Politics
Deacon was elected to the town council of Markham, Ontario and was appointed to the position of deputy reeve.
In 1967 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the 1967 provincial election. He was re-elected in the 1971 election and represented the Toronto area riding of York Centre until he resigned from the legislature in March 1974.
In 1973, Deacon ran for the Ontario Liberal leadership when Robert Nixon indicated he was stepping aside. Nixon changed his mind, and was re-elected leader with Deacon finishing in third place behind Nixon and Norman Cafik. When his friend and political colleague Barney Danson was appointed Minister of Defence, Deacon worked with Danson and Jacques Hébert to create Katimavik, a national service program designed to enable unemployed youth help others and themselves at the same time.
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