Derek Fletcher (born ) is a former

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, Canada. He was a

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member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, representing

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Background

Fletcher was born in

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and moved to Canada with has family at the age of six. He worked as a flexographic press operator for sixteen years at Macmillan Bathurst Industries in

. He served as president of the Guelph and District Labour Council from 1984 to 1988, and was a school board trustee on the Wellington County Public School Board from 1985 to 1990.

Politics

Fletcher ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, finishing a distant third in the riding of

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. In the 1987 provincial election, he finished second in the redistributed riding of

. In both cases, the winning candidate was

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Rick Ferraro. The NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Fletcher defeated Ferraro by 3,107 votes in his third run for office. He served as a

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to the Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations from 1990 to 1993. For the remainder of the term he was parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Citizenship. The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Fletcher finished third in his bid for re-election. The winning candidate was Brenda Elliott of the Progressive Conservatives.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fletcher, Derek 1951 births Living people Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs People from Guelph