat Dan Waters by about 10,000 votes in the riding of Muskoka—Georgian Bay. He served as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris's government for the next four years. In 1997, he oversaw public consultations on reforms to Ontario's Pension Benefits Act.
In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. This change meant that a number of sitting MPPs had to compete against one another for re-nomination and re-election. Grimmett returned to his Port Carling law practice after the 1999 provincial election, having chaired Ernie Eves' successful campaign in the newly-configured Parry Sound-Muskoka riding.
