John L. Parker (born c1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. He is now Toronto city councillor for Ward 26 Don Valley West.

Parker graduated from the University of Toronto, then Osgoode Hall Law School in 1980, and is a lawyer. He was also a founding member of the board of the Bessborough Child Care Centre and is a member of the Leaside United Church. John is a long time volunteer in his community, coaching baseball, soccer and hockey. He has served on the Board of the Leaside Hockey Rink and chaired the East York Committee of Adjustment. In 2001, he helped found the Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians. The Association's objectives include offering experience in support of parliamentary democracy in a non-partisan way and to foster good relations between current members. John currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy, a non-partisan, charitable organization that facilitates education, discussion and debate about Canada’s parliamentary democracy.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating incumbent New Democrat Gary Malkowski by about 3,000 votes in the riding of York East. He served in Mike Harris's government for the next four years. During that time he was parliamentary assistant to Native Affairs.

In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. This change resulted in some sitting MPPs having to compete against one another in the 1999 provincial election. Parker ran against Liberal Mike Colle in the newly-created riding of Eglinton—Lawrence, and was defeated.

John Parker was elected as the City Councillor for Toronto's Ward 26 in November 2006.

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• Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy
• City of Toronto Councillor Profile
• Legislative Assembly of Ontario biography
• Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians