Rick Nicholls

Rick Nicholls
Nicholls in 2011
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Chatham-Kent—Leamington
In office
June 7, 2018 – May 3, 2022
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byTrevor Jones
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Chatham-Kent—Essex
In office
October 6, 2011 – June 7, 2018
Preceded byPat Hoy
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Frederick Rumball Nicholls

(1950-10-11) October 11, 1950 (age 74)
Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada
Political partyOntario Party
Other political
affiliations
Progressive Conservative (2011–2021)
RelativesFrederick George Rumball (great-great-grandfather) Brooke Nicholls (daughter)
Alma mater

Frederick Rumball Nicholls[1] (born October 11, 1950) is a former Canadian politician who sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2011 to 2022. He represented the riding of Chatham-Kent—Leamington.

Nicholls was originally a member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party before he was removed by Doug Ford in 2021 due to refusing a vaccine.[2] In December 2021, he joined the Ontario Party, becoming its first and only member in the legislature until losing his seat in the 2022 election.

  1. ^ @ONPARLeducation (July 13, 2022). "Within the halls of the Legislature are walls that contain the names of every Member of Provincial Parliament elected to Ontario's Legislature since 1867. The names for the 42nd Parliament were recently added. For the first time a Member's name was inscribed in Oji-Cree syllabics" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "INTERVIEW: Ontario MPP Rick Nicholls speaks out on ejection from Ontario PC Party caucus". Rebel News. August 24, 2021. His own words in the video