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Otto Jelinek
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Otto John Jelinek, PC (born Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 20, 1940-) is a businessman and former figure skater and Canadian Politician.
Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War. He and his sister, Maria, became figure skaters and achieved prominence in 1962 when they won the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships that was held that year in Jelinek's birthplace of Prague. The pair had been warned not to return, but did so anyway. They were the first to perform lifts with several rotations, and also performed side-by-side double jumps.
After a time in business, Otto Jelinek entered politics and was elected in the 1972 election to the House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for High Park-Humber Valley in Metropolitan Toronto. He was re-elected in 1974. In 1979, he switched to the riding of Halton, where he ran and won in the 1979 federal election.
When the Tories formed government after the 1984 election, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed Jelinek to Cabinet as Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport, and the Minister responsible for Multiculturalism.
In 1988, he was named to Minister of Supply and Services, and later, Minister of National Revenue. Jelinek left politics after Mulroney retired, and did not run in the 1993 election.
In politics, Jelinek was considered a right-wing conservative, and a staunch anti-Communist.
In 1994, he moved to the Czech Republic, and became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche Central Europe, and Chairman and Managing Partner of the firm in the Czech Republic. Jelinek is also a chairman of the society Olympiad for Czech Republic, which leads the activities of Prague to become the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
| Preceded by: Walter Deakon, Liberal |
Members of Parliament from High Park—Humber Valley | Succeeded by: Riding abolished in 1976 |
| Preceded by: Frank Philbrook, Liberal |
Members of Parliament from Halton | Succeeded by: Riding abolished in 1987 |
| Preceded by: electoral district created in 1987 |
Members of Parliament from Oakville—Milton | Succeeded by: Bonnie Brown, Liberal |
(with Maria)
- World Championships - 3rd
- World Championships - 3rd
- Olympics - 4th
- World Championships - 2nd
- Canadian Championships - 1st
- Canadian Championships - 1st
- World Championships - 1st
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1923: Dorothy Jenkins / A.G. McClennan · 1925: Theresa Weld / Nathaniel Niles · 1927: Marion McDougall / Chauncey Bangs · 1929–1933: Constance Wilson-Samuel / Montgomery Wilson · 1935: Maribel Vinson / George Hill · 1937: Veronica Clarke / Ralph McCreath · 1939: Joan Tozzer / Bernard Fox · 1941: Eleanor O'Meara / Ralph McCreath · 1947: Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Distelmeyer · 1949–1951: Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy · 1953–1955: Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden · 1957–1959: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul · 1961: Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek · 1963: Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell · 1965: Vivan Joseph / Ronald Joseph · 1967–1969: Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman · 1971: JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley |
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