John Roberts (politician, 1933)

John Moody Roberts PC (born November 28, 1933 in Hamilton , Ontario , † March 30, 2007 in Toronto , Ontario) was a Canadian political scientist and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada . He was a member of the lower house and a minister several times .

Life

After attending school, Roberts completed a degree, which he initially completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and later with a Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course at the University of Oxford in 1967 with a Doctor of Philosophy ( D.Phil. ) With a dissertation on The liberty of the individual: a comparison of the views of Wilhelm von Humboldt, John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hill Green . He then worked as a professor and management consultant.

In the general election of June 25, 1968 , he was elected for the first time as a member of the lower house as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the constituency of York-Simcoe , but lost his mandate in the subsequent general election on October 30, 1972 . In his first legislative term, from September 1968 to October 1969, he was both chairman of the sub-committee for the United Nations and peace missions belonging to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense and of the special committee for the legislative procedure for the official language. During this time he was last from October 1970 to September 1972 also Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Regional Economic Development.

On July 8, 1974 Fox was in the general election re-elected as deputies, and represented this time until his re-election defeat in the elections of May 22, 1979 the constituency of St. Paul's . During this time he was appointed to the 20th cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on September 14, 1976 as Secretary of State for Canada , to which he was a member until June 3, 1979.

In the general election of February 18, 1980 , he was finally re-elected as a member of the constituency of St. Paul’s and belonged to the lower house until he was again defeated in the election of September 4, 1984 . Prime Minister Trudeau then appointed him to the 22nd Cabinet on March 3, 1980 , where he was first Environment Minister and finally Minister for Employment and Immigration from August 12, 1983 to September 16, 1984. At the same time, Fox was Minister of State for Science and Technology from March 3, 1980 to September 29, 1982.

At the party convention of the Liberal Party, he unsuccessfully applied to succeed Trudeau for the office of party chairman, but was defeated in the first ballot to John Turner , who was able to prevail against Jean Chrétien in the second ballot .

Most recently, Fox ran again for a seat in the House of Commons in the election of November 21, 1988 in the Ontario constituency , but this time again suffered an electoral defeat.

Fox then took on professorships in political and administrative sciences at Concordia University in Montreal and Brock University in St. Catharines and was also a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.

Publications

• The liberty of the individual: a comparison of the views of Wilhelm von Humboldt, John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hill Green , Dissertation (D.Phil), Oxford University Press, 1967.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage