officers and the introduction of early education programs. It also allocated $4.5 million for community-based pilot projects against drug abuse. In June 1990, heannounced that this funding would be targeted to projects in nine communities. Black was critical of the federal Goods and Services Tax introduced by the government of Brian Mulroney, arguing that it would put Ontario's tourism sector at risk of losing jobs and revenue. Tourism in Ontario declined in this period, due in large part to a continental economic downtown. Black travelled to Paris in December 1989 to support Toronto's bid to host Expo 2000. Toronto lost the bid Hanover, West Germany. Black's time in cabinet was brief. The Liberals suffered an upset loss to the New Democratic Party in the 1990 provincial election, and Black finished third in his bid for re-election. In 1991-92, he was chief organizer for Charles Beer's unsuccessful bid to succeed Peterson as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. He attempted to return to the provincial legislature in the 1995 election, but finished well behind Progressive Conservative candidate Bill Grimmett. Cabinet positions Later life Black later served as president of the Muskoka Heritage Foundation, and founded the Muskoka Watershed Council in 2001. He was appointed as a director of the Toront03 Alliance in July 2003. On August 29, 2016 he died from an undiagnosed case of acute leukemia at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, Ontario. Electoral record References Notes Citations External links 1932 births 2016 deaths Alumni of the University of Nottingham Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party MPPs University of Toronto alumni