19 Facts About David Iftody

David Iftody served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2000 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, representing the Manitoba riding of Provencher.

David Iftody worked at the Manitoba Youth Care Centre from 1977 to 1982, and subsequently received Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Manitoba.

David Iftody later moved to Ottawa, Ontario, where he worked as a management consultant and was owner and president of the firm Animus Research.

David Iftody lectured at Carleton University in the Faculty of Law.

David Iftody returned to Manitoba to stand as the Liberal candidate for Provencher in the 1993 federal election, and was elected over Reform Party candidate Dean Whiteway.

The Liberals won a majority government under Jean Chretien, and David Iftody entered parliament as a government backbencher.

David Iftody was re-elected in the 1997 election against a strong challenge from the Reform Party, and served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from July 1998 until 2000.

David Iftody was defeated in the 2000 election, losing to Canadian Alliance candidate Vic Toews.

David Iftody was appointed to the House of Commons Finance Committee shortly after his election.

David Iftody served on a Liberal caucus task force on financial institutions in 1998, and supported its conclusion that two proposed major bank mergers would be against the interests of Canadians.

David Iftody was a committed Roman Catholic, and was part of the socially conservative wing of the Liberal Party.

David Iftody later opposed similar legislation protecting homosexuals under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and was one of 17 Liberal MPs to vote against legislation expanding the benefits of same-sex couples in 2000.

David Iftody said that he did not support discrimination and denied being part of a parliamentary "God squad", but nonetheless expressed a personal view that homosexuality was "spiritually unhealthy".

David Iftody opposed the Chretien government's plan to create a national firearms registry, and voted against the bill enabling the registry on its final reading.

David Iftody was of Romanian background, and was chairman of the Canada-Romanian Parliamentary Group in the 1990s.

David Iftody criticized Shell Oil for its human rights record in Nigeria, claiming that the company had violated "the elementary standards of the international code of conduct for business" by failing to intervene against government abuses.

David Iftody supported increased trade between Canada and the Republic of China.

David Iftody supported nuclear energy, and actively campaigned to prevent the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

David Iftody stopped the attack, and detained the attacker until the police arrived.