- David D. Schreck
David D. Schreck is a one-time
Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province ofBritish Columbia inCanada and a politicalpundit .Schreck represented the riding of
North Vancouver-Lonsdale from 1991 to 1996 for theleft-wing New Democratic Party of British Columbia . He served as parliamentary secretary to thePremier and to a Minister of Employment and Investment.He won election in 1991 by half a percentage point (less than 500 votes) but lost his seat in the 1996 BC election, by more than 10 per cent of the vote, to
Katherine Anne Whittred . (She remains the incumbent as of 2007.) Afterwards, Schreck failed to win a councillor's seat for theDistrict of North Vancouver and declared he would not again run in a political election. His term as MLA was his only successful bid after tries in the 1983, 1986, and 1991 provincial elections and the 1984 federal election.He publishes political commentary on his website, [http://www.strategicthoughts.com/ StrategicThoughts.com] , and appears weekly on
CFAX with hostJoe Easingwood .His background is in
economics . Schreck received a degree in that field fromGrinnell College in 1969 and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of British Columbia in 1978.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
