The governing
Liberal Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the
1984 Canadian federal election, and won forty seats to become the
Official Opposition in the parliament that followed.
Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages. Information on others may be found here.
Brant: Peter Hexamer
Peter Hexamer is a retired construction engineer in
Brantford. He served on the
Brant County council for four years before 1980, and in the
1980 municipal election he won election to the
Brantford City Council in a temporary ward covering land annexed from the county.
Brantford Expositor, 2 November 1982, p. 9. He was re-elected to council in the
1982 election for the city's second ward. After running the House of Commons, he did not seek re-election in 1985.
After retiring as an engineer, Hexamer started a manufacturing firm and has been credited with inventing a new, highly reliable form of bicycle lock.Dick Snyder, "The Alcatraz of Bike Locks,"
Globe and Mail, 8 June 1996, B20.Mary Welsh, "Waterways foundation total now at $3.5 million,"
Brantford Expositor, 4 June 2004, B9. He owns a
wind farm company, and he was profiled in 2010 for setting up a project in
St. Kitts and Nevis., St. Kitts Daily Star, 23 February 2010, accessed 12 November......
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