- Gar Knutson
Thomas Garfield "Gar" Knutson, PC , MBA , LL.B (born
May 4 ,1956 ) is a lawyer and former member of theParliament of Canada , as well as a former cabinet minister.Knutson holds a
Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from theRichard Ivey School of Business at theUniversity of Western Ontario , and aBachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from theUniversity of Windsor . He attended high school at theJesuit -runBrebeuf College School in Toronto.In the 1993 federal election, he was elected to the
Canadian House of Commons as theMember of Parliament (MP) for Elgin-Middlesex-London riding as a candidate representing the Liberal Party. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 elections.He was Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he was named Secretary of State for Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and served as Minister of State for International Trade from 2003 to 2004. He was defeated by the Conservative candidate Joe Preston in the 2004 election. Shortly afterward, Knutson became a partner at Ottawa's Borden Ladner Gervais LLP office, a large nationwide law firm, practicing in the area of government relations and public policy.External links
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