Barbara McDougall
| Barbara McDougall link Sourcewatch (Politician,deep state operative) | |
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| Born | November 12, 1937 Toronto, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Party | Conservative |
Canadian member of CFR's Global Board of Advisors, attended he 1993 Bilderberg as Canada/Secretary of State for External Affairs. Atlantic Storm participant | |
Barbara Jean McDougall was a Canadian politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1993, and as Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1991 to 1993. She did not run again in the 1993 Canadian federal election which saw the incumbent Progressive Conservative government reduced to two seats in the House of Commons.
She was President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs between 1999 and 2004. She attended the 1993 Bilderberg meeting and the 2005 Atlantic Storm pandemic exercise. She is on the Board of the spooky Global Panel Foundation and on the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Education
McDougall received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in political science and economics in 1963.
Government and political experience
McDougall was a member of parliament from St. Paul's (Toronto) for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1984 to 1993. At the Cabinet table she was a vocal proponent of free choice for women in the abortion debate.[1] She based her opposition to Senate reform partly on the fact that this institution is responsible for the state of abortion law in Canada at present.[2]
McDougall has remained active in conservative political circles. She was a member of the Red Tory Council and supported auto-parts magnate Belinda Stronach's campaign to become leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada in winter 2004.
On December 18, 2006 it was announced that she would be appointed as a panelist on the Internal Trade Implementation Act for a period of five years.
Other career
McDougall has previously been an advisor for Toronto law firm Aird & Berlis LLP where she counsels clients on matters of international business development, corporate governance and government relations.
She is the Chair of Global Panel America[3] and a member of the (spooky) Global Panel Foundation's worldwide Supervisory board. She has been a Canadian representative to the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. and The International Crisis Group in Brussels, Belgium.
A Scotiabank director from 1999 to 2008, she sat on the Audit and Conduct Review Committee and the Human Resources Committee. She had previously beenChair of the Conduct Review/Pension Committee.
McDougall also was on the board of Stelco Inc. and the Independent Order of Foresters. She is currently a director of Unique Solutions Design Ltd.
She has worked as a business reporter for the Vancouver Sun, an analyst for Odlum Brown and at brokerage firm A.E. Ames, where she became the company's first female vice president.
From October 2004 to March 2010 McDougall served on the Board of Directors of Imperial Tobacco Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of British American Tobacco. In that capacity she chaired the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of Imperial Tobacco Canada.[4]
In 2000 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Controversial position at IDRC
In December 2007 McDougall was appointed Chair of the board of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)[5]. Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett criticized her appointment as Chair of IDRC because of the conflict of interest it created between her role as director of a tobacco company and chair of an agency funding tobacco control efforts.[6][7] The press release announcing her appointment did not mention her ongoing directorship of Imperial Tobacco.[8] It is also omitted this from her bio on the IDRC website.[9] As a result of this serious conflict of interest, a major tobacco control coordination meeting in Africa funded by IDRC was boycotted by its participants[10] and the Gates Foundation pulled US$5 million of tobacco control funding from IDRC in April 2010.[11][12]
References
- ↑ 17 Nov 2013 Toronto Star: "Mulroney-era cabinet documents reveal struggle to replace abortion law thrown out by court"
- ↑ 25 Oct 2013: "Why the Senate should be rebuilt, not abolished" Globe and Mail
- ↑ http://globalpanel.net
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110716191751/http://www.bat.com/group/sites/UK__3MNFEN.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/82288887044AD66CC1257460003626D9/$FILE/canada_social_reprt.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080313024911/http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110804085123/http://www.liberal.ca/newsroom/news-release/conservatives-put-canadas-tobacco-control-leadership-in-disrepute/
- ↑ https://www.who.int/entity/fctc/guidelines/article_5_3.pdf
- ↑ http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-communiques/2007/385666.aspx?lang=en
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120318032710/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/AboutUs/Governance/Pages/DetailedBoardOfGovernors.aspx?ProfileID=11
- ↑ http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/19/3/175.full
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110706212202/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/statement-on-idrc-grant-100412.aspx
- ↑ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/douglas-bell/memo-to-barbara-mcdougall-resign/article1533258/
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