Gordon, Walter Lockhart

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Gordon
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Walter Lockhart Gordon PC CC CBE (27 January 1906 – 21 March 1987) was a Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer.
    • Born in Toronto, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. L. Gordon, DSO, he was educated at Upper Canada College and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
    • Upon graduation, he joined the family accounting firm of Clarkson, Gordon and Company, in January 1927. He was a student there for four years, became a chartered accountant in early 1931, and was promoted to partner in 1935.
    • During World War II, Gordon served in the Bank of Canada and the federal Ministry of Finance. In 1946, he chaired the Royal Commission on Administrative Classifications in the Public Service.
    • From 1955 to 1957, Gordon chaired the Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects. The commission’s reports, issued in 1956 and 1957, expressed concern about growing foreign ownership in the Canadian economy, particularly in the resource sector, and made recommendations to redress the problem. The themes raised in the reports were revisited by Gordon in his government career.
    • According to Dr. Stephen Azzi, Walter Gordon is responsible for “New Nationalism” in Canada. This is the idea of supporting stronger ties with Great Britain, to prevent Canada being absorbed by United States.
    • After leaving politics in 1968, he returned to business. He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1970, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star, economist Abraham Rotstein, and University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, founded the Committee for an Independent Canada. Canadian historian Jack Granatstein argues in Yankee Go Home? that the CIC “helped to create the atmosphere in which Trudeau’s government established the Canada Development Corporation in 1971 to ‘buy back’ Canada.”
  • Third Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=12844
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