| John Russell Taylor | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Vancouver—Burrard |
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| In office 1957–1962 |
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| Preceded by | Lorne MacDougall |
| Succeeded by | Thomas R. Berger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 28, 1917 Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Died | February 28, 2002 (aged 84) |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
John Russell Taylor (November 28, 1917 – February 28, 2002) was a Canadian politician. He was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from Vancouver—Burrard from 1957 to 1962.
Taylor was defeated in the 1963 general election. He was defeated in the 1974 general election when he ran in Vancouver Kingsway.
Taylor was a member of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1946 until his retirement in 1988. He was one of the first lawyers in Canada to be involved in mostly immigration law matters. Taylor gained recognition in 1957 with his representation of William Hanna, "the man without a country," whose case was used by the opposition Progressive Conservative Party in the House of Commons to attack the then government's handling of immigration matters.
In the 1960s Taylor was counsel for Robert Brooks, an American citizen who was granted landing as an immigrant in 1963. He was ordered deported in 1968 on grounds that he gave false and misleading information. An appeal against the deportation order was eventually considered by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1974, which, in a precedent setting case determined that the person did not have to knowingly present false or misleading information.[1]
During the 1970s, Taylor acted for David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan member, when he was removed from Canada.
He was the second son of Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, the member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Taylor was an uncle of Mark Taylor, a professional ice hockey player in the 1980s.