Four Jewish candidates were elected yesterday to the Ontario Legislature, one more than the Jewish representation in the previous House.
Allan Grossman, a Conservative, was returned to the Legislature in the Conservative’s seventh straight general election victory. Joseph Gould and Vernon Singer, running for reelection on the Liberal ticket, also won.
The new Jewish legislator is Stephen Lewis, 27, a member of the New Democratic party. All of the Jewish legislators are from the Toronto area. Two other Jewish candidates, J. Sidney Midanik, and Alan Borovoy, were defeated by narrow margins.
A former leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists, Ross Taylor, who ran on the Social Credit slate, was defeated along with all other candidates on that slate. Ross, who was interned during World War II, was a leading blackshirt during the 1930’s. He was expelled in 1962 from the Social Credit League and joined the Social Credit Action splinter group which was subsequently disavowed by the League.
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