John Meisel

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John Meisel, CC (born October 23, 1923, Vienna, Austria) is a Canadian political scientist, teacher and scholar.

He attended the University of Toronto and the University of London. He has taught at Queen's University since 1949. He served on the Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation in 1965. From 1980 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. From 1992 until 1995, he was the 103rd President of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1989 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and promoted to Companion in 1999.

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Government offices
Preceded by
Pierre Camu
Chairman of the CRTC
1980–1983
Succeeded by
André Bureau
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