List of McMaster University people
Notable alumni -- Politics and public service
Table:
Name

Relationship

Discipline

Notability

Reference

Lincoln Alexander

Undergraduate

History & Political Economics

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Member of Parliament of Canada

[102]

Glyn Berry

Graduate

Political Science

First Canadian diplomat killed in Afghanistan while on duty

[103]

John H. Bryden

Undergraduate

History

Member of Parliament of Canada

Sheila Copps

Graduate

—

Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Member of Parliament of Canada

[104]

Gordon Howlett Dean

Graduate

Chemistry & Physics

Minister of Revenue for Ontario, Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario

[105]

Tony Dean

Graduate

Sociology

Secretary of the Cabinet for Ontario

[106]

Bob Dechert

Undergraduate

Economics

Member of Parliament of Canada

[107]

Frank Di Giorgio

Undergraduate

Mathematics

Member of the Toronto City Council

[108]

Tommy Douglas

Graduate

Sociology

Premier of Saskatchewan, leader of the New Democratic Party

[109]

Rick Goldring

Undergraduate

Economics

Mayor of Burlington, Ontario

[110]

Andrea Horwath

Undergraduate

Labour Studies

Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party

[111]

Eric Hoskins

Graduate

Medicine

Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario, co-founder and President of War Child Canada

[112]

Cam Jackson

Undergraduate

—

Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario, Mayor of Burlington, Ontario

[113]

David Johnson

Undergraduate

Mathematics

Minister of Education for Ontario, Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario, Mayor of East York

[114]

Roy Kellock

Undergraduate

—

Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

[115]

Stanley Knowles

Undergraduate

—

Member of Parliament of Canada

[112]

Kevin G. Lynch

Graduate

Economics

Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada

[116]

Dalton McGuinty

Undergraduate

Biology

Premier of Ontario, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party

[117]

Ted McMeekin

Undergraduate

Social Work

Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in the Ontario Government

Tony McWalter

Graduate

Philosophy

Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

[118]

