- Bruce Crozier
Bruce Crozier is a
politician inOntario ,Canada . He is currently a member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario , representing the riding of Essex for theOntario Liberal Party .Crozier is a
Certified General Accountant . He worked for the H.J. Heinz Company for eleven years, and was the Vice-President of Finance and Secretary-Treasurer for Bennie Lumber and Building Materials Ltd.. He was also the National Director of theKinsman Club from 1975 to 1976, and is a Life Member of the Leamington Kinsman Club.He was elected to the Leamington city council in 1985, and later served as the town's
Mayor from 1988 to 1993. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in aby-election in onDecember 2 ,1993 in the riding of Essex South, held after longtime LiberalMember of Provincial Parliament (MPP)Remo Mancini announced his resignation from the legislature. He won this election very easily, defeating his nearest opponent (Progressive Conservative candidateJoan Flood ) by almost 10,000 votes, amid fewer than 20,000 cast.Crozier was re-elected in the 1995 provincial election, defeating his nearest opponent by almost 9000 votes on this occasion. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Crozier joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition. He supported
Dwight Duncan for the party leadership in 1996, and gave his support toDalton McGuinty after Duncan was eliminated.Crozier was re-elected in the 1999 election by over 10,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Essex, though again the Progressive Conservatives formed government at the provincial level.
His margin of victory was actually reduced in the 2003 provincial election, which the Liberals won in a landslide. He faced a strong challenge from New Democrat Pat Hayes, who supplanted the Tories for a second-place finish. He was not appointed to
Cabinet , but was named as the Legislature's Deputy Speaker onDecember 8 ,2003 . Many believed that Crozier was to be chosen as speaker when the assembly reconvened in 2005, replacingAlvin Curling . Instead, LiberalAlgoma-Manitoulin MPPMichael A. Brown ascended to that position.Crozier bears a passing resemblance to former Liberal
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson , and has frequently highlighted this connection by wearing bow-ties (for which Pearson was famous) in the Ontario legislature.
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