Jake Epp
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Arthur Jacob (Jake) Epp (born September 1 1939) is an executive and former Canadian politician.
Born into a Mennonite family in Manitoba, Jake Epp was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1972 election.
After the 1979 election, he served in the short-lived Cabinet of Joe Clark as Minister of Indian and Northern Development. He retained his seat in the 1980 election despite the defeat of the Clark government and returned to the Opposition bench.
When Brian Mulroney led the Conservatives back to power in the 1984 election, he appointed Epp as his Minister of National Health and Welfare. In 1989, Epp became Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources.
Epp retired at the 1993 election, and returned to private life. From 1993 until 2000, he was Senior Vice President and Vice President at TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.
Epp was one of the Tories who joined the Canadian Alliance when it was created in an attempt to attract Progressive Conservatives to the former Reform Party of Canada.
In 2003, the Ontario Liberal Party government of Dalton McGuinty appointed Epp to a panel headed by John Manley to examine the future role of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the province’s electricity market, examine its corporate and management structure, and decide whether the public utility should proceed with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering nuclear power plant. In 2004, the McGuinty government made Epp Chairman of the Board of OPG.