Bart Maves (born October 30, 1964 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Regional Councillor representing Niagara Falls for the 2010-2014 term and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003.
Before running for office himself, Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993. He also worked as a planning secretariat for Alberta Education.
Maves was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal Marg Germano and incumbent New Democrat Margaret Harrington in the riding of Niagara Falls. In 1997, he was appointed as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Labour.
In the provincial election of 1999, Maves was re-elected by about 1,500 votes over Liberal candidate Selina Volpatti. He held other parliamentary assistant positions in the parliament which followed, but was not appointed to cabinet. In 2002, he supported Jim Flaherty's unsuccessful bid to replace Mike Harris as party leader. In early 2003, he attended a local "Rally For America" held in support of the invasion of Iraq.[1]
In the 2003 provincial election, Maves lost to Liberal Kim Craitor by over 3,000 votes. He was the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario's candidate for the Niagara Falls riding again in the 2007 provincial election but lost again to Craitor.
In the 2010 municipal election, Maves ran for and was elected as one of the three regional councillors representing Niagara Falls on the Niagara Regional Council. Maves topped the polls, winning 13,695 votes, more than any other candidate for any municipal office in Niagara Falls. His term will run from December 1, 2010, through November 30, 2014. Ironically, elected alongside Maves as a regional councillor was Selina Volpatti, who had been his Liberal opponent during the 1999 provincial general election.
This Bart Maves is a nephew of the W. Bart Maves who was elected to as a Niagara Falls City Councillor in 2006 and re-elected in 2010.