Lynn McDonald

Lynn McDonald

Lynn McDonald, PhD (born July 15 1940) is a university professor, anti-tobacco activist and former member of the Canadian House of Commons.

McDonald is a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph.

She is a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for Broadview—Greenwood from 1982 until 1988.

McDonald's first run for public office was during the 1981 provincial election when she was the Ontario New Democratic Party's candidate in the riding of Oriole in North York.

The next year, she entered federal politics and was elected in the by-election held to fill the vacancy created by Bob Rae's departure from federal politics to take the leadership of the Ontario NDP. She defeated former "Toronto Sun" editor Peter Worthington, who was running as an independent, by almost 2,000 votes. In the 1984 federal election, she increased her margin to over 3,500 votes again defeating Worthington who, this time, was running as the official Progressive Conservative candidate.

In Parliament, McDonald championed women's equality (she was the first Member of Parliament to be addressed as Ms.) and was also a notable opponent of smoking. She earned the enmity of the tobacco industry by moving a private member's bill to restrict smoking and ban tobacco advertising [http://reseau.crdi.ca/en/ev-28820-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html] .

Bill C-204, the "Non-smokers' Health Act", was introduced by McDonald in October 1986 and proposed to restrict smoking in federally regulated workplaces as well as on planes, trains and boats. The Bill also would have banned tobacco advertising and regulated sales by listed tobacco products under the "Hazardous Products Act".

McDonald's bill was short-listed by a parliamentary committee for debate on the floor of the house and succeeded in winning growing support from MPs from all sides of the House of Commons as health groups lobbied in its favour. On April 22 1987, ten days prior to the Bill's scheduled second reading vote, Health Minister Jake Epp announced the government's intention to introduce a bill that would ban tobacco advertising and sponsorships and strengthen health warnings on cigarette packages. The government also announced that it would prohibit smoking in government buildings and restrict it in other federally regulated workplaces.

Despite intense lobbying by the tobacco industry, both McDonald's bill and Epp's Bill C-51, were passed by parliament and given royal assent on June 28 1988. The lobbying around McDonald's bill is credited with giving Epp the political motivation to introduce his own legislation. McDonald's bill passed in a free vote despite the fact that every member of Cabinet present in the House voted against it.

McDonald was defeated in the 1988 federal election by Liberal Dennis Mills by 1,200 votes. She attempted a comeback against Mills in the 1993 federal election, but was defeated by almost 10,000 votes as support for the NDP collapsed nation-wide.

McDonald is the author of a number of books and scholarly articles including "The Early Origins of the Social Sciences" (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993) and "Women Founders of the Social Sciences" (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994). She is also the director of a project to publish the collected works of Florence Nightingale in sixteen volumes.

External links

* [http://www.sociology.uoguelph.ca/faculty_staff/lynn_mcdonald.htm Lynn McDonald] faculty homepage
* [http://reseau.crdi.ca/en/ev-28820-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html The Battle to Ban Advertising] on Bill C-204 and Bill C-51
* [http://www.sociology.uoguelph.ca/fnightingale/ The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale] project homepage


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