(1946-06-24) 24 June 1946 (age 78) London, England, UK
Political party
Liberal
Spouse
Penny Collenette
Residence(s)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education
Glendon College, York (BA, MA)
Profession
Business Advisor
David Michael Collenette, PC OOnt (born 24 June 1946) is a former Canadian politician. From 1974, until his retirement from politics in 2004, he was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. A graduate from York University's Glendon College in 1969, he subsequently received his MA, in 2004 and LL.D for education in 2015 from the same university. He was first elected in the York East riding of Toronto to the House of Commons on 8 July 1974, in the Pierre Trudeau government and returned to Parliament in 1993 representing Don Valley East.
Collenette served as a Member of the Canadian House of Commons for more than 20 years. He was elected five times and defeated twice. He served in the Cabinet under three prime ministers - Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chrétien. He held several portfolios:
Minister of State-Multiculturalism (1983–1984);
Minister of National Defence (1993–1996);
Minister of Veterans Affairs (1993–1996);
Minister of Transport (1997–2003) and
Minister of Crown Corporations (2002–2003).
During the constitutional debates of the early 1980s, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Government House leader and was assigned by the government to Westminster to represent Canada's interests.
He served as Chair of the House of Commons Special Energy Committee in 1982–83 dealing with legislation for the national energy program (NEP).
David Michael Collenette, PC OOnt (born 24 June 1946) is a former Canadian politician. From 1974, until his retirement from politics in 2004, he was a...
Collenette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Beatrice Collenette (1899–2001), Guernsey-born American dancer DavidCollenette (born...
The wife of former Liberal Member of Parliament and cabinet minister DavidCollenette, she sought, and won, the 2008 Liberal nomination over community activist...
needed] By the late 1990s, with a rail-friendly Minister of Transport, DavidCollenette, in office, there were modest funding increases to Via. Corridor services...
Governor of New York 1945 – Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player 1946 – DavidCollenette, Canadian civil servant and politician, 32nd Canadian Minister of National...
Mousley, senior government economist, former assistant to then-MP DavidCollenette, unsuccessfully ran for the Liberal nomination in Don Valley West in...
attacks. After learning that the FAA had closed down U.S. airspace, DavidCollenette, the Canadian Transport Minister, gave orders that Canadian airports...
1979 Ratansi joined the Liberal Party of Canada and campaigned for DavidCollenette. Later she was the federal Liberal candidate for Don Valley East in...
Sharon Sholzberg, also a lawyer. They had two children together – Jonathan David and Elizabeth Anne. Gray was first elected to Parliament for the riding...
found their way into the media. The new Minister of National Defence DavidCollenette argued that the videos were disgusting, demeaning and racist. With...
2020[update], the NAOC is headed by its chairman, former Minister of Defence DavidCollenette, and the list of directors counts 51 persons. As of 1 November 2019[update]...
attack, over which Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Transport Minister DavidCollenette, US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci, and provincial and local officials...
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field of seven candidates in York East, unseating incumbent Liberal DavidCollenette. During his time in the House of Commons of Canada, Ritchie was Parliamentary...
(December 2, 1928 – August 2, 2007). He had two children, including professor David Wilfrid Peters, and two grandchildren, including actor Keir Gilchrist. He...
Institute". Archived from the original on 8 September 2005. Davenport, David (1 December 2002). "The New Diplomacy". Policy Review. "The North South...
married Sheila Ann Cowan, with whom he has three sons: Paul, Jamie and David. In 1969, Power Corporation took a controlling share in Canada Steamship...
the best-known First World War poem, "In Flanders Fields", and sister of David Kilgour, a long-time Canadian Member of Parliament. The Turners have a daughter...
Blais Pierre Bussières Charles Caccia Bennett Campbell Jean Chrétien DavidCollenette Paul Cosgrove Pierre de Bané Judy Erola James Fleming Francis Fox Herb...
withdraw its support of the bridge project and federal Transport Minister DavidCollenette announced that the Government of Canada would accept the Council's...
opposed at the time as excessive by parliamentarians like Tommy Douglas and David Lewis, it was met with only limited objections from the public. After consultations...
nomination for Vancouver Centre for the 1993 federal election over lawyer David Varty and college lecturer John Lang in March 1993. She was elected to the...
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