Bruce Whitestone, an economist, was educated at Yale University (where he graduated with top scholastic honours) and McGill University Graduate School. For more than forty years he has been involved in Canadian government affairs and the investment community.
He served as Special Assistant to Prime Minister Diefenbaker, was Economist of the Progressive Conservative Party, and under Prime Minister Pearson was Research Director, Special Planning Secretariat in the Privy Council Office in Ottawa.
In 1970 he was Economist of the House of Commons Committee on Finance when it reviewed the tax reform legislation.
He was appointed Chairman of the Economic Policy Support Group (Chief Economic Adviser) by Robert Nixon, when he was Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.
In 1973 he and Alexander MacIntosh were in charge of the Transition Committee that was to affect a transfer of power if the Government of Ontario changed hands in that year.
Bruce Whitestone was the Liberal Candidate for Wellington-Dufferin-Peel in the 1985 provincial election. In 1995 he was on the five-member Task Force to revitalize Kitchener, appointed by Mayor Richard Christy.
In 1998 he was adviser to the House of Commons Caucus Committee reviewing the question of bank mergers.
He worked in New York for J.P. Morgan and Company and for F. Eberstadt, underwriters.
He was an officer of Power Corporation in Montreal. First in Montreal, and then in Toronto he was Director of Research and Partner, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc.
He operates his farm in Breslau and his one in Ennotville, is married with four children, and is an active member of the Congregation of St. John the Evangelist (Anglican) in Elora where he was a Warden and a member of the Parish Council.
As a member of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce he was responsible for bringing labour representation to the Chamber, thereby greatly enhancing the Chamber's appeal.
He writes a syndicated newspaper column on economic affairs that appears once a week in newspapers across Canada.
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