Barbara McDougall

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Barbara Jean McDougall PC OC (birth name: Barbara Jean Leaman ; born November 12, 1937 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Tories).

biography

After attending school, McDougall studied political science and economics at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). She began her federal political career as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1984 with the election to the House of Commons , to which she belonged as a representative of the constituency of St. Paul's until 1993.

Immediately after the Tories' electoral success, she was also appointed Minister of State to the Treasury Secretary by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in September 1984 . From 1986 to 1988 she was not only Minister of State for Privatization, but also Minister responsible for the status of women from 1986 to 1988.

On March 31, 1988, she was then appointed by Mulroney as Minister for Employment and Immigration in his cabinet and held this office until April 20, 1991. During this time she was minister responsible for the status of women between 1988 and 1990 and in 1990 she was minister of state for youth for some time. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Mulroney appointed her on April 21, 1991 to succeed Joe Clark as Secretary of State . She held this office until the end of Mulroney's tenure on June 24, 1993.

In the 1993 general election , Barbara McDougall, who was also a member of the Canadian Privy Council , lost her seat in parliament, then withdrew from politics and switched to the private sector . In addition to being an advisor to the law firm Aird & Bells in Toronto, she was also a director of Scotiabank between 1999 and 2008 . Most recently she was a board member of Imperial Tobacco Canada from October 2004 to March 2010 . After becoming a board member of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) in January 2007 , she has been chairman of the board of this research center since December 2007.

For her services, she was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000.

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  1. ^ Homepage of Aird & Bells LLP ( Memento of January 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Homepage of the IDRC ( Memento of June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME McDougall, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDougall, Barbara Jean (full name); Leaman, Barbara Jean (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician (Progressive Conservative Party of Canada)
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario