Terence Young for Oakville

Terence Young was first elected as MP for Oakville in October 2008. This followed four years as MPP in the Ontario Legislative Assembly (1995 to 1999) where he served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministers of Education and Finance, and chaired the Standing Committee on Finance.

Terence serves on the Standing Committees of Public Accounts, and Procedures and House Affairs (PROC). He is Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Aerospace Caucus, and Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Arts Caucus.

After losing his fifteen year old daughter Vanessa to the Johnson and Johnson drug Prepulsid in 2000 – a preventable adverse drug reaction – Terence founded Drug Safety Canada in 2002, a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the safe use of prescription drugs and raising awareness of the harms related to prescription drug use. His book Death by Prescription was published by Key Porter in March 2009 and is being translated into French for spring 2011.

Terence lives in Oakville with Gloria, his wife of 30 years, and is proud father to two adult children: Madeline, founder of Opera Jeunesse, and Hart, a landscape architect.