Jim Munson
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Jim Munson (born July 14, 1946) is a Canadian Senator and retired journalist.
Munson spent most of his journalism career with CTV, which he joined in 1979 after working for Broadcast News for several years. He served as the network's correspondent in Ottawa and then London, England. From 1987 to 1992 he was CTV's bureau chief in Beijing and consequently covered the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He also covered the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War in the course of his career. Munson was let go by CTV in 2001.
A year later, in August 2002, he took employment with the Prime Minister's Office as Jean Chrétien's director of communications, often acting as the Prime Minister's spokesperson. On December 10, 2003, two days before retiring from office, Chrétien appointed Munson to the Canadian Senate.
Jim Munson currently represents the province of Ontario in the Senate with his official designation including the region known as Ottawa-Rideau Canal.
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