23 Facts About Dennis Drainville

Dennis Paul Drainville was born on February 20,1954 and is a Canadian retired bishop, educator and politician.

Dennis Drainville was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1993; later taught humanities and history for 12 years at the Cegep de la Gaspesie et des Iles and was the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec from 2009 to 2017.

Dennis Drainville was a member of the Liberal Party at the time and campaigned in the downtown Toronto riding of Riverdale.

Dennis Drainville finished a distant third against the winner, Jim Renwick of the New Democratic Party.

Dennis Drainville later joined the NDP and, in 1989, was arrested for protesting the province's clearcutting practices in the Northern Ontario forests around Temagami.

Dennis Drainville stood with Chief Gary Potts and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai people in their 60-year legal battle to claim their lands in Temagami.

Dennis Drainville was fined and sent to jail in North Bay for a week in March 1991.

However, the NDP under Bob Rae won an unexpected majority government in the election, and Dennis Drainville won the riding by 6,520 votes over his nearest opponent.

Dennis Drainville served as a parliamentary assistant from 1990 to 1992, and as NDP Caucus chair from 1992 to 1993.

Dennis Drainville oversaw a massive constitutional consultation process during the Charlottetown Accord negotiations.

Dennis Drainville emerged as an ally of Peter Kormos in the NDP caucus, and frequently opposed the policies of the Rae government from a left-wing perspective.

Dennis Drainville continued to sit in the legislature as an independent.

Dennis Drainville resigned from the legislature on September 27,1993, and declared himself an independent candidate in the 1993 federal election.

Dennis Drainville later realigned himself with the federal NDP, and worked within the Quebec wing.

Dennis Drainville was elected to the City Council of the Ville de Perce for two four year terms representing sector 7 of that municipality from 1994 to 2002.

Dennis Drainville served as President of Seacoast Publications which publishes the only English Newspaper East of Quebec City from 1994 to 1995.

Dennis Drainville was appointed as associate priest of Christ Church Cathedral and Anglican chaplain of McGill University in Montreal and afterward, became the priest of the parish of Fenelon Falls and Coboconk in the Diocese of Toronto.

Dennis Drainville left that position and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1990.

Dennis Drainville began teaching in the CEGEP system in September 1994 at the College de la Gaspesie et des Iles.

Dennis Drainville became the tenured teacher of humanities in 2002.

On October 12,2007, while he was serving as Archbishop's Missioner in the Diocese of Quebec, Dennis Drainville was elected coadjutor bishop of the diocese at a special electoral synod.

Dennis Drainville was ordained to the episcopate on January 18,2008.

Dennis Drainville became diocesan bishop on the retirement of Archbishop Bruce Stavert, in 2009.