1. David William Kilgour was a Canadian human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician.
18 Facts About David Kilgour
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David Kilgour was a Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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From crown attorney in northern Alberta to Canadian Cabinet minister, David Kilgour ended his 27-year tenure in the House of Commons of Canada as an Independent MP.
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David Kilgour was originally elected as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1979.
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David Kilgour first sought election in 1968 in the riding of Vancouver Centre as a Progressive Conservative.
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David Kilgour did not run again until the 1979 election, in Edmonton; he won a seat this time and went on to serve as a member of parliament for about 27 years.
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David Kilgour sat as an independent for several months before joining the Liberals.
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In 2001 while visiting Zimbabwe, David Kilgour was vocally critical of Mugabe's farm-invasions policy and pushed for increasing international pressure.
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David Kilgour cited Canada's lack of action on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, as reasons for quitting.
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David Kilgour asserted that he has no plans to move back to the Conservatives, and stated that he had no plans to run for re-election.
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David Kilgour used this influence to urge the Martin government to send peacekeepers to Darfur.
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David Kilgour was an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network.
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David Kilgour served as a fellow of the Queen's University Centre for the Study of Democracy; a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies, and co-chair of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, and has hosted an Iran pro-democracy rally attended by approximately 90,000 in France in 2009.
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David Kilgour was married to Laura Scott, with whom he had five children.
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David Kilgour died on April 5,2022, in Ottawa at the age of 81, from lung disease.
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David Kilgour is the brother of Geills Turner, widow of former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.
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David Kilgour appeared in Red Reign: The Bloody Harvest of China's Prisoners, Davids and Goliath, and was interviewed in Free China: The Courage to Believe.
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David Kilgour has a brief appearance in the 2012 documentary film Death by China.