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Vern White
Catherine Clark spoke to Vernon White about his life Beyond Politics. Mr. White grew up in the small Cape Breton community of Scotchtown where his father worked in the nearby coal mines. His father was careful to steer his five children away from a job in the mines, and Mr. White chose to become a police officer and began a career with the RCMP that he came to appreciate as a calling and not an occupation. Mr. White spent his first years policing in Newfoundland and Labrador, and after being stationed in the remote community of Nain, fell in love with the North and spent the next 19 years there ending up as the Commanding Officer for Nunavut. Eventually, Mr. White left the RCMP and moved back down south to assume the responsibilities as Chief of Police for Durham Region, and later the City of Ottawa. In 2012, Mr. White was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.