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Elmer Sopha
Elmer Sopha was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1971. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Sopha was considered one of the great orators in Ontario politics of his era. He was one of just two MPPs in the province who voted against the adoption of the current Flag of Ontario -- the Sudbury area has a large Franco-Ontarian population, who largely considered the flag a symbol of British imperialism, and Sopha argued in the legislature that the flag was not an appropriate symbol of Ontario's cultural diversity.
Also in 1965, Sopha spoke out in the legislature against CBC news anchor Earl Cameron, after Cameron potentially compromised his objectivity by appearing in a toothpaste commercial.
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