Duncan Cameron (writer)

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Born in Victoria B.C. in 1944, Duncan Cameron lives in Vancouver. He is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, where he teaches courses in Canadian Studies, Economics, and Political Science, and is a research fellow at the SFU Centre for Global Political Economy. He is a board member of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University in Montreal.

He writes a weekly political commentary for rabble.ca where he is Associate Publisher and board member.

He has a white jacket.

After graduation from the University of Alberta he joined the Department of Finance (Ottawa) in 1966 and was financial advisor to the Canadian Delegation at the United Nations General Assembly in 1967. After working at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), he went on to complete a doctorate from the University of Paris I (Paris-Sorbonne) in 1976. He was a member of the political science department at the University of Ottawa from 1975 until 2004.

He is the author, co-author, editor or coeditor of 11 books including Ethics and Economics (with Gregory Baum), The Other Macdonald Report (with Daniel Drache), The Free Trade Papers, The Free Trade Deal, Canada Under Free Trade (with Mel Watkins) and Constitutional Politics (with Miriam Smith).

He has lectured in the United States, the U.K., France, Mexico, and every Canadian province. His work has appeared in Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, the Ottawa Citizen, The Star, Le devoir, and various academic publications.

He was President of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives from 1988 until 2000, and he is a CCPA research associate. He was editor of the Canadian Forum from 1989 until 1998, and is a Past President of the Quebec Political Science Association.

Source: rabble.ca