Duncan Edmonds was born on 1936 and is a Canadian businessman, politician, consultant, lobbyist, university professor, and writer.
18 Facts About Duncan Edmonds
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Duncan Edmonds began doctorate studies at the London School of Economics.
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Duncan Edmonds left his graduate studies, never to return, to take a job in Ottawa as an executive assistant in the office of Liberal Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, the future Prime Minister.
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Duncan Edmonds next worked as a professor of political studies at Carleton University and became a Dean of Residence at Carleton.
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Duncan Edmonds played a major role in organizing the Company of Young Canadians in 1965.
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Duncan Edmonds worked for CUSO, and for Crossroads Africa in the 1960s.
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Duncan Edmonds ran in the Winnipeg-area riding of Charleswood in the 1969 provincial election but lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Arthur Moug by over a thousand votes.
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Duncan Edmonds worked as a consultant and lobbyist in Ottawa during much of the 1970s, first on his own, and then as a co-founder of the firm Public Affairs International, along with Torrance Wylie.
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Duncan Edmonds developed advanced concepts around free trade in North America, but Clark did not pursue this initiative.
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Duncan Edmonds left this job after one year, to return to consulting work with his own firm.
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The free trade ideas developed by Duncan Edmonds would have to wait another decade, for Brian Mulroney's rule, to become reality.
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Clark became Prime Minister in 1979 but was defeated in 1980; during that time, Duncan Edmonds continued to advise Clark on an informal basis.
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Duncan Edmonds returned as a senior policy adviser to Defence Minister Robert Coates when the Tories regained power in September 1984.
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Duncan Edmonds reported the details of this and other matters to senior Canadian civil servants.
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Mulroney was annoyed that Duncan Edmonds had acted as a whistle-blower on Coates, and blacklisted Duncan Edmonds from government.
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Duncan Edmonds continued to work in the field of international development, and wrote a book on Canada-United States relations in the mid-1980s.
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Duncan Edmonds served as a professor and Chairman of Canadian Studies at Yale University from 1986 to 1988.
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Duncan Edmonds was later named Vice Chairman of the McRae Group of Companies, a real estate and development firm based in Arizona and California.