Walter L. Gordon

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Walter Lockhart Gordon , PC , CC (born January 27, 1906 in Toronto , Ontario , † March 21, 1987 ibid) was a Canadian politician .

biography

Gordon, who was originally an economic manager, gained national fame when he became chairman of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects in 1955. In its 1957 report, this Gordon Commission not only lamented the foreign influence on the Canadian economy, but also discussed the export of natural resources, called for a better educated workforce and a fairer geographical distribution of wealth in Canada. Between 1962 and 1968 he was a member of the lower house, where he represented the interests of the Liberal Party in the constituency of Davenport .

In 1963 he was appointed finance minister in his cabinet by Prime Minister Lester Pearson . He caused a stir with the submission of his first budget when he was criticized for violating household secrecy and the business lobby and the US forced him to change his promises regarding the control of foreign property in Canada. In 1965 he resigned as finance minister after the Liberal Party lost its majority in the early election to the lower house that he proposed . However, Pearson remained Prime Minister of a minority government , in which he again appointed Gordon as Minister without Portfolio in 1967 . After Pearson's term ended in June 1968, he resigned from the cabinet and returned to business.

During the 1970s he was the founder of the Committee for an Independent Canada, which was influential for nearly ten years before it dissolved.

Most recently he was Chancellor of York University in Toronto between 1973 and 1977 . A Walter L. Gordon lecture was also donated at this university in 1981.

For his services he was awarded the title Companion des Order of Canada in 1976, the highest level of the Order of Canada and Canada's highest honor for civilians. Because of this award, he was entitled to use the suffix CC . His memoirs appeared in 1977.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Postponed: Walter L. Gordon Lecture looks at architecture, memory and place  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.yorku.ca  
  2. ^ Architectural Historian Shelley Hornstein delivers the Walter L. Gordon Lecture at York University
  3. ^ Walter L. Gordon: "A political memoir", Toronto 1977, ISBN 0-7710-3440-7 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Walter L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter Lockhart Gordon, CC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1987
Place of death Toronto , Ontario