Michael Forrestall
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John Michael William Curphey Forrestall (September 23, 1932 – June 8, 2006) was a Canadian Senator and Member of Parliament.
A Nova Scotia journalist and businessman, Forrestall was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1965 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was elected the MP for Dartmouth—Halifax East in the 1968 election, and remained in the House for a total of twenty-three years.
During the Brian Mulroney government, Forrestall served as a parliamentary secretary to a succession of ministers until he was defeated in what was by then the riding of Dartmouth in the 1988 federal election Many Conservative MPs in the Maritime provinces were defeated because of the unpopularity of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in Atlantic Canada. In November 1990, Prime Minister Mulroney appointed Forrestall to the Canadian Senate, where he sat as a Progressive Conservative until February 2004, when he and most of the Tory caucus joined the new Conservative Party of Canada.
Forrestall died on June 8, 2006;[1] he had been admitted to a Halifax-area hospital with serious breathing problems on June 3.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Federal Political Experience - FORRESTALL, Michael, Parliament of Canada. Retrieved on March 3, 2007.
- ^ Senator in hospital. Montreal Gazette. Retrieved on June 9, 2006.
Categories: 1932 births | 2006 deaths | Canadians of British descent | Conservative Party of Canada senators | Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Nova Scotia | Canadian senators from Nova Scotia | Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs | Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators | People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
