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David Samuel Horne MacDonald, PC , BA , LLD , DD , (born August 20 , 1936 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island ) is a United Church Of Canada minister and a former Canadian politician, and author. David MacDonald was ordained in the United Church by the Maritime Conference on June 11 1961, and was a minister at Alberton, Tignish, And Cascumpec , Prince Edward Island before going into federal politics. He was first elected to the Canadian House Of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Member Of Parliament (MP) from the former Prince Edward Island riding of Prince in the 1965 Election , and was re-elected in the realigned Egmont riding from 1968 until 1979 . After the Tory victory in the 1979 Election , he was appointed Minister Of Communications , Minister Responsible For The Status Of Women and Secretary Of State For Canada in the short-lived Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark . MacDonald lost his seat to Liberal George Henderson in the 1980 Election but returned to the House as MP in the Toronto Riding of Rosedale in the 1988 Election , replacing former Toronto Mayor and PC incumbent David Crombie . However, he lost his seat again to a (NDP) leader Jack Layton , and magician Doug Henning for the Natural Law Party Of Canada . MacDonald also spent time in Africa between parliamentary duties. Subsequent to his defeat, he became romantically involved with Alexa McDonough , leader of the NDP. MacDonald had a reputation as a Red Tory (i.e., left-leaning), and subsequently switched his political allegiance to the Social Democratic NDP. He ran as the NDP candidate in his old riding (now called Toronto Centre-Rosedale) in the 1997 Election , but was defeated again by Graham. On November 25 1998 , The United Church Of Canada appointed MacDonald a ''Special Advisor'' on Residential Schools , in light of major lawsuits against the UCC from former students.
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