Bruce Owen

Bruce Owen
Ontario MPP
In office 1987–1990
Preceded by	Earl W. Rowe
Succeeded by	Paul Wessenger
Constituency	Simcoe Centre
Personal details
Born	1931 (age 85–86) Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Ann
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Anglican

Bruce Owen (born 1931) is a lawyer and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990.

Owen was born in Chatham, Ontario, and was educated at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He practices law, and was an alderman in Barrie, Ontario.

He ran for the House of Commons of Canada three times as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada. He lost to P.B. Rynard of the Progressive Conservative Party in Simcoe North in the 1972 election, and to Progressive Conservative Ronald A. Stewart in Simcoe South in the elections of 1980 and 1984.

He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, but lost to PC candidate Arthur Evans by 2,530 votes in Simcoe Centre. He ran again in the 1981 election, and lost to PC candidate George Taylor by a wider margin. Owen was finally elected in the 1987 election, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Earl W. Rowe by 2,492 votes in Simcoe Centre. He served as a backbench supporter of David Peterson's government for the next three years.

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