Bruce Crozier was a politician

Politician

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 in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

, representing the riding of Essex

Essex (electoral district)

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 for the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

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Background

Crozier was a Certified General Accountant

Certified General Accountant

Certified General Accountant is the designation of professionals who are jointly members of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada and a provincial or territorial CGA association, or a CGA association overseas...

 and member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario

Certified General Accountants of Ontario

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. 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 the Kinsmen Club from 1975 to 1976, and was a life member of the Leamington Kinsman Club.

Politics

He was elected to the Leamington

Leamington, Ontario

Leamington is a municipality in Essex County, southern Ontario, Canada, and has a population of 31,113. It includes Point Pelee, the southernmost point of mainland Canada. It has a large H. J. Heinz Company factory and is known as the "Tomato Capital of Canada", with 4 km² of this crop in the...

 city council in 1985, and later served as the town's Mayor

Mayor

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 from 1988 to 1993. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election

By-election

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 in on December 2, 1993 in the riding of Essex South, held after longtime Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Remo Mancini

Remo Mancini

Remo Mancini is a businessman and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1993, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.- Education :Mancini, a gold medal gymnast, received athletic scholarships...

 announced his resignation from the legislature. He won this election very easily, defeating his nearest opponent (Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

 candidate Joan Flood) by almost 10,000 votes, amid fewer than 20,000 cast.

Crozier was re-elected in the 1995 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1995

The Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada...

, 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

Dwight Duncan

Dwight Duncan, MPP is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, and is the Minister of Finance in the government of Dalton McGuinty...

 for the party leadership in 1996, and gave his support to Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

 after Duncan was eliminated.

Crozier was re-elected in the 1999 election

Ontario general election, 1999

An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

 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 reduced in the 2003 provincial election

Ontario general election, 2003

The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, which the Liberals won in a landslide. He faced a strong challenge from New Democrat

Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...

 Pat Hayes

Patrick Michael Hayes

Patrick Michael Hayes is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, and again from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...

, who supplanted the Tories for a second-place finish. He was not appointed to Cabinet

Cabinet (government)

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, but was named as the Legislature's Deputy Speaker

Speaker (politics)

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 on December 8, 2003. Many believed that Crozier was to be chosen as speaker when the assembly reconvened in 2005, replacing Alvin Curling

Alvin Curling

Alvin Curling is a prominent Black Canadian. He was Canada's envoy to the Dominican Republic from 2005-2006. A former politician in Ontario, Canada, he was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until he resigned on August 19, 2005 to accept his diplomatic appointment...

. Instead, Liberal Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael A. Brown

Michael A. Brown

Michael A. "Mike" Brown, MPP is a politician in Ontario, Canada and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from October 2005 until October 2007...

 was selected for that position.

Crozier announced on November 29, 2010, that he would not be a candidate in the 2011 election

Ontario general election, 2011

The 40th Ontario general election was held on October 6, 2011 to elect members of the 40th Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The Ontario Liberal Party will form a minority government, with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario serving as the Official Opposition and the Ontario New...

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Premier Dalton McGuinty announced on June 4 that Crozier had died the previous evening of an abdominal aortic aneurysm

Aortic aneurysm

An aortic aneurysm is a general term for any swelling of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal, usually representing an underlying weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location...

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Election results

|-

|Bruce Crozier
|align="right"|19,969
|align="right"|48.02
|align="right"|
|-

|Richard Kniaziew
|align="right"|10,400
|align="right"|25.01
|align="right"|
|-

|John Grima
|align="right"|8,638
|align="right"|20.77
|align="right"|
|-

|Jessica Fracassi
|align="right"|2,220
|align="right"|5.34
|align="right"|
|-

|Aaron Parent
|align="right"|358
|align="right"|0.86
|aligh="right"|
|}


|-

|Bruce Crozier
|align="right"|20,559
|align="right"|45.28
|align="right"|-11.45
|-

|Pat Hayes
|align="right"|12,614
|align="right"|27.78
|align="right"|+19.43
|-

|Patrick O'Neil
|align="right"|11,234
|align="right"|24.74
|align="right"|-9.49
|-

|Darren J. Brown
|align="right"|998
|align="right"|2.2
|}


|-

|Bruce Crozier
|align="right"|25,446
|align="right"|56.73
|-

|Pat O'Neil
|align="right"|15,354
|align="right"|34.23
|-

|Merv Richards
|align="right"|3745
|align="right"|8.35
|-

|Enver Villamizar
|align="right"|307
|align="right"|0.68
|}


|-

|Bruce Crozier
|align="right"|14,513
|align="right"|
|-

|Dave Wylupek
|align="right"|5,730
|align="right"|
|-

|Dave Maris
|align="right"|4,348
|align="right"|
|-

|Enver Villamizar
|align="right"|1,550
|align="right"|
|-

|David Mitchell
|align="right"|498
|align="right"|
|}



|-

|Bruce Crozier
|align="right"|12,736
|align="right"|
|-

|Joan Flood
|align="right"|3,295
|align="right"|
|-

|David Maris
|align="right"|1,100
|align="right"|
|-

|Joyce Ann Cherryr
|align="right"|1,060
|align="right"|
|-

|Michael Green
|align="right"|132
|align="right"|
|-

|John Turmel
|align="right"|84
|align="right"|
|}

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