successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
katherine whittred new democrat mla for north vancouver-lonsdale 9 april 1947 1991 david schreck
 1996 david d. schreck pundit
david schreck

david d. schreck is a one-time member of the legislative assembly in the province of british columbia in canada and a political pundit .
schreck represented the riding of north vancouver-lonsdale from 1991 to 1996 for the new democratic party of british columbia .
he served as parliamentary secretary to the premier and to a minister of employment and investment .
he won election in 1991 by half a percentage point -lrb- less than 500 votes -rrb- but lost his seat in the 1996 bc election , by more than 10 per cent of the vote , to katherine anne whittred .
afterwards , schreck failed to win a councillor 's seat for the district 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 , strategicthoughts.com , and appears weekly on victoria radio station cfax with host murray langdon .
his background is in economics .
schreck received a degree in that field from grinnell college in 1969 and a ph.d. from the university of british columbia in 1978 .
in october 2011 , his tweet , `` is premier clark 's cleavage revealing attire appropriate for the legislature ? ''
generated controversy and a reprimand from ndp leader adrian dix .
