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Walter Lockhart Gordon, PC , CC , FCA , LL.D ( January 27 , 1906 – March 25 , 1987 ) was a Canadian politician and business person. Born in Toronto , he was educated at Upper Canada College and the Royal Military College in Kingston. Upon graduation, he joined the family accounting firm of Clarkson, Gordon and Company. In the 1962 Federal Election , he was elected to the Canadian House Of Commons as a Liberal . He was Minister Of Finance from 1963 to 1965 and President of the Privy Council from 1967 to 1968 in the government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson . He was noted for his economic nationalism and his support for new social programs. After leaving politics in 1968, he returned to business. He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1968, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star and economist Abraham Rotstein , founded the Committee For An Independent Canada . Canadian historian Jack Granatstein argues in '' Yankee Go Home? '' that the CIC 'helped to create the atmosphere in which Trudeau's government established the Canada Development Corporation in 1971 to "buy back" Canada.' Gordon was the Chancellor of York University . In 1976 , he was made a Companion of the Order Of Canada . He passed away in 1987. EXTERNAL LINKS
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