Harold Neufeld

Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Use Canadian English Template:Infobox officeholder Harold John Neufeld (October 10, 1927 – July 12, 2025)<ref>https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-331704/NEUFELD_HAROLD</ref> was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993,<ref name=members/><ref name=menn>Template:Cite book</ref> and a cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1992.<ref name=members>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Neufeld began a public practice as a chartered accountant in 1954, and was a member of the Chartered Accountants of Manitoba.

He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1986 provincial election as a Progressive Conservative, losing to incumbent New Democrat Vic Schroeder by 527 votes in the north-end Winnipeg riding of Rossmere. In the 1988 election, with NDP support falling throughout the province, he was able to defeat Schroeder by 526 votes in a rematch.<ref name=votes>Template:Cite news</ref>

Neufeld was appointed Minister of Energy and Mines with responsibility for the Manitoba Hydro Act<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Seniors on May 9, 1988. He was relieved of the latter responsibility on April 21, 1989.<ref name=members/> He was re-elected by an increased margin in the 1990 provincial election.<ref name=votes/>

Neufeld stepped down from his cabinet position on January 14, 1992, and resigned from the legislature on May 12, 1993.<ref name=members/> There are suggestions that Neufeld resigned as a matter of principle, disturbed by the dubious methods used by the Filmon government to conceal its deficit spending.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A lifelong Mennonite,<ref name=menn/> Neufeld joined the executive of Menno Simons College and became chair of the Menno Simons College Foundation after his retirement from the legislature.