David Anderson (British Columbia politician)

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The Honourable
David A. Anderson
PC OC OBC
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Minister of the Environment
In office
August 3, 1999 –July 20, 2004
Men's rowing
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Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1960 Rome Eight

David A. Anderson, PC OC OBC (born August 16, 1937) is a former Canadian cabinet minister. [1]

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Early life

Anderson was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He was educated at Victoria College, Aiglon College and at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law; he graduated in 1962 with a LLB. During his UBC days Anderson won a silver medal for rowing in the 1960 Olympic Games, and a silver medal in the Pan American Games in Chicago in 1959. [2] He was also a pilot in the University Reserve of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Career

Civil servant

Anderson served as a foreign service officer in the Department of External Affairs between 1962 and 1968. His posts included Indochina (International Supervisory And Truce Commissions) 1963–64, Assistant Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, 1964–1967, and China Desk Officer in Ottawa 1967–68. In Hong Kong, Anderson attended the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Hong Kong and obtained the British Foreign Officer Higher Standard Certificate in Mandarin.

Member of Parliament

He was elected Liberal MP for the constituency of Esquimalt—Saanich on Vancouver Island in the 1968 federal election. Four years later he switched to provincial politics, and was elected leader of the provincial Liberal Party (April 1972), then the third party in the provincial legislature with 5 out of 55 seats.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Although elected himself in the 1972 election, representing the constituency of Victoria, the Liberal Party did not increase its seat total. Anderson served as Member of the Legislative Assembly until his defeat in December 1975. [3]

During this period of elected office Anderson was prominent in representing Canadian concerns over offshore oil drilling, pipeline developments in Northern Canada, and oil tanker traffic between Alaska and the Lower 48 states.

Academia

Between 1976 and 1984, Anderson worked as an environmental consultant and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria's School of Administration, where he taught in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, and environmental policy. His environmental work focused on coastal and wetland protection and marine pollution from oil exploration and transportation.

Anderson was appointed as a member of the Immigration Appeal Board for a 10-year term in 1984. He served from March 1, 1984, until December 31, 1988, when the board was dissolved.

Member of Parliament

In the 1993 federal general election to the 35th Canadian Parliament Anderson re-entered elected politics. He was elected MP for Victoria and retained this position for three subsequent elections, ending when he retired from politics in January 2006. During this period, he served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as Minister of National Revenue (1993–95), Minister of Transport (1995–97), Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (1997–99) and Minister of the Environment (1999-2006). He also was appointed the regional political minister for British Columbia, which he retained until 2002.

Anderson's time in the fisheries portfolio was marked by considerable controversy with the commercial fishing industry as he worked for strict conservation measures to protect fish stocks. These measures included a complete ban on the killing of Coho salmon. After six years of previous failures, he succeeded in getting an agreement with the United States under the Pacific Salmon Treaty to conserve salmon stocks and to end the destructive competitive fishing by the US and Canadian commercial fleets. [4]

In the cabinet shuffle of 1999 midway through the 36th Canadian Parliament, Chrétien appointed Anderson Environment Minister. He served in that post for the following five years, making him the longest serving Canadian environment minister. In this period Anderson's work largely centered on the Rio Summit conventions on biodiversity and climate change.

Anderson implemented the Government of Canada Action Plan 2000 on Climate Change in tandem with Paul Martin's 2000 Canadian federal budget. [5]

Anderson retained his seat in the 37th Canadian Parliament and was successful in getting the Species at Risk Act passed by Parliament and signed into law (2004). and, despite strong objections from the governments of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario and the federal Official Opposition, in securing Canadian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in December 2002. Other initiatives involved improving air and water quality and established improved federal provincial cooperation on environmental issues.

In international work, Anderson was the first Canadian elected as president of the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme, a post he held for two years. He took a prominent part in the G8 and OECD Environment Minister's meetings. Anderson was dropped from cabinet by Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2004 and did not run in the 2006 election.

Retirement from politics

In February 2007, he was named director of the Guelph Institute for the Environment, from which he retired in 2010. [6]

Awards

Anderson has received a number of environmental awards, including the John Fraser Award for Environmental Achievement from the Sierra Club of Canada (2005), [7] the Dr. Andrew Thompson Award from West Coast Environmental Law for his lifetime contributions to the environment and sustainability in British Columbia (2004), and the 50th anniversary International Conservation Award (1998) from the Atlantic Salmon Federation.

He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in laws by the University of Victoria in 2007, [8] and an honorary doctorate of science from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2009. [9] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010 [10] and named to the Order of British Columbia in 2018. [11]

Family

Anderson is married with two children.

Archives

There is a David Anderson fonds at Library and Archives Canada. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Honourable David A. Anderson". ourcommons.ca. House of Commons Canada. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Olympedia – David Anderson". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  3. ↑ "David Anderson". historyproject.allard.ubc.ca. Peter A. Allard School of Law. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Honourable David A. Anderson". gg.ca. The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "Information archivée dans le Web" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Former Federal Minister to Lecture on Science, Public Policy". uoguelph.ca. University of Guelph. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources". sencanada.ca. Senate of Canada. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "Communications + Marketing - University of Victoria".
  9. ↑ "Wilfrid Laurier University - University Secretariat - Senate - Docume…". Archived from the original on 15 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada
  11. ↑ "B.C.'s highest honour recognizes 14 outstanding citizens," retrieved 16 Aug 2018 at https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018IGRS0009-001495/; Bill Cleverley, "Three Greater Victorians named to Order of British Columbia," Times Colonist, posted 4 Aug 2018, retrieved 16 Aug 2018 at https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/three-greater-victorians-named-to-order-of-british-columbia-1.23390054/ Archived 2019-10-23 at the Wayback Machine .
  12. ↑ "David Anderson fonds, Library and Archives Canada". 25 November 2016.
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