[2] The daughter of Allen Glover, she grew up in Belleville Ontario and began her career at the municipal level, serving as a councillor in the town of Selkirk.
[3] In early 1988, Pawley's government was unexpectedly defeated when disgruntled backbencher Jim Walding voted against his party's annual budget in an evenly divided legislature.
[3] The Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in this election, and Charles spent the next two years in the official opposition.
Like many of her Liberal colleagues, she was defeated in the 1990 election[2] amid a general decline in support for her party (once again, she placed third behind the NDP and Progressive Conservative candidates).
[3] Gwen moved back to Ontario and built one of the first social enterprises, Pivotal Services of London, winning the Peter F. Drucker Award for Innovation.