Rose-Marie Ur

In the spring of 2005, Rose-Marie announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2006 federal election.

Ur faced a difficult re-election in the federal election of 2004, defeating Bev Shipley of the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada by only 164 votes. Shipley could have requested a recount, but declined.

Ur was one of the most socially conservative members of the Liberal caucus, strongly opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage. She was also an opponent of the federal gun registry, and sought to eliminate the program in late 2004. Ur was never appointed as a parliamentary secretary.

She was first elected to parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating her nearest opponent by almost 11,000 votes in the old riding of Lambton—Middlesex. She was re-elected by similarly large pluralities in Lambton—Kent—Middlesex in the elections of 1997 and 2000.

Ur was educated at the Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, receiving certification as a registered nurse assistant in 1964. She practised in this field from 1963 to 1966, then left to work as a farmer until 1990. She also worked as a constituency assistant to provincial Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Doug Reycraft from 1986 to 1988, and federal Member of Parliament (MP) Ralph Ferguson from 1988 to 1993. Ur is a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.

Rose-Marie Margaret Ur (born July 28, 1946 in Glencoe, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 until 2005 and, in her final term in office, represented the riding of Middlesex—Kent—Lambton for the Liberal Party.