Don Johnston
Donald "Don" James Johnston PC OC QC ( born June 26, 1936 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian lawyer, author and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, the number of years a Member of the House of Commons, as well as temporarily Minister between 1996 and 2006 Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD) was.
Life
Lawyer, Member of the House of Commons and Minister
After schooling Johnston studied at McGill University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Another study of law at McGill University, he finished in 1958 with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL ). He took in 1961 to work as a lawyer in the law firm Stikeman Elliott and co-founded the law firm Heenan Blaikie Johnston. In addition, he was 1964-1977 Lecturer in Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of McGill University.
On October 16, 1978 Johnston was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party in a by-election in the constituency of Westmount as an MP in the House of Commons and represented in this then since the general election of 22 May 1979 to the election on 21 November 1988, the constituency of Saint- Henri- Westmount. Early in his career, he was Member of 9 October to December 14, 1979 briefly Chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
On 3 March 1980 Johnston was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as president of the Treasury in the 22 Canadian Cabinet and held that office until September 29, 1982. Subsequently, he was from 30 September 1982 to June 29, 1984 Minister of State for science and technology and at the same time until December 6, 1983 Minister of State for Economic Development or from 7 December 1983 to the end of Trudeau's term of office on June 29, 1984 Minister of State for Economic and regional Development.
Following the resignation Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party Johnston was at the party on June 16, 1984 among the successor Kandidate and reached on the first ballot with 278 delegate votes in third place among the seven candidates. In the second ballot response was to John Turner with 1862 delegates' votes (54 percent) clearly against Jean Chrétien ( 1398 votes and 40 percent) and him (192 votes and 6 percent) by.
After Turner was also Trudeau's successor as Prime Minister on 30 June 1984 that he was appointed on 30 June to 16 September 1984 as Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the 23 Government of Canada.
Opposition politicians and OECD Secretary-General
After the electoral defeat of the Liberal Party in the general election on September 4, 1984 Johnston first took over from October 11th to March 1986, the office of Speaker of the liberal opposition faction of Finance and at the same time from 1 January 1985 to 7 May 1987 on Foreign Affairs. In January 1988 he first stepped out of the Liberal Party from before he again whose member was in early 1990.
Between June 1990 and May 1, 1994 was 23 Johnston, also the honorary degree in the subjects of Civil Law (DCL ( Hon ) ) and economics ( D.Econ. ( Hon )) were awarded, president of the Liberal Party of Canada.
1996 Johnston became the first non-European successor to Jean -Claude Paye as Secretary General of (OECD) and has held this function for ten years until his replacement by José Ángel Gurría on 31 May 2006.
In 2006, the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross Slovakia, he was awarded. For his many years of service as a lawyer and politician, he was also appointed on 10 April 2008 Officer of the Order of Canada. In addition, the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honour, he was awarded.
Publications
- Fiscalamity: how to survive Canada's tax chaos, Don Mills 1974
- How to survive Canada's tax chaos, Markham 1977
- Government and business: a personal perspective, Ottawa 1982
- Up the hill, Montreal 1986
- With a bang, not a whimper: Pierre Trudeau speaks out, Toronto 1988
- Pierre Trudeau speaks out on Meech Lake, Toronto 1990