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Allan McGirr

Allan McGirr was a Hill staffer between 1974 and 1979 working as a research assistant to a Liberal MP and then for two cabinet ministers serving as press secretary and speechwriter. His political career also included serving as director of communications for the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election. Since then, he’s had only armchair involvement in Canadian politics as he now works in the IT industry as a senior principal consultant for a large enterprise software firm and lives in White Rock, B.C.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Opinion | BY ALLAN MCGIRR | June 2, 2022
Prime minister Pierre Trudeau, pictured second left in 1975. That year, the Trudeau government introduced an omnibus justice bill to deal with a range of items, including the abolition of capital punishment. In the wake of the Brampton shooting that year, a modicum of gun control was also proposed in the legislation, writes Allan McGirr. Photograph courtesy of Flickr
Opinion | BY ALLAN MCGIRR | June 2, 2022
Opinion | BY ALLAN MCGIRR | June 2, 2022
Prime minister Pierre Trudeau, pictured second left in 1975. That year, the Trudeau government introduced an omnibus justice bill to deal with a range of items, including the abolition of capital punishment. In the wake of the Brampton shooting that year, a modicum of gun control was also proposed in the legislation, writes Allan McGirr. Photograph courtesy of Flickr