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Canadian politician
John McDermid
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In office
1979?1988
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Preceded by
| First member
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Succeeded by
| Riding dissolved
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In office
1988?1993
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Preceded by
| First member
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Succeeded by
| Colleen Beaumier
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Born
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1940-03-17
)
March 17, 1940
(age 84)
Hamilton
,
Ontario
, Canada
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Political party
| Progressive Conservative
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Residence
| Brampton
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Profession
| Marketing manager
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John Horton McDermid
,
PC
,
FRI
(born March 17, 1940) is a former
Canadian
politician.
McDermid worked in marketing, public relations and broadcasting before entered politics. He was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada
in the
1979 federal election
as the
Progressive Conservative
Member of Parliament
for
Brampton?Georgetown
outside of
Toronto
, Ontario.
He was re-elected in the
1980
,
1984
and
1988 elections
.
[1]
[2]
He became a
parliamentary secretary
when the Tories took power in 1984. From 1988 to 1993, he served in the
Cabinet
of
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
as series of junior minister positions:
Minister of State
for Housing (1988?1989), International Trade
[3]
(1988-1989), Privatization and Regulatory Affairs (1989?1991), and Finance and Privatization (1991?1993).
He left Cabinet with the departure of Mulroney as Prime Minister of Canada in June 1993, and did not run in the
1993 federal election
.
[4]
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