Kimble F. Ainslie is a right-wing politician, public policy analyst, pollster, author and activist, originally based in Ontario, Canada.

Ainslie has a PhD in Political Science from York University, as well as degrees from the University of Western Ontario and Queen's University.

He was the Southwestern Ontario organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the early 1990s, but left in 1993 to form the Reform Association of Ontario. He later criticized the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris as being overly centrist, pragmatic and bureaucratic.

He became involved in the Reform Party of Canada starting in 1993 by carrying out polling for the federal party. Previously, he had polled for federal and provincial Tories from 1985. He attempted to establish an official provincial wing of federal Reform in 1994 as co-founder of Reform Ontario with Reg Gosse. When he discovered he was unable to use the "Reform Party" name, he established the Reform Association of Ontario.

Ainslie has alleged that Mike Harris and federal Reform Party leader Preston Manning arranged a secret deal in 1994, wherein Manning agreed not to create a provincial Reform Party of Ontario and so split the right-wing vote with Harris's Tories. In return, some federal Reform supporters were allowed to run provincially as Progressive Conservatives. Ainslie opposed this arrangement, and created the Reform Association to run candidates in the 1995 election.

The Reform Association ran a number candidates in London and in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Ainslie campaigned in the riding of Huron , but finished a distant fifth place with only 207 votes. He later moved to the United States of America, and worked on the presidential campaign of Ross Perot.

He has subsequently acted as a public policy analyst for the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee FL, the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and most recently as president of Nordex Research. Ainslie has also worked for the Fraser Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and was an occasional editorial writer for the National Post in 2002. He has also written on small business and venture capital policy in Canada, and on Canadian urban transportation, medical transportation and privatization.

Ainslie is also the Entitlements Policy Analyist for the Cato Institute. He has written more than 75 articles on business and government, American workforce policy, welfare reform and social policy, charter schools and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Some of Ainslie's articles (including one criticizing federal benefits to single mothers) have been published online by Fox News.[1] He has also written for CBS.com, the Independent Review and LondonFog.blogspot, and is a frequent commentator on talk radio in London, Ontario.

Ainslie has recently completed a manuscript arguing that Canada's policy of state outreach between 1943 and 2000 was a failure.