Honorific-Prefix: | Doctor |
Tom Perry | |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Residence: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Constituency Am: | Vancouver-Little Mountain |
Assembly: | British Columbia Legislative |
Term Start: | October 17, 1991 |
Term End: | May 28, 1996 |
Predecessor: | Grace McCarthy Doug Mowat |
Successor: | Gary Farrell-Collins |
Constituency Am1: | Vancouver-Point Grey |
Assembly1: | British Columbia Legislative |
Term Start1: | March 15, 1989 |
Term End1: | October 17, 1991 |
Predecessor1: | Kim Campbell |
Alongside1: | Darlene Marzari |
Successor1: | Darlene Marzari |
Party: | New Democrat |
Tom Perry is a former Canadian politician. He served as an MLA in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1989 to 1996, as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.He qualified as a doctor.[2] Perry was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election in Vancouver-Point Grey in 1989 after Kim Campbell had resigned from the legislature to run in the 1988 federal election.[3] At the time, Vancouver-Point Grey was a multiple-member district, and Perry served alongside Darlene Marzari.
During the 1991 election, which was contested under new single-member boundaries, Marzari was the NDP candidate in Vancouver-Point Grey, and Perry stood in Vancouver-Little Mountain, where he was re-elected.[4] Perry was the minister for advanced education, training, and technology as well as the minister responsible for youth from 1991 to 1993.[2] He did not run in the 1996 election, and was succeeded by Gary Farrell-Collins.
He subsequently returned to medicine and taught clinical pharmacology at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital.[2]