Walter David Baker

Walter David Baker PC QC (born August 22, 1930 in Ottawa , Ontario ; † November 13, 1983 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the House of Commons for eleven years and between 1979 and 1980 Minister for National Income in the 21st Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark was.

Life

After attending school, Baker completed a law degree and then worked as a solicitor and lawyer . For its legal merits, he eventually became the Attorney-General (Queen's Counsel) appointed.

In the election of October 30, 1972 , he was elected as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and first represented the constituency of Grenville-Carlton and then from the election of May 22, 1979 until his death on November 13, 1983 the constituency of Nepean-Carleton . During this time he was between September 21, 1974 and February 24, 1976 deputy chairman and then from February 25, 1976 to March 26, 1979 chairman of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Conservative Party in the lower house and was thus opposition leader .

On June 4, 1979 he was appointed by Prime Minister Joe Clark as Minister for National Income and President of the Canadian Privy Council in the 21st Cabinet of Canada, which he served until the end of Clark's tenure on March 2, 1980. As such, he was also the leader of the government in the House of Commons between October 9 and December 14, 1979. In addition, from July 1979 to March 1980 he was chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Legislation and Planning of the House of Commons and of the Special Cabinet Committee for the Privy Council, and Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on the Economy of Government.

After the election defeat in the general election of February 18, 1980 , he acted again between April 14, 1980 and September 8, 1981 as chairman of the PC parliamentary group and opposition leader in the lower house. Subsequently, from September 9, 1981 until his death in 1983, he was spokesman for his parliamentary group for the Treasury and between 1983 and his death also spokesman for the PC parliamentary group for the Privy Council and government operations. At the same time, from April 14, 1980 until his death, he was also vice-chairman of the special committee for ethics and rules of procedure.

publication

• Shaping the future: Canada in a global society: 1978 conference proceedings , editor, Ottawa, Center for Policy and Management Studies, 1979

Web links and sources

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament