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Crozier is a Certified General Accountant . He worked for the H.J. Heinz Company for eleven years, and was the Vice-President of Finance and Secretary-Treasurer for Bennie Lumber and Building Materials Ltd.. He was also the National Director of the Kinsman Club from 1975 to 1976, and is a Life Member of the Leamington Kinsman Club.

He was elected to the Leamington city council in 1985, and later served as the town's Mayor from 1988 to 1993. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in on December 2, 1993 in the riding of Essex South , held after longtime Liberal MPP Remo Mancini announced his resignation from the legislature. He won this election very easily, defeating his nearest opponent ( Progressive Conservative candidate Joan Flood ) by almost 10,000 votes, amid fewer than 20,000 cast.

Crozier was re-elected in the 1995 provincial electionBob Rae's Ontario New Democratic Party government was defeated by voters, who are angry at the mistakes made by the inexperienced NDP, and frustrated by rising taxes and unemployment. Lyn McLeod's Liberals, who had been leading in the polls, were denied v, defeating his nearest opponent by almost 9000 votes on this occasion. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Crozier joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition. He was re-elected in the 1999 election by over 10,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Essex, though again the Progressive Conservatives formed government at the provincial level.

Ironically, Crozier's margin of victory was actually reduced in the 2003 provincial electionThe province of Ontario, Canada conducted a general election on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves after the governing, which the Liberals won in a landslide. He faced a strong challenge from New Democrat Pat Hayes , who supplanted the Tories for a second-place finish. He was not appointed to CabinetAlternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers . In some countries, particularly those, but was named as the Legislature's Deputy SpeakerThe term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a country's lower house of parliament or congress (ie: the House of Commons or House of Representatives). In most cases a speaker is elected from amongst the members of the assembly b on December 8December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining. Events 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin., 2003.

Crozier bears a passing resemblence to former Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, and has frequently highlighted this connection by wearing bow-ties (for which Pearson was famous) in the Ontario legislature.