Provincial Politics
He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, but lost to Bill Ferrier of the NDP by 1,292 votes. He ran again in the 1977 provincial election, and defeated Ferrier by 2,276 votes.
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“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
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