26 Facts About Linda Duncan

Linda Francis Duncan was born on June 25,1949 and is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Edmonton Strathcona from 2008 until 2019.

Linda Duncan then taught environmental law at Dalhousie Law School and advised the Government of Indonesia on environmental assessment and enforcement.

Linda Duncan spent time in Whitehorse working as an assistant deputy in the Yukon government, later consulting with Kluane First Nation and later in Montreal as Head Law and Enforcement for the NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

Linda Duncan served on the Sierra Legal Defence Fund Board of Directors.

Linda Duncan was born in Edmonton on June 25,1949.

Linda Duncan grew up in the south side of Edmonton.

Linda Duncan attended the University of Alberta, graduating from its law school.

In 1987, Thomas McMillan, the federal Minister of Environment, recruited Linda Duncan to establish a new enforcement unit at Environment Canada.

Linda Duncan moved to Montreal after she accepted a position helping lead the enforcement department of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Linda Duncan served on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund from 2001 to 2007.

Linda Duncan's family has had a cottage at Wabamun Lake since her youth and she has participated on the Lake Wabamun Enhancement and Protection Association.

Nevertheless, incumbent Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, who had served since 1997, won his fourth mandate to represent the riding, with Linda Duncan coming almost 5,000 votes behind him in second place.

Linda Duncan made support for public health care, enforcement of environmental laws, and driving the economy with 'green jobs' priorities in her campaign.

Linda Duncan drew upon support from a large volunteer network built since the last election and strategic voting from Liberal supporters.

Linda Duncan supported the proposed coalition government, in which arrangement the NDP and Bloc Quebecois would have supported the Liberals, whose leader Stephane Dion would have become Prime Minister.

Linda Duncan condemned Prime Minister Stephen Harper for labelling the coalition government as "treasonous" and "criminal".

When Parliament resumed in January 2009, Linda Duncan sat as a member of the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.

Linda Duncan supported Ecojustice and the Sierra Club's lawsuit against the government's waiver of federal environmental assessment reviews on infrastructure projects arguing that it required an act of Parliament, rather than the Conservative government's Order in Council.

Linda Duncan vocally supported the opposition's Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act that would hold Canadian companies accountable in Canadian courts for human rights and environmental abuses committed in other countries.

Linda Duncan introduced one private member's bill, entitled the National Literacy Policy Act, which received first reading on October 5,2011, but did not advance from there.

In 2014, Linda Duncan introduced an Act to establish a Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights, Bill C-634, "whose provisions apply to all decisions that emanate from a federal source or are related to federal land or a federal work or undertaking".

Linda Duncan spoke at a Jack Layton memorial on August 24,2012.

Linda Duncan had been suggested as a potential candidate in the leadership election, but she ruled herself out of running in September 2011 and later endorsed Paul Dewar.

Linda Duncan served as a critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet through the parliament's lifespan.

Linda Duncan was responsible for Aboriginal Affairs until 2012, Public Works and Government Services until 2013, and finally Western Economic Diversification.

Linda Duncan was re-elected for a third term in the 2015 federal election.