David Johnston

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David Johnston in July 2007
Signature of David Johnston

David Lloyd Johnston , CC (born June 28, 1941 in Sudbury ) is a Canadian legal scholar and author. Johnston was the 28th Governor General of Canada from October 1, 2010 to October 1, 2017 . He was previously Rector of McGill University and President of the University of Waterloo .

biography

Johnston, the son of the owner of a housewares store, attended school in Sault St. Marie . He studied law at Harvard University and graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts . While at Harvard, he was the captain of Harvard Crimson , the university's ice hockey team; twice he was accepted into the All-American team. He became friends with Erich Segal - the character Davey in Segal's bestselling novel Love Story is based on Johnston.

In 1965 Johnston graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Laws , and the following year from Queen's University in Kingston . In 1966 he began working as an assistant professor at Queen's University and two years later moved to the University of Toronto , where he became a full-time professor. From 1974 to 1979 he served as the Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Western Ontario . This was followed by the appointment as rector of McGill University in Montreal . After a fifteen-year tenure, he remained there as a law professor until the University of Waterloo appointed him its president in 1999. His scientific publications deal with financial market regulation , corporate law , public policy and the law in the field of information technology . Johnston is married and has five daughters.

On television, Johnston hosted various political debates, first before the 1979 general election in the debate between party leaders Pierre Trudeau , Joe Clark and Ed Broadbent . Five years later, he led the debate between Brian Mulroney , John Turner and Ed Broadbent ahead of the 1984 general election . In 1987 he led the debate between David Peterson , Bob Rae and Larry Grossman before the Ontario provincial election . From the late 1980s, Johnston headed several commissions on behalf of federal and provincial governments, primarily in the area of ​​information technology. He has also served on the boards of several companies, including Fairfax Financial , CGI , Spar Aerospace , Seagram and Canada Trust .

On July 8, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Queen Elizabeth II had accepted his proposal to appoint Johnston Governor General. On October 1, 2010, he succeeded Michaëlle Jean .

Major works

  • Cases and Materials on Corporate Finance and Securities Law (1967)
  • Computers and Law (1968)
  • Cases and Materials on Company Law (1969)
  • Cases and Materials on Securities Law (1971)
  • Business Associations (1979)
  • Canadian Companies and the Stock Exchange (1980)
  • Canadian Securities Regulation (1982, 2003, 2006)
  • Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations , Volumes 1 and 2 (1983, 1989, 1992)
  • If Quebec Goes… The Real Cost of Separation (1995)
  • Getting Canada On-line: Understanding the Information Highway (1995)
  • Cyberlaw (1997)
  • Communications in Law in Canada (2000)
  • Halsbury's Law of Canada (2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Johnston Canada's next GG - Attended high school in Sault. (No longer available online.) The Sault Star, July 9, 2010, archived from the original on December 9, 2012 ; accessed on August 3, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saultstar.com
  2. ^ Next governor-general unveiled. The Globe and Mail , July 8, 2010, accessed August 3, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Johnston Believes In nobility of public life. Toronto Star , November 15, 2007, accessed August 3, 2010 .
  4. ↑ PM taps university president as Mulroney inquiry adviser. CBC News, November 14, 2007, accessed August 3, 2010 .
  5. ^ Academic, athletic David Johnston next Gov. Gene. Toronto Star, July 8, 2010, accessed August 3, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Johnston, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnston, David Lloyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer and governor general
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudbury