Flora macdonald politician biography of michael
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‘I wrote it because Canadians have forgotten Flora MacDonald’: Geoffrey Stevens
Geoffrey Stevens and Flora MacDonald's book, Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World, is one of the best political books published in 2021 in Canada. Stevens says he wrote the book because he wants people to remember MacDonald, who was the most influential woman in Canadian political life in her time (mid-1960s to late-1980s). An excerpt is published here. The book is a finalist for this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Flora MacDonald, pictured in 2010 and who died in 2015, was Canada's first female foreign affairs minister. Geoffrey Stevens says MacDonald's final decades were remarkable. 'This high-profile cabinet minister disappeared from public view. She became an unpaid volunteer working in refugee camps in Africa and Asia, in an international campaign to preserve the watersheds of the great rivers of Tibet, and as a teacher and builder of schools an
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Michael IGNATIEFF
Mr. Michael Ignatieff (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.)
Mr. Speaker, inom rise to add a few words from this side of the House, in recognition of your public service and your work as Speaker of the House.
You have commanded the respect and affection of the whole House. Despite the divisions that are obvious in this chamber, I think it is easy for this side of the House to subscribe in its entirety to the kind words offered by the government House leader.
I want to add a few personal notes. One of the things that I noticed about your biography is that you began to subscribe to Hansard at the age of 16. In many other people this would be regarded as an alarming propensity, but that propensity has been only to the good of this House. Your knowledge, love and affection for the traditions of this House have guided you well and you obviously began your understanding of them at a very early age.
You left a very prestigious legal career to enter politics. You entered the H
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Front matter
Macdonald, Flora and Stevens, Geoffrey. "Front matter". Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021, pp. i-vii. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228009009-fm
Macdonald, F. & Stevens, G. (2021). Front matter. In Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World (pp. i-vii). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228009009-fm
Macdonald, F. and Stevens, G. 2021. Front matter. Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. i-vii. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228009009-fm
Macdonald, Flora and Stevens, Geoffrey. "Front matter" In Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World, i-vii. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228009009-fm
Macdonald F, Stevens G. Front matter. In: Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2021. p.i-vii. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228009009-fm
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