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Vernon Singer

Vernon Milton Singer (1919 - September 20 2003) was an Ontario politician.

After serving in World War II with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Singer returned to Canada and became president of the Young Liberals in 1947. While practicing as a lawyer, he entered politics as an alderman in North York, Ontario serving ultimately as reeve during the 1950s. He ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party at the 1958 Ontario Liberal leadership convention placing fourth and was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1959 provincial election .

Singer became deputy leader of the Liberal Party and, as an MPP, pushed for reforms to municipal law, automobile insurance and electoral laws as well as for the establishment of a provincial ombudsman.

Singer was re-elected to the legislature on four successive occasions before retiring in 1977 after which he served for five terms on the Ontario Municipal Board.

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