Drummond White is a former politician

Politician

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 in Ontario, Canada

Canada

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. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

 from 1990 to 1995.

Background

White is employed as a family counsellor and social worker. His work emphasizes mediation and family assessment. In 2005, he was chosen as the Ontario recipient of the Canadian Association of Social Workers' Distinguished Service Award.

White represents the social workers in Ontario on the board of the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW). In 2008, he was elected Secretary-Treasurer.

He is married to Norah Love and they have three adult children: Amanda, Devin, and Lenore.

Politics

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1990

The Ontario general election of 1990 was held on September 6, 1990, to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada....

, defeating incumbent Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

 Allan Furlong

Allan Furlong

Allan Furlong is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990....

 and Conservative Jim Flaherty by over 2,000 votes in the Greater Toronto Area

Greater Toronto Area

The Greater Toronto Area is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2006 census population of 5.5 million. The Greater Toronto Area is usually defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York...

 riding of Durham Centre

Durham Centre

Durham Centre was a provincial electoral district in the Durham Region. Created in 1987, the riding contained the town of Whitby from south of Taunton Road...

.

The NDP won a majority in this election and White served as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs responsible for the Office of the Greater Toronto Area on two occasions between 1992 and 1995.

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1995

The Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada...

, and lost much of their previous support base in the Greater Toronto Area. White was defeated in his bid for re-election, finishing a third against Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

 Jim Flaherty

Jim Flaherty

James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...

and Allan Furlong.