He received his B.A. in Political and Social Science from York University in 1975 and attended Osgoode Hall Law School for one year,before pursuing a business career. He worked for Ford Motor Company in sales,was a General Motors Sales Master and was licensed by the American Federation of Musicians to book Canadian musicians through Music Shoppe International.[citation needed] Before politics Young also worked as a manager for Bell Canada.
He lives in Oakville with wife Gloria whom he married in 1980. They raised three children,daughters,Madeline and Vanessa;and son,Hart.[2]
Young served as President of the Lewis Garnsworthy Tower,a not-for-profit supportive housing residence for seniors in Toronto,and on the board of St. Hilda's Towers from 2001 to 2013. He was vice-chair of the Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians (2001) and Founding President of Policy Alliance Inc.,a government relations firm (2001).[3]
Drug advocacy
Young's fifteen-year-old daughter Vanessa died in 2000 after taking the Johnson &Johnson prescription drug cisapride (brand name in Canada: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,[citation needed] and also initiated a hundred million dollar class action lawsuit against Johnson &Johnson and Health Canada in 2000,and an individual lawsuit,later settled after a six-year court battle. This story is told in detail in Young's 2009 book Death by Prescription.[4] He introduced a Private member's bill on April 20,2009,to establish an independent drug agency for Canada similar to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission or the Transportation Safety Board of Canada,focussing solely on prescription drug safety. The bill has been reintroduced through subsequent parliamentary sessions up to the most recent (as of August2015[update]),the 41st Canadian Parliament,2nd session,but has never advanced to become law.[5] After earlier government legislation had died on the Order Paper at the dissolution of the 39th Canadian Parliament,[6] Young conceived and sponsored Bill C-17,An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act—Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa's Law),[7] named for his late daughter,[6] which received Royal assent on November 6,2014.[8] The law gives Health Canada powers to order drug companies to provide clearly worded safety warnings to patients and doctors for all drugs in plain language,to change drug labels for drugs on the market to clearly reflect new safety information,to conduct new studies on drugs that have shown safety concerns,to take unsafe drugs off the market and the supply chain within 48 hours,and to compel health care institutions to report all serious adverse drug reactions to Health Canada. It also,amongst other powers,allows the Minister of Health to compel drug companies to make confidential business information (CBI) on their drugs available to specific entities such as the provinces and researchers,when patients are at risk of serious harm. The law also provides for fines,the level of which is at a court's discretion,for criminal negligence that harms patients.[6]
Authors in the Canadian Medical Association Journal have noted concerns with the enforcement of drug reaction reporting the law requires,with heretofore onerous reporting methods leading to low rates of report (5%),and suggesting "Reports for adverse drug reactions must be simple and quick to complete,and support clinical decisions at the point of care".[9][10] Others have suggested the law will fail as it excludes natural remedies.[6][10][11]
Provincial politics
Young was elected for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to the provincial legislature in the 1995 election,defeating incumbent LiberalBarbara Sullivan by 16,644 votes in Halton Centre amid a PC Party of Ontario sweep of the region.[12] He served as a backbench supporter of the Mike Harris government. He served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education for three years with responsibility for Colleges and Universities,and then as Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister.[13]
Young was part of a "family values caucus" in the Progressive Conservative Party,a group of right-wing members which included Jim Brown,Jack Carroll and Frank Klees. The group promoted legislation that sought to impress a certain moral view in Ontario society.[14] Young said,"family values are things you have to discuss all the time. We didn't have any specific commitment to any family values legislation in the election campaign. But individual candidates like myself may have."[15] In 1997 and 1998,Young twice sponsored a private members bill called the Zero Tolerance for Substance Abuse Act which would have required school principals to automatically suspend students if they were caught with cigarettes,alcohol or drugs.[16] Both times the bill didn't make it past second reading.[17][18]
Young criticized the Halton School Board for approving Joyce Carol Oates's novel,Foxfire:Confessions of a Girl Gang,for Grade Twelve English. Young admitted he had not read the book but had seen excerpts which he characterized as pornographic and obscene.[19]
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.[20]
He was elected to the House of Commons in the 2008 federal election,defeating Liberal incumbent Bonnie Brown in Oakville.[24] On May 2,2011,Young was reelected in Oakville with a larger majority of 12,178 votes,defeating local Oakville councillor Liberal Max Khan.[25] He served as a backbench supporter of the Stephen Harper government.
In December 2014,Young introduced a Private Member's Bill called An Act Respecting the Prevention of Potential Health Risks from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation. The act which was co-written by Canadians for Safe Technology would have forced manufacturers of devices emitting electronic signals to place warning labels on the packaging. The bill did not get past first reading.[26][27]
As a member of the Standing Committee on Health,Young devoted much of his time in Parliament to speaking out about the dangers of marijuana and the deaths it is allegedly directly responsible for. Young contended that marijuana legalization would normalize its use among Canadian youth,who currently lead the developed world in marijuana consumption.[28] Young's argument that legalizing marijuana would still allow minors access because minors clearly have access to tobacco and alcohol despite age restrictions,had the unintended consequence of also being an argument against the legalization of the latter two substances,as noted by pundits.[29]
Young was acclaimed as the Conservative candidate in Oakville riding for the 2015 Canadian federal election.[30] At an all candidates' debate hosted by the Oakville Chamber of Commerce on October 6,2015,when asked how he and his party would create employment for young Canadians,Young changed the subject stating one of the biggest problems Canada's youth have is drugs. The move provoked a groan from the crowd.[31] Young also alleged during the campaign that the Liberal Party would create brothels if elected.[32]
In the 2015 federal election,he lost to Liberal candidate John Oliver by 4,480 votes.[33]
He attempted a comeback in the 2019 federal election,but he lost to Liberal candidate Anita Anand. After the 2019 election,Young supported attempts to remove Andrew Scheer as leader of the Conservative Party.[34] Speaking with The Globe and Mail,Young described Scheer as "a nice man," but that during the election he didn't find a way to connect affirmatively with voters. Young said that he first noticed this issue during the campaign. "Not one voter ever said to me,'Gee,I really like your leader,'" Young said. "Many voters said various versions of the opposite." He also said that "A partial victory is still a loss" (the Conservatives had gained seats but too few to replace the Liberals as the governing party),and that he believed Peter MacKay could "connect with people" and that he was "principled." He said about Scheer that "This isn’t a Rotary club,this is our country,and no one deserves a second chance because people like them."
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↑ Hardcover: Young, Terence H (2009). Death by Prescription. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN9781552638255. OCLC76481186. Paperback: Young, Terence H (2012). Death by Prescription. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press. ISBN9780889629622. OCLC879647808. Published in French as: Young, Terence H (2011). Mourir sur ordonnance: un père enquête sur l'industrie pharmaceutique (in French). Translated by Françoise Forest; Geneviève Boulanger. preface by J.-Claude St-Onge. Montreal: Éditions Écosociété. ISBN9782923165752. OCLC701590125.
↑ Van Luven, Lynne (10 May 1997). "Good Idea Gone to Seed: Joyce Carol Oates may have strayed into dangerous terrain once again -- at least to the minds of overprotective parents". The Windsor Star. p.E4.
↑ Boyle, Theresa (14 April 1999). "Carr wins nomination in Oakville". Toronto Star. p.1.
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