Larry Campbell (politician)

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Larry W. Campbell (born February 28, 1948 in Brantford , Ontario ) is a Canadian politician and former police officer . He was Mayor of Vancouver from 2002 to 2005 and is now a member of the Senate .

biography

From 1969 Campbell worked in Vancouver for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and from 1973 was a member of the drug search. From 1981 to 1996 he was in the Forensic Medicine of the Vancouver district operates, then to 2000 as chief coroner (chief coroner) of British Columbia . In 2002 he was elected mayor of Vancouver as a candidate for the center-left Coalition of Progressive Electors .

His electoral success was attributed to his charismatic and colorful personality. His previous work as a city coroner served as a template for the successful CBC television series Da Vinci's Inquest . Campbell, who usually appears in public with a fedora hat and long coat, was seen by many voters as the complete opposite of his predecessor Philip Owen , who had a stiff and boring image.

Campbell launched a referendum on whether Vancouver should host the 2010 Winter Olympics . He believed that the provincial government, led by Gordon Campbell (not related to him), should not make the decisions alone, but that the citizens of the city should also have their say. On February 22nd, 2002, 63.9% of the electorate voted in favor of the Olympic Winter Games in the legally non-binding referendum. Campbell, who was initially critical, changed camps and actively supported the proposal during the referendum campaign. This brought him the accusation that he based his political action solely on the current majority opinion.

Campbell, who was politically centered, fell out with the left-wing members of COPE and left the party. Together with three city council members, he founded the Vision Vancouver party in 2005 . A few months before the mayoral elections, he announced that he would not run for a second term. On August 2, 2005, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson appointed him Senator on the proposal of Prime Minister Paul Martin . In the Senate, Campbell belonged to the faction of the Liberal Party until the party chairman Justin Trudeau decided in 2014 to expel all Liberal Senate members from the parliamentary faction of the Liberal Party because they are not democratically legitimized. Campbell was a member of the now independent Senate Liberal Caucus for another two years . He joined the Independent Senators Group in December 2016 , which he left in November 2019 to join the Canadian Senators Group .

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  1. ↑ James Cudmore: Justin Trudeau removes senators from Liberal caucus. In: CBC / Radio-Canada . January 29, 2014, accessed December 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Larry W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and former police officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Brantford , Ontario