Terence Young (politician)
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Terence Young is a politician
in Ontario, Canada
. He was elected for the riding of Oakville
in the 2008 federal election
, as a Conservative
candidate. Previously, Young was a Progressive Conservative
member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
between 1995 and 1999.
in 1975 and attended Osgoode Hall Law School
for one year, before choosing to pursue a business career.
as an independent candidate in the 1974 federal election
, in the Toronto riding of Parkdale
. He received 144 votes, finishing well behind winner Stanley Haidasz
of the Liberal Party
. Young was still a student at the time, and says that this first exposure to politics was a great experience.
. He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1995 election
, defeating incumbent Liberal
Barbara Sullivan
by 16,644 votes in Halton Centre amid a Tory sweep of the region. He served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education for three years with responsibility for Colleges and Universities, and later as Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister Ernie Eves, who later became Premier of Ontario, and Chair of the Legislative Assembly Finance Committee.
Young was part of a "family values caucus" in the Progressive Conservative party, a group which was frequently marginalized by the Mike Harris
government. The group is often classified socially conservative
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/16/28/News/feature.html, however Young however disagrees with the "social conservative" label. As a legislator, Young criticized the Halton School Board for approving Joyce Carol Oates
's novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, for Grade Twelve English, against the wishes of parents who considered it obscene and overly violent.
In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. As a result, some MPPs from the same party were forced to compete against one another for re-nomination. Young ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new constituency of Oakville
, but lost to fellow MPP Gary Carr
, 651 votes to 432.
Young endorsed Frank Klees
's bid to become leader of the Ontario PC Party in 2004.
in the 2008 federal election
, defeating Liberal
incumbent Bonnie Brown in Oakville
.
In April 2009 Young's book "Death by Prescription" was published by independent publisher Key Porter in hardcover format. On April 20, 2009 Young placed a Private Member's Motion on the Order Paper of the Parliament of Canada that would create an independent drug agency for Canada similar to the Nuclear Safety Agency or Transportation Safety Board, focussing solely on prescription drug safety. Young also began a cross Canada tour promoting the book and his motion that took him from Ottawa and Oakville to Winnipeg, Vancouver, John's Newfoundland and Iqaluit. Death by Prescription is being translated into French for publication in Quebec in the spring of 2010.
As Parliamentarian Young has served on The Standing Committees for Public Accounts, Citizenship and Immigration, and Scrutiny of Regulations, and worked with opposition members to create an ad hoc parliamentary committee which addresses the concerns of the aerospace industry which he Co-Chairs. He is a member of several Interparliamentary Associations and serves on the Executive of the Canada-Poland and Canada-Ukraine Paliamentary Friendship Groups.
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
in Ontario, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He was elected for the riding of Oakville
Oakville (electoral district)
Oakville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-History:It was created in 1996 from parts of Halton and Oakville—Milton ridings....
in the 2008 federal election
Canadian federal election, 2008
The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the previous parliament had been dissolved by the Governor General on September 7, 2008...
, as a Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...
candidate. Previously, Young was a 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...
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...
between 1995 and 1999.
Early years
Young was the fourth of five sons of Canon George V. Young Rector at St. Annes' Anglican Church in Toronto's west end. In his youth Young performed on radio and TV commercials and at age thirteen shared billing with Canadian icon William Hutt and Frances Hyland at The Manitoba Theatre Centre in the William Kinsolving play Nicholas Romanoff. Young's mother Judith is a member of the Massey family, prominent business leaders and philanthropists in the Toronto area.Education
He received his B.A. in Political and Social Science from York UniversityYork University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
in 1975 and attended Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School is a Canadian law school, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and affiliated with York University. Named after the first Chief Justice of Ontario, William Osgoode, the law school was established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889 and was the only accredited law...
for one year, before choosing to pursue a business career.
Entrance to politics
Young ran for the Canadian House of CommonsCanadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
as an independent candidate in the 1974 federal election
Canadian federal election, 1974
The Canadian federal election of 1974 was held on July 8, 1974 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 30th Parliament of Canada. The governing Liberal Party won its first majority government since 1968, and gave Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau his third term...
, in the Toronto riding of Parkdale
Parkdale (electoral district)
Parkdale was a Canadian federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1979. It included the community of Parkdale in the western part of Toronto...
. He received 144 votes, finishing well behind winner Stanley Haidasz
Stanley Haidasz
Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...
of the Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
. Young was still a student at the time, and says that this first exposure to politics was a great experience.
Provincial politics
Before returning to political life, Young was a manager for Bell CanadaBell Canada
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories,...
. He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1995 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...
, 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...
Barbara Sullivan
Barbara Sullivan
Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan (born January 24, 1943 in Calgary, is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995....
by 16,644 votes in Halton Centre amid a Tory sweep of the region. He served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education for three years with responsibility for Colleges and Universities, and later as Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister Ernie Eves, who later became Premier of Ontario, and Chair of the Legislative Assembly Finance Committee.
Young was part of a "family values caucus" in the Progressive Conservative party, a group which was frequently marginalized by the Mike Harris
Mike Harris
Michael Deane "Mike" Harris was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government...
government. The group is often classified socially conservative
Social conservatism
Social Conservatism is primarily a political, and usually morally influenced, ideology that focuses on the preservation of what are seen as traditional values. Social conservatism is a form of authoritarianism often associated with the position that the federal government should have a greater role...
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/16/28/News/feature.html, however Young however disagrees with the "social conservative" label. As a legislator, Young criticized the Halton School Board for approving Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
's novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, for Grade Twelve English, against the wishes of parents who considered it obscene and overly violent.
In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. As a result, some MPPs from the same party were forced to compete against one another for re-nomination. Young ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new constituency of Oakville
Oakville (electoral district)
Oakville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-History:It was created in 1996 from parts of Halton and Oakville—Milton ridings....
, but lost to fellow MPP Gary Carr
Gary Carr
Gary Carr is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006...
, 651 votes to 432.
Young endorsed Frank Klees
Frank Klees
Frank Klees is a Canadian politician and the Progressive Conservative member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Newmarket—Aurora north of Toronto. He was a candidate in the 2009 Progressive Conservative leadership election placing second behind victor Tim Hudak.-Early life:Klees was born...
's bid to become leader of the Ontario PC Party in 2004.
Consumer advocate
Young's fifteen-year old daughter Vanessa died in 2000 after taking the Johnson & Johnson prescription drug Cisapride (Prepulsid). Young became a consumer advocate after this incident, and has been fighting for a more stringent and protective drug-monitoring system in Canada. He founded Drug Safety Canada to advocate for safe prescription drugs, and also initiated a hundred million dollar class action law suit against Johnson & Johnson and Health Canada in 2000.Federal politics
He was elected to the Canadian House of CommonsCanadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
in the 2008 federal election
Canadian federal election, 2008
The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the previous parliament had been dissolved by the Governor General on September 7, 2008...
, defeating Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
incumbent Bonnie Brown in Oakville
Oakville (electoral district)
Oakville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-History:It was created in 1996 from parts of Halton and Oakville—Milton ridings....
.
In April 2009 Young's book "Death by Prescription" was published by independent publisher Key Porter in hardcover format. On April 20, 2009 Young placed a Private Member's Motion on the Order Paper of the Parliament of Canada that would create an independent drug agency for Canada similar to the Nuclear Safety Agency or Transportation Safety Board, focussing solely on prescription drug safety. Young also began a cross Canada tour promoting the book and his motion that took him from Ottawa and Oakville to Winnipeg, Vancouver, John's Newfoundland and Iqaluit. Death by Prescription is being translated into French for publication in Quebec in the spring of 2010.
As Parliamentarian Young has served on The Standing Committees for Public Accounts, Citizenship and Immigration, and Scrutiny of Regulations, and worked with opposition members to create an ad hoc parliamentary committee which addresses the concerns of the aerospace industry which he Co-Chairs. He is a member of several Interparliamentary Associations and serves on the Executive of the Canada-Poland and Canada-Ukraine Paliamentary Friendship Groups.