Wayne Wettlaufer
| Wayne Wettlaufer | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1999–2003 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | John Milloy |
| Constituency | Kitchener Centre |
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In office 1995–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Will Ferguson |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Constituency | Kitchener |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 16, 1943 Kitchener, Ontario |
| Died | June 21, 2015 (aged 71) Waterloo, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Kitchener, Ontario |
| Occupation | Insurance manager |
Wayne Wettlaufer (December 16, 1943 – June 21, 2015) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003. In 2014 he was elected as a regional councillor for Kitchener and he served in that position until his death in 2015.
Wettlaufer obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Guelph. He worked as an insurance manager for K.W. Insurance in 1963, and as an insurance inspector for Waterloo Mutual and Gore Mutual, Ottawa in 1972. He was promoted to corporate marketing manager with Gore Mutual, Cambridge in 1980, and became a partner in the firm of Wettlaufer, Collins, Rankin Insurance Brokers in 1984. He remained a member of this firm until winning political office in 1995.
Wettlaufer was elected to the Ontario legislature for the riding of Kitchener in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal candidate Bryan Stortz by over 3,000 votes. The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in this election and Wettlaufer served as a backbench supporter of the Mike Harris government.
In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of ridings from 130 to 103. This change meant that sitting MPPs had to compete against one another for re-nomination in some ridings. Wettlaufer ran for the Kitchener Centre PC nomination in 1999 defeating fellow PC member Gary Leadston. Wettlaufer was re-elected in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal Berry Vrbanovic by over 4,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Kitchener Centre. He was appointed to the position of deputy whip after the election, and continued in his role as a backbencher throughout his time in the legislature.
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