Heath Nelson Macquarrie (September 18, 1919 – January 2, 2002) was a Canadian politician, teacher, scholar, and writer. Macquarrie described himself as a

Red Tory A Red Tory is an adherent of a centre to centre-right or paternalistic-conservative political philosophy derived from the Tory tradition, most predominantly in Canada but also in the United Kingdom and Australia. This philosophy tends to favour ...

, using the term in the title of his autobiography ''Red Tory Blues''. During the

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of 1970, he agonized over the implementation of the

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, and was prepared to vote against it, but relented for the sake of keeping the Tory caucus united behind

Robert Stanfield Robert