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Phil McNeely is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of OttawaOrléans for the Ontario Liberal Party.
McNeely was born in Cumberland, Ontario (now part of the City of Ottawa) and is fluently bilingual in French and English. He was educated at Lisgar Collegiate and McGill University, earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the latter. He later earned the equivalent of a Master's Degree in Engineering from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. Before entering politics, he was the CEO of McNeely Engineering, a firm which operated in the Ottawa region. He sold this firm in 1997, claiming it had suffering under provincial cutbacks to infrastructure spending.
In 2000, McNeely was elected as a municipal councillor for the Cumberland district of the amalgamated City of Ottawa, defeating incumbent Robert van den Ham. In 2002, he was responsible for coordinating activities in the Hay West project, in which hay from eastern Canada was shipped to the drought-stricken west. He was also active in opposing the creation of a hog farm in his constituency.
In the provincial election of 2003, he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Brian Coburn in Ottawa--Orleans by about 4500 votes. He was named a Government Whip on October 23, 2003.
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