- Wayne Wettlaufer
Wayne Wettlaufer (born
December 16 ,1943 in Kitchener,Ontario ) is apolitician in Ontario,Canada . He was a Progressive Conservative member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from1995 to2003 .Wettlaufer has a
Bachelor of Arts degree from theUniversity of Guelph . He began working as an insurance manager for K.W. Insurance in1963 , and as an insurance inspector for Waterloo Mutual and Gore Mutual,Ottawa in1972 . He was promoted to corporate marketing manager with Gore Mutual, Cambridge in1980 , and became a partner in the firm of "Wettlaufer, Collins, Rankin Insurance Brokers" in1984 . He remained a member of this firm until winning political office in1995 .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; Wettlaufer was not appointed tocabinet byPremier Mike Harris , but was named Assistant Deputy Whip in1995 .Wettlaufer was re-elected in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal
Berry Vrbanovic by over 4,000 votes in the redistributed riding ofKitchener Centre . He was promoted to the position of deputy whip after the election, but remained a governmentbackbencher throughout his time in the legislature.As a backbencher, he passed a Private Member's Bill designating the day after Thanksgiving in each year as German Pioneers Day in Ontario.
In the provincial election of 2003, Wettlaufer lost to Liberal candidate
John Milloy by just over 2,000 votes.Wettlaufer endorsed
Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario PC Party in2004 .
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