Douglas Glenn Fisher

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Douglas Glenn Fisher (born November 28, 1942) is a Canadian politician and businessman. A Liberal, he was the Member of Parliament for Mississauga North from 1980 to 1984. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1982 to 1984 and chaired the Metropolitan Toronto Liberal caucus during that period. He also represented Canada at the Caribbean Development Bank in 1982–83 and chaired the Subcommittee on Taxation of Artists and Writers in 1984. He lost his seat in 1984 to Robert Horner and ran again in 1988 but was defeated.

Fisher was born in Windsor, Ontario, to Mary Waddington Fisher and Clancy Clare Fisher, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Assumption University of Windsor in 1963. He started Cross Canada Books, a distribution company for Canadian books, which he ran from 1975 to 2005. He and geographer John Koegler published two books: Canada’s Changing Landscape and Canada’s Modern Landscape. In local business, he led the Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area (2005) and the Yonge Bloor Bay Association (2013–2016). He ran two local blogs: Cabbagetown News (2007–2012) and Cabbagetown Neighbourhood Review (from 2012). Fisher has been married three times: Christine Purden (1970–1975), Barbara Jacob (1978; later divorced), and Irene DeClute (2012).