| 词条 | Vernon Singer |
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| name = Vern Singer | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | office1 = Ontario MPP | term_start1 = 1975 | term_end1 = 1977 | predecessor1 = New riding | successor1 = David Rotenberg | constituency1 = Wilson Heights | term_start2 = 1963 | term_end2 = 1975 | predecessor2 = New riding | successor2 = Odoardo Di Santo | constituency2 = Downsview | term_start3 = 1959 | term_end3 = 1963 | predecessor3 = Thomas Graham | successor3 = Riding abolished | constituency3 = York Centre | office4 = 8th Reeve of North York | term_start4 = 1957 | term_end4 = 1958 | predecessor4 = Fred J. McMahon | successor4 = Norman Goodhead | party = Liberal | birth_name = Vernon Milton Singer | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|03|26}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|09|20|1919|03|26}} | death_place = | occupation = Lawyer | spouse = Elaine | children = 3 }} Vernon Milton Singer (March 26, 1919 - September 20, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1977 who represented the North York ridings of York Centre, Downsview and Wilson Heights. BackgroundSinger was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of lawyer and politician Joseph Singer who was the first Jewish-Canadian to be elected to the Toronto Board of Control.[1] After serving in World War II with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Singer returned to Canada and became president of the Young Liberals in 1947. He worked for a while as a lawyer before entering politics. He and his wife Elaine had three children. PoliticsHe became a councillor in North York, Ontario eventually becoming reeve from 1957 to 1958. He ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party at the 1958 Ontario Liberal leadership convention, placing fourth. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1959 provincial election.[2] Singer became deputy leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and, as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP), pushed for reforms to municipal law, automobile insurance and electoral laws as well as for the establishment of a provincial ombudsman. He served as Liberal House Leader in the 1970s and, in 1973, sued fellow Liberal MPP Eddie Sargent for libel after Sargent made remarks about Singer's retainer fee from a developer while he was appearing before a legislative committee to explain how he obtained the contract to build Ontario Hydro's new headquarters in Toronto.[3] Singer was re-elected to the legislature on four successive occasions before retiring in 1977. His retirement was controversial as he announced it on the eve of that year's election campaign without giving his Liberal colleagues advance notice. The Progressive Conservatives won Singer's previously safe seat in the election and, the next year, the government appointed Singer to the first of five two-year terms on the Ontario Municipal Board including several years as its chairman.[4][5] The incident resulted in accusations by NDP MPP Ed Ziemba that the government had bought Singer's seat, and that of fellow Liberal Phil Givens who left in similar circumstances, through political patronage.[6] Later lifeFollowing his retirement from the Ontario Municipal Board in 1989, Singer won election to North York's committee of adjustment filling a seat vacated by Patti Starr when she was forced to resign as the result of a wider political scandal.[5] References1. ^{{cite news |title=Reeve Singer, Reaume Both In Leader Race |newspaper=Toronto Daily Star |date=April 3, 1958}} 2. ^{{cite news |author=Canadian Press |title=Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies |newspaper=The Ottawa Citizen |date=June 12, 1959 |location=Ottawa |page=26 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yh0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6095%2C2812390 |accessdate=2014-03-22}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Ticket machine is a winner if you don't get personal |newspaper=Globe and Mail |date=April 22, 1978}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=Left Liberals in lurch, Singer is appointed to municipal board |newspaper=Globe and Mail |date=August 30, 1978}} 5. ^1 {{cite news |first=Gail |last=Swainson |title=Former MPP fills Patti Starr post |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=October 5, 1989}} 6. ^{{cite news |title=Ziemba confrontation with Speaker over apology delayed |newspaper=Globe and Mail |date=May 31, 1980}} External links
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