Donald Fleming
Donald Methuen Fleming PC QC (born May 23, 1905 in Exeter , Ontario , † December 31, 1986 in Toronto ) was a Canadian lawyer , university professor and politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house for seventeen years and a minister for several years was.
Life
Lawyer, Member of the House of Commons and unsuccessful candidacies as party chairman
After attending school, Fleming first completed an undergraduate degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed a law degree with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and worked as a barrister after being admitted to the bar . Dorion began his political career in local politics when he was a member of the Toronto City Council between 1939 and 1944. For his lawyer's merits, he later became Attorney-General ( Queen's Counsel appointed).
Fleming was elected as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the general election of June 11, 1945 in the Eglinton constituency , and was a member of the House of Representatives for more than seventeen years until April 7, 1963, after he stood for the general election on June 8 , 1963 April 1963 had not run again.
After John Bracken's resignation as chairman of the Progressive Conservative Party, Fleming applied for his successor at the party congress on October 2, 1948, but was defeated by the previous Prime Minister of Ontario George A. Drew . After Drew had resigned again on November 29, 1956 as party chairman, he ran again for this office. However, he was again defeated in his efforts, namely at the party congress on December 14, 1956 against John Diefenbaker .
During the so-called pipeline debate in May 1956 he was unjustifiably called to order by the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Louis-René Beaudoin , and was finally excluded from further participation in the debate. The pipeline debate from May 8 to June 6, 1956, was one of the most famous confrontations in Canadian parliamentary history, after the decision of CD Howe , Minister of Commerce and Industry in the liberal 17th Canadian government under Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent that a pipeline to transport natural gas from Alberta to central Canada is a national necessity.
minister
On June 21, 1957, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker appointed him Treasurer and Treasurer of Canada's 18th Cabinet and held this position until August 8, 1962. His tenure as Treasury Secretary was marked by disputes over the Diefenbaker government's monetary and fiscal policy with then Governor of the Bank of Canada , James Coyne . In particular, Coyne's strict rejection of the government's expansionist monetary policy irritated not only Fleming, but also numerous leading economists, who had signed an open letter demanding Coyne's resignation. Coyne initially rejected this, but eventually resigned on July 13, 1961 after facing a parliamentary demand to resign.
As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Fleming then succeeded Davie Fulton as Attorney General and Attorney General on August 8, 1962 and retained these offices until the end of Diefenbaker's tenure on April 21, 1963.
At the party convention of the Progressive Conservative Party on September 9, 1967, he was one of John Diefenbaker's opponents, but ultimately lost to Robert Stanfield , who was Prime Minister of Nova Scotia , and other opponents.
He then finally withdrew from political life and worked as a lawyer again.
literature
- Donald M. Fleming , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1958 of September 15, 1958, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pipeline Debate . Article in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ↑ James Elliott Coyne . Article in The Canadian Encyclopedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fleming, Donald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fleming, Donald Methuen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Exeter , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1986 |
| Place of death | Toronto |