15 Facts About Wayne Wettlaufer

Wayne Kenneth Wettlaufer was a politician in Ontario, Canada.

Wayne Wettlaufer was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003.

Wayne Wettlaufer was promoted to corporate marketing manager with Gore Mutual, Cambridge in 1980, and became a partner in the firm of Wettlaufer, Collins, Rankin Insurance Brokers in 1984.

Wayne Wettlaufer remained a member of this firm until winning political office in 1995.

Wayne Wettlaufer was elected to the Ontario legislature for the riding of Kitchener in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal candidate Bryan Stortz by over 3,000 votes.

The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in this election and Wayne Wettlaufer served as a backbench supporter of the Mike Harris government.

Wayne Wettlaufer ran for the Kitchener Centre PC nomination in 1999 defeating fellow PC member Gary Leadston.

Wayne Wettlaufer was re-elected in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal Berry Vrbanovic by over 4,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Kitchener Centre.

Wayne Wettlaufer was appointed to the position of deputy whip after the election, and continued in his role as a backbencher throughout his time in the legislature.

Wayne Wettlaufer endorsed Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario PC Party in 2004 and 2009.

Wayne Wettlaufer lost to Harold Albrecht who went on to win the contest in the Canadian election of 2006.

In 2012, as president of the Ontario chapter of the German-Canadian Congress, Wayne Wettlaufer defended accused war criminal Helmut Oberlander who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship.

Wayne Wettlaufer was a candidate in the provincial election of 2014 in his old riding of Kitchener Centre.

Wayne Wettlaufer was defeated by Liberal candidate Daiene Vernile by 6,922 votes.

Wayne Wettlaufer was elected as a regional councillor for Kitchener in the 2014 election but served less than a year before his death on 21 June 2015.