Bruce Crozier was a politician in Ontario, Canada.
15 Facts About Bruce Crozier
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Bruce Crozier was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the ridings of Essex South and Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party.
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Bruce Crozier was the National Director of the Kinsmen Club from 1975 to 1976, and was a life member of the Leamington Kinsman Club.
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Bruce Crozier was elected to the Leamington city council in 1985, and later served as the town's Mayor from 1988 to 1993.
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Bruce Crozier was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in on December 2,1993 in the riding of Essex South, held after longtime Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Remo Mancini announced his resignation from the legislature.
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Bruce Crozier won this election very easily, defeating his nearest opponent by almost 10,000 votes, amid fewer than 20,000 cast.
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Bruce Crozier was re-elected in the 1995 provincial election, defeating his nearest opponent by almost 9,000 votes.
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The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Bruce Crozier joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition.
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Bruce Crozier supported Dwight Duncan for the party leadership in 1996, and gave his support to Dalton McGuinty after Duncan was eliminated.
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Bruce 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.
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Bruce Crozier faced a strong challenge from New Democrat Pat Hayes, who supplanted the Tories for a second-place finish.
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Bruce Crozier was not appointed to Cabinet, but was named as the Legislature's Deputy Speaker on December 8,2003.
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In December 2007, Bruce Crozier was made chair of the Committee of the Whole House, a senior parliamentary role responsible for maintaining order during house sessions.
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Bruce Crozier announced on November 29,2010, that he would not be a candidate in the 2011 election.
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On June 4,2011, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that Bruce Crozier had died the previous evening of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at a hospital in Windsor, Ontario.