david macdonald

Rev. David Samuel Horne MacDonald (born August 20 1936) is a United Church of Canada minister and a former Canadian politician. David MacDonald was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative MP from his native Prince Edward Island in the 1965 Canadian election. With the Tory victory in the 1979 Candian election he became Minister of Communications, Minister responsible for the Status of Women and Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived Cabinet of Joe Clark. MacDonald lost his seat in the 1980 Canadian election but returned, this time as MP for the Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1988 Canadian election. MacDonald again lost his seat in the 1993 Canadian election. MacDonald had always had a reputation as a Red Tory. Subsequent to his defeat he became romantically involved with Alexa McDonough, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. He subsequently switched his political allegiance to the NDP and ran as the NDP candidate in his old riding (now called Toronto Centre-Rosedale) in the 1997 Canadian election but was defeated by Bill Graham. MacDonald, David MacDonald, David

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