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Lincoln MacCauley Alexander , PC CC OOnt CD QC ( January 21 , 1922 - October 19 , 2012 ) was a Canadian lawyer who became the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons , the first black federal Cabinet Minister ( serving as federal Minister of Labour ) , the first black Chair of the Worker 's Compensation Board , and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991 . He was the first person to serve five terms as Chancellor of the University of Guelph , from 1991 to 2007 . Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council .
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( /lɛfˈtɛnənt/ , in French : Lieutenant-gouverneur ( if male ) or Lieutenante-gouverneure ( if female ) de l'Ontario ) is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the Canadian monarch , Queen Elizabeth II , who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada , as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof , and resides predominantly in her oldest realm , the United Kingdom . The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is appointed in the same manner as the other provincial viceroys in Canada and is similarly tasked with carrying out most of the monarch 's constitutional and ceremonial duties . The current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is Elizabeth Dowdeswell .
Glyn Raymond Berry ( June 14 , 1946 - January 15 , 2006 ) was a Canadian diplomat killed in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan . He was the first Canadian diplomat to be killed while on duty in Afghanistan . Two other civilians were killed in the incident and ten people were wounded , including three Canadian soldiers , MCpl . Paul Franklin , Pte . William Edward Salikin and Cpl . Jeffrey Bailey .
John H. Bryden ( born July 15 , 1943 in Dundas , Ontario ) is a Canadian politician , journalist , and historian .
Sheila Maureen Copps , OC , PC ( born November 27 , 1952 ) is a former Canadian politician who also served as deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4 , 1993 , to April 30 , 1996 , and June 19 , 1996 , to June 11 , 1997 . Her father , Victor Copps was once mayor of Hamilton , Ontario . Considered a prominent left-wing member of the Liberal Party of Canada , Copps was an advocate for legal rights of women , marijuana legalization , minority rights , and protection of the environment . Her combative style and reputation for flamboyance were trademarks of her political career .
Gordon Howlett Dean ( July 23 , 1922 - April 19 , 2008 ) was a politician in Ontario , Canada . He was a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller .
Anthony Tony Alexander Dean , OOnt ( born August 19 , 1953 ) is a Canadian senator and former Ontario civil servant . He was secretary of the Cabinet , head of the Ontario Public Service , and the clerk of the Executive Council from 2002 to 2008 . Dean received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and social anthropology from University of Hull and a Master of Arts degree in sociology from McMaster University . He worked for ten years in the public sector in collective bargaining before joining the Ontario Public Service in 1989 . He was Deputy Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister and Associate Secretary of Cabinet , Policy . In 2002 , he was appointed by Ontario Premier Ernie Eves Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council . He retired in 2008 and is currently a professor at the University of Torontos School of Public Policy and Governance . In 2010 Dean was a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School . He advises governments , domestically and internationally , on public administration , public policy and implementation . Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty described him as the ultimate public servant , exhibiting on a daily basis the drive to get things done , and the diplomacy required to have them done well . In 2009 , he was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for having transformed the Ontario Public Service . On October 31 , 2016 , Dean 's appointment to the Senate of Canada was announced .
Robert Bob Dechert ( born May 18 , 1958 ) is a Canadian former Member of Parliament . From 2008 to 2015 , Dechert represented the riding of Mississauga - Erindale in the House of Commons of Canada , as a member of the Conservative Party .
Frank Di Giorgio ( listen ) is a former city councillor in Toronto , Ontario . He represented Ward 12 York South-Weston for the years 2000-2018 and was the North York City Councillor for Ward 4 for the years 1985-1997 .
Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM ( 20 October 1904 - 24 February 1986 ) was a Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971 . A Baptist minister , he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) . He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan . His cabinet was the first democratic socialist government in North America and it introduced the continent 's first single-payer , universal health care program , commonly known as Medicare . After setting up Saskatchewan 's Medicare program , Douglas stepped down and ran to lead the newly formed federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ) , the successor party of the national CCF . He was elected as its first federal leader in 1961 . Although Douglas never led the party to government , through much of his tenure the party held the balance of power in the House of Commons . He was noted as being the main opposition to the imposition of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis . He resigned as leader the next year , but remained as a Member of Parliament until 1979 . Douglas was awarded many honorary degrees , and a foundation was named for him and his political mentor M. J. Coldwell in 1971 . In 1981 , he was invested into the Order of Canada , and he became a member of Canada 's Privy Council in 1984 , two years before his death . In 2004 , a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas The Greatest Canadian , based on a Canada-wide , viewer-supported survey .
The New Democratic Party ( NDP ; French : Nouveau Parti démocratique , NPD ) is a social-democratic federal political party in Canada . The party was founded in 1961 out of the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) with the Canadian Labour Congress ( CLC ) . On the Canadian political spectrum , the party sits to the left of the Liberal Party . Since 2017 , the NDP has been led by Jagmeet Singh , who is the first Indo-Canadian to lead a major federal party in Canada . The federal and provincial ( or territorial ) level NDPs are more integrated than other political parties in Canada , and have shared membership ( except for the New Democratic Party of Quebec ) . Often the third- or fourth-largest party in Canada 's House of Commons , the NDP has never been in power at the federal level , but it has attained second-largest party status once . In the 2011 election under the leadership of Jack Layton , the NDP won the second most seats in the House , gaining the position of Official Opposition for the first time in the party 's history . The NDP subsequently lost 59 seats in the 2015 federal election and fell to third place in Parliament , though it was their second-best seat count to date . Following the 2019 election , the NDP held the balance of power as the Liberals won a minority government , although the party lost 15 seats and fell to fourth place behind the Bloc Québécois .
Patrick Rick Goldring ( born August 23 , 1957 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the 28th mayor of Burlington , Ontario from 2010 to 2018 . He graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics .
Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario in Ontario , Canada . Along with Milton to the north , Burlington forms the west end of the Greater Toronto Area , and is also part of the Hamilton metropolitan census area . Burlington lies between Lake Ontario 's north shore and the Niagara Escarpment .
Ontario is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada . Located in Central Canada , it is Canada 's most populous province , with 38.3 percent of the country 's population , and is the second-largest province in total area . Ontario is fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included . It is home to the nation 's capital city , Ottawa , and the nation 's most populous city , Toronto , which is also Ontario 's provincial capital . Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west , Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north , and Quebec to the east and northeast , and to the south by the U.S. states of ( from west to east ) Minnesota , Michigan , Ohio , Pennsylvania , and New York . Almost all of Ontario 's 2,700 km ( 1,678 mi ) border with the United States follows inland waterways : from the westerly Lake of the Woods , eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system . These include Rainy River , Pigeon River , Lake Superior , St. Marys River , Lake Huron , St. Clair River , Lake St. Clair , Detroit River , Lake Erie , Niagara River , Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River from Kingston , Ontario , to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall , Ontario . There is only about 1 km ( 0.6 mi ) of land border , made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border . Ontario is sometimes conceptually divided into two regions , Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario . The great majority of Ontario 's population and arable land is in the south . In contrast , the larger , northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and heavy forestation .
Andrea Horwath , MPP ( /ˈhɔːrvæθ/ ( listen ) ; born October 24 , 1962 ) is a Canadian politician and community development coordinator who is the Leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario and Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party . She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario , representing the riding of Hamilton Centre , and was chosen as the party 's leader at its 2009 leadership convention . She is the first woman to lead the Ontario New Democratic Party , and one of only three women to serve as leader of a political party with representation in the Ontario provincial legislature ( former Ontario Liberal Party leaders Kathleen Wynne and Lyn McLeod are the other two ) .
The Ontario New Democratic Party ( ONDP or NDP ; French : Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario ) is a social-democratic political party in Ontario , Canada . The Ontario NDP , led by Andrea Horwath since March 2009 , currently forms the Official Opposition in Ontario following the 2018 general election . It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party . It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Ontario Section ) ( Ontario CCF ) and the Ontario Federation of Labour ( OFL ) . For many years , the Ontario NDP was the most successful provincial NDP branch outside the national party 's western heartland . It had its first breakthrough under its first leader , Donald C. MacDonald in the 1967 provincial election , when the party elected 20 Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) to the Ontario Legislative Assembly . After the 1970 leadership convention , Stephen Lewis became leader , and guided the party to Official Opposition status in 1975 , the first time since the Ontario CCF did it twice in the 1940s . After the party 's disappointing performance in the 1977 provincial election , that included losing second party status , Lewis stepped down and Michael Cassidy was elected leader in 1978 . Cassidy led the party through one campaign , the 1981 election . The party did poorly again , and Cassidy resigned . In 1982 , Bob Rae was elected leader . Under his leadership , in 1985 , the party held the balance-of-power with the signing of an accord with the newly elected Liberal minority government .
Eric William Hoskins OC MSC ( born November 29 , 1960 ) is a former politician in Ontario , Canada . He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2009 to 2018 who represented the electoral district of Toronto - St. Paul 's . He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne in the portfolios of Health and Long-Term Care ( 2009 - 2018 ) , Economic Development , Trade , and Employment ( 2013 - 2014 ) , Children and Youth Services ( 2011 - 2012 ) , and Citizenship and Immigration ( 2010 - 2011 ) . In 2013 he contended for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party , which was won by Kathleen Wynne . Hoskins resigned from cabinet and the legislature on February 26 , 2018 , three months before the provincial election . On June 20 , 2018 , the federal government announced that Hoskins had been appointed Chair of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare . A medical doctor and former president of War Child Canada , Hoskins was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008 for his humanitarian work .
