Summary
David Samuel Horne MacDonald PC (born August 20, 1936) is a Canadian United Church of Canada minister, former politician, and author.
David MacDonald | |
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| Secretary of State for Canada | |
| In office June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980 | |
| Prime Minister | Joe Clark |
| Preceded by | John Roberts |
| Succeeded by | Francis Fox |
| Minister of Communications | |
| In office June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980 | |
| Prime Minister | Joe Clark |
| Preceded by | Jeanne Sauvé |
| Succeeded by | Francis Fox |
| Minister responsible for the Status of Women | |
| In office June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980 | |
| Prime Minister | Joe Clark |
| Preceded by | Marc Lalonde |
| Succeeded by | Lloyd Axworthy |
| Member of Parliament for Rosedale | |
| In office November 21, 1988 – October 25, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | David Crombie |
| Succeeded by | Bill Graham |
| Member of Parliament for Egmont (Prince; 1965–1968) | |
| In office November 8, 1965 – February 18, 1980 | |
| Preceded by | John Watson MacNaught |
| Succeeded by | George Henderson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | David Samuel Horne MacDonald August 20, 1936 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| Political party | New Democratic (1996–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Progressive Conservative (until 1996) |
| Spouses | Sandrabelle Rogers
(m. 1964–1997)Deborah Sinclair (m. 2005) |
| Domestic partner | Alexa McDonough (1997-2004) |
| Occupation | United Church minister, politician |
Early life edit
Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, David MacDonald was ordained in the United Church by the Maritime Conference on June 11, 1961, and was a minister at Alberton, Tignish, and Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island before going into federal politics.
Political career edit
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from the former Prince Edward Island riding of Prince in the 1965 election, and was re-elected in the realigned Egmont riding from 1968 until 1979.[1]
After the Tory victory in the 1979 election, he was appointed Minister of Communications, Minister responsible for the Status of Women and Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark.
MacDonald lost his seat to Liberal George Henderson in the 1980 election but returned to the House as MP in the Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1988 election, replacing former Toronto Mayor and PC incumbent David Crombie.
However, he lost his seat again to a Liberal majority government in the 1993 election, this time to Bill Graham. Two other notable candidates ran against MacDonald in this election: future New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton, and magician Doug Henning for the Natural Law Party of Canada.
MacDonald also spent time in Africa between parliamentary duties.
MacDonald had a reputation as a Red Tory and subsequently switched his political allegiance to the social democratic New Democratic Party of Canada. He ran as the NDP candidate in his old riding (now called Toronto Centre-Rosedale) in the 1997 election, but was defeated again by Graham.
After politics edit
On November 25, 1998, The United Church of Canada appointed MacDonald a Special Advisor on residential schools, in light of major lawsuits against the UCC from former students.
Personal life edit
MacDonald was romantically involved with Alexa McDonough who at the time was leader of the federal NDP, prior to his 1997 candidacy.[2] However, they split up prior to the 2004 federal election.[3] MacDonald has since started another relationship and married.[3]
Electoral record edit
Toronto Centre—Rosedale edit
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Graham | 22,945 | 49.19 | -0.80 | ||||
| New Democratic | David MacDonald | 9,597 | 20.58 | +9.80 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Stephen Probyn | 8,993 | 19.28 | -1.96 | ||||
| Reform | John Stewart | 3,646 | 7.82 | -4.65 | ||||
| Green | Jim Harris | 577 | 1.24 | +0.30 | ||||
| Canadian Action | Anthony Robert Pedrette | 303 | 0.65 | |||||
| Natural Law | Ron Parker | 270 | 0.58 | -1.01 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Steve Rutchinski | 166 | 0.36 | +0.25 | ||||
| Independent | Ted W. Culp | 145 | 0.31 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 46,642 | 100.00 | ||||||
Rosedale edit
| 1993 Canadian federal election: Rosedale | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Bill Graham | 27,707 | 49.98 | – | $54,087 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 12,018 | 21.68 | $60,961 | ||||
| Reform | Daniel Jovkovic | 7,048 | 12.71 | $25,016 | ||||
| New Democratic Party | Jack Layton | 5,937 | 10.71 | $44,872 | ||||
| National | Martin Lanigan | 1,091 | 1.97 | $6,964 | ||||
| Natural Law | Doug Henning | 839 | 1.51 | $37,086 | ||||
| Green | Leslie Hunter | 479 | 0.86 | $380 | ||||
| N/A (Christian Freedom) | Linda Dale Gibbons | 214 | 0.39 | $200 | ||||
| Marxist-Leninist | Steve Rutchinski | 61 | 0.11 | $205 | ||||
| Abolitionist | Y. Patrice d'Audibert-Garcien | 43 | 0.08 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 55,437 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 491 | |||||||
| Turnout | 55,928 | 61.71 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 90,630 | |||||||
| Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 22,704 | 41.36 | -11.44 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Graham | 22,624 | 41.21 | +15.08 | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Wilson | 8,266 | 15.06 | -2.77 | ||||
| Libertarian | Chris Blatchly | 411 | 0.75 | +0.09 | ||||
| Green | Frank de Jong | 397 | 0.72 | -1.15 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Liane McLarty | 265 | 0.48 | |||||
| Independent | Mike Constable | 102 | 0.19 | |||||
| Independent | Harry Margel | 91 | 0.17 | |||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Paul Therrien | 33 | 0.06 | -0.27 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 54,893 | 100.00 | ||||||
Egmont edit
| 1980 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | George Henderson | 8,639 | 52.37 | +12.93 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 7,033 | 42.63 | -13.44 | ||||
| New Democratic | Vincent Gallant | 824 | 5.00 | +0.51 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 16,496 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1979 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 8,861 | 56.07 | +3.82 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Reese | 6,233 | 39.44 | -4.81 | ||||
| New Democratic | Vincent Gallant | 710 | 4.49 | +0.98 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 15,804 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1974 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 7,583 | 52.25 | -3.53 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Reese | 6,422 | 44.25 | +3.97 | ||||
| New Democratic | Cletus Shea | 509 | 3.51 | -0.04 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 14,514 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1972 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 7,868 | 55.78 | +2.26 | ||||
| Liberal | George W. Olscamp | 5,681 | 40.28 | -4.02 | ||||
| New Democratic | Carroll L. Kadey | 501 | 3.55 | +1.37 | ||||
| Social Credit | Hugh G. Ryan | 55 | 0.39 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,105 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1968 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 7,182 | 53.52 | |||||
| Liberal | J. Melville Campbell | 5,945 | 44.30 | |||||
| New Democratic | Harvey Dawson | 292 | 2.18 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 13,419 | 100.00 | ||||||
Prince edit
| 1965 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 9,082 | ||||||
| Liberal | John Watson MacNaught | 8,312 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Harvey Dawson | 384 | ||||||
Archives edit
There is a David S.H. MacDonald fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[4]
Notes edit
- ^ "Parliament of Canada, Parliamentarian File". Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
- ^ Sheppard, Robert (April 14, 1997). "You call that endurance?". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. A13.
- ^ a b Ottawa Citizen Staff (October 4, 2008). "Alexa McDonough reflects on time and change as she eases into life after politics: So how are you feeling?". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
- ^ "David S.H. MacDonald fonds, Library and Archives Canada". Retrieved September 9, 2020.
External links edit
- David MacDonald (Canadian politician) – Parliament of Canada biography
- United Church of Canada's appointment as Special Advisor for Residential Schools
