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2 Years experience with Peel Regional Police.<\/p>\n
Served with the RCMP on 2 separate international police peacekeeping missions overseas (Afghanistan 2012-2013, Ukraine 2016-2017).<\/p>\n
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Crawford ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario nomination in the summer of 2017, defeating his opponents in the second round of voting. In the 2018 Ontario General Election, Crawford ran against Liberal candidate, and long time incumbent, Kevin Flynn. Also running in the election was, NDP candidate Lesley Sprague, Green Party candidate Emily De Sousa, and Libertarian Party candidate Spencer Oklobdzija. Crawford beat Kevin Flynn in the election by 4510 votes, ending his 15 year tenure as Oakville’s MPP. On August 9th 2018, Crawford was named the Chair of the Finance and Economic Affairs Committee.”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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