David MacKenzie (born June 12, 1946) is a
Canadian
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politician
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. He is a current member of the
House of Commons of Canada, representing the
riding of
Oxford
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,
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as a
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.
Born in
London, Ontario
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, MacKenzie served with the
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City Police from 1967 to 1997, and was Chief of Police from 1987 to 1997. In 1997, he became the General Manager of
Roetin Industries Canada.
He first ran for parliament in the
federal election of 1997 as a
Progressive Conservative, losing to
Liberal
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John Finlay by 1,575 votes. He ran again in the
election of 2000, and lost to Finlay by roughly the same margin. The national Progressive Conservative Party had a weak organization in Ontario during this period, and that Mackenzie's vote totals were well above the party's provincial average and that in both 1997 and 2000, the right wing vote was split between the Progressive Conservatives and Reform who later became the Canadian Alliance.
In 2002, MacKenzie was the
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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trainer for the
National Democratic Institute in
Washington, D.C.
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The Progressive Conservatives merged with the
Canadian Alliance
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as the Conservative Party of Canada in early 2004, and Mackenzie joined the new party. Finlay did not run in the 2004 election, and MacKenzie defeated new Liberal candidate Murray Coulter by about 6,500 votes. After the election, he was named as his party's associate critic for National Defence. In the 2006 federal election, MacKenzie was re-elected to his Oxford seat, beating Liberal candidate Greig Mordue by a wide margin. With the Conservative Party of Canada forming a minority government, MacKenzie was selected as parliamentary secretary for the Ministry of Public Safety.
In December 2022, MacKenzie announced that he would retire as MP by the end of January 2023.
Electoral record
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
References
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1946 births
Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Living people
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
People from Woodstock, Ontario
Politicians from London, Ontario
Canadian police chiefs
21st-century Canadian politicians