Ted McMeekin, born and raised in Hamilton, has been a small business owner, college instructor, Hamilton city councillor, Mayor of the Town of Flamborough, MPP and is currently the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in the Ontario Government. In his current role, Ted is responsible for overseeing the province’s efforts to create safe and strong communities with abundant greenspace, thriving and prosperous economies, and a range of housing choices. In 2013, he received the Doctors Colloquium 'Political Award of Merit' from the Ontario Association of Professional Social Workers in 2013 for 'a lifetime of humanitarian service and political advocacy on behalf of Ontario's vulnerable'.

Throughout his career, Ted has been very involved in the community and he continuously volunteers for organizations at the local, national and international level with such organizations as the Mental Health Association, Operation Lifeline, and has been the President of the Hamilton – Burlington YMCA and the Hamilton-Wentworth Lung Association. For this, he has been awarded many honours including the Queen’s Silver and Gold Jubilee as well as Lifetime Achievement awards from both Wilfrid Laurier and McMaster University.

If you could go back in time, what 1 piece of advice would you give to yourself on the first day of College?

be bold...."those who say something can't be done are usually interrupted by someone doing it".

How has your education at Mohawk prepared and supported you throughout your career?

Jesus -- I'd have lots of questions

If you could sit down and have a conversation with anyone, alive or dead, who would it be? Why?

Mohawk helped me find a focus for the future and equipped me with a solid principled base to a social/public service career.

If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to? Why?

1968 and I would station myself in the Ambassador Hotel and try to stop the assassination of my hero mentor and the greatest political leader of all time -- the late great Senator Bobby Kennedy. He would have been the best President in US history.