|
| Affiliation | Independent |
|
| Name | David Kilgour |
| Address |
Edmonton, Alberta , Canada |
| Email | kilgour@parl.gc.ca |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
February 18, 1941
|
| Died | April 05, 2022
(81 years)
|
| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Apr 08, 2022 01:55am |
| Tags |
Christian -
|
| Info | The Honourable David Kilgour is a Canadian politician. Kilgour is currently an Indpendent MP in the Canadian House of Commons having left the Liberal Party of Canada on April 12, 2005. From 1979 to 1988 he represented the riding of Edmonton—Strathcona, but in 1988 he moved to the newly created riding of Edmonton Southeast which he has represented ever since.
His first attempt at election, in the 1968 federal election in the riding of Vancouver Centre as a Progressive Conservative was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1979 in Edmonton and has been a Member of Parliament ever since. In October of 1990 he, along with John Nowlan of Nova Scotia, quit the Tory party in protest over the introduction of the GST. He sat as an independent for a few months before joining the Liberals.
In April 2005 he received some media attention when he speculated about quitting the Liberal Party and joining the Conservatives due to his disgust with the sponsorship scandal, saying that the issue made Canada look like "a northern banana republic." On April 12, 2005 he announced that he was crossing the floor to sit as an independent MP.
Kilgour is a former lawyer. In government he has served as Secretary of State (Latin America and Africa), Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Privy Council, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for External Relations, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons.
He is the brother of Geills Turner, who is married to former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner. Kilgour and his sister are the nephew and niece of John McCrae, the soldier and poet who wrote In Flanders Fields.
|
 | BOOKS |
 |
|
| Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
| Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|