War Child is a non-governmental organisation founded in the UK in 1993 which provides assistance to children in areas experiencing conflict and the aftermath of conflict . The establishment of War Child UK was soon followed by organisations in Canada and the Netherlands .
Cameron Cam Jackson ( born February 27 , 1951 ) is a Canadian politician . A Progressive Conservative , he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1985 , and held the office of Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) for Burlington until his resignation on September 28 , 2006 to run for mayor of Burlington in the 2006 election . He served as mayor from 2006 to 2010 when he was defeated by Rick Goldring .
David John Johnson ( born December 17 , 1945 ) is a former politician in Ontario , Canada . He was the mayor of East York from 1982 to 1993 , a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1993 to 1999 , and a senior cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris .
East York was a former administrative district and municipality within Toronto , Ontario , Canada . From 1967 to 1998 , it was officially the Borough of East York , a semi-autonomous borough within the upper-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toronto . The borough was dissolved in 1998 when it was amalgamated with the other lower-tier municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto to form the new megacity of Toronto . Prior to its amalgamation , East York was Canada 's last remaining borough . It is separated by the Don River from the former City of Toronto . Traditional East York is southeast of the river , and the neighbourhoods of Leaside , Bennington Heights and densely populated Thorncliffe Park are northwest of the river . The heart of East York is filled with middle-class and working-class homes , with extensive high-rise developments along peripheral major streets and in Crescent Town and Thorncliffe Park .
Roy Lindsay Kellock , CC ( November 12 , 1893 - December 12 , 1975 ) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada . Born in Perth , Ontario , he graduated from McMaster University with a B.A . in 1915 . Kellock was called to bar in 1920 and practised with the firm of WeirFoulds in Toronto . In 1942 he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario . Two years later , he was appointed as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on October 3 , 1944 and served until January 15 , 1958 . Roy Kellock chaired the Royal Commission investigating the Halifax Riot of VE Day 1945 , and co-chaired the Royal Commission on Spying Activities in Canada in response to Gouzenko Affair in 1946 . In 1970 , he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada .
Stanley Howard Knowles PC OC ( June 18 , 1908 - June 9 , 1997 ) was a Canadian parliamentarian . Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF 's successor , the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) . Knowles was widely regarded and respected as the foremost expert on parliamentary procedure in Canada , and served as the CCF and NDP House Leader for decades . He was also a leading advocate of social justice , and was largely responsible for persuading the governments to increase Old Age Security benefits and for the introduction of the Canada Pension Plan , as well as other features of the welfare state .
Kevin G. Lynch PC OC ( born January 1951 ) is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet , Canada 's most senior civil servant .
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. ( born July 19 , 1955 ) is a Canadian retired politician who served as the 24th Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013 . He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier . In 2011 , he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat ( 1872-1896 ) , after his party was re-elected in that year 's provincial election . McGuinty was born in Ottawa . He studied science at university but ended up taking a law degree and practised law in Ottawa . His father was a professor and served as a provincial politician from 1987 to 1990 . In 1990 , his father suffered a heart attack while shovelling snow and died . A provincial election was called for later that year and McGuinty decided to run in his father 's place . He was elected as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in an election in which the Liberal government was defeated unexpectedly by the opposition Ontario New Democratic Party ( NDP ) . He served in opposition for the next five years . In 1995 he was re-elected but remained in opposition since the Progressive Conservatives won the election . The leader of the party , Lyn McLeod , was blamed for the loss as most polls pointed to a Liberal win .
The Ontario Liberal Party ( French : Parti libéral de l'Ontario ) is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario , Canada . The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate , though overlapping , memberships . John Fraser has been interim leader since June 14 , 2018 , following the resignation of Kathleen Wynne after the 2018 general election where the Liberals fell to only 7 seats and lost official party status for the first time in its 163-year history , the worst defeat of a governing party in Ontario history . Prior to the 2018 election the party won every election since the beginning of the 21st century and governed the province for the previous 15 years .
Ted McMeekin ( born c. 1948 ) is a former politician in Ontario , Canada . He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2000 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ancaster - Dundas - Flamborough - Westdale and Ancaster - Dundas - Flamborough - Aldershot . He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne .
Tony McWalter ( born 20 March 1945 in Worksop ) is a politician in the United Kingdom . He was Labour Party and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead between 1997 and 2005 .