Bruce Hyer
| Bruce Hyer | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North |
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In office 2008–2015 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Comuzzi |
| Succeeded by | Patty Hajdu |
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August 6, 1946 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Political party | Green |
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New Democratic (2004-12) Independent (2012-13) |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Wanlin |
| Residence | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| Profession | ecologist, businessman |
| Religion | Unitarian Universalist |
Bruce Tolhurst Hyer (born August 6, 1946) is a Canadian politician, the deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada and the former Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North. Hyer was elected in the 2008 federal election, and re-elected with a wider margin in the 2011 federal election; on both occasions while standing for the New Democratic Party.
Hyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1946. He graduated in 1964 from Hall High School, and was a Republican at the time. In Willimantic, Connecticut he worked as a police officer, using his knowledge of Spanish to conduct outreach to the Hispanic community. After graduating from Central Connecticut State University, Hyer helped to create the Connecticut State Department of Environmental Protection, where as a Senior Environmental Analyst, he worked on water and air pollution, land use planning, and was in charge of pesticide registration. He played a key role in banning DDT and many other of the “dirty dozen” chlorinated pesticides, and ended the spraying of non-selective chemical insecticides in unmanaged forests. At age 29, he moved to Canada to live in the wilderness 40 km (25 miles) west of Armstrong Station, Ontario. Hyer lived for two years mostly off the land in the Canadian wilderness; first in a tipi and later in a log cabin he constructed himself. In 1978 he moved to Thunder Bay, where he started a retail outdoor and camera store called WildWaters Wilderness Shop. He married Margaret Wanlin in 1993. Their son Michael was born in 1995.
Hyer has had a number of vocations and avocations, including consultant, wilderness guide, log building and whitewater canoeing instructor, biologist, teacher (high school, college, university), bush pilot, and land use planner.
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