Douglas Peters

Douglas Dennison Peters, PC , Ph.D. (born March 3 1930) in Brandon, Manitoba is a Canadian banker, economist and politician.

He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 1969 where he was classmates with two other well-known Canadian economists, Arthur Donner and Robert Rabinovitch.

After serving as chief economist and senior vice-president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Peters entered politics in the 1993 election. He was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Scarborough East. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Peters to the position of Secretary of State for International Finanical Institutions. Peters retired from politics at the 1997 election.

In 1979, Douglas Peters and Arthur Donner wrote a book titled "The Monetarist Counter-revolution: A Critique of Canadian Monetary Policy, 1975-1979." Douglas Peters and David Wilfrid Peters authored an article titled "Reforming Canada's Financial Services Sector: What Needs to Follow from Bill C8," that appeared in the December 2001 issue of the Canadian Public Policy journal.

According to author Linda McQuaig, Peters took a Keynesian economic prescription to government, and decided to leave politics when he found that his views were largely ignored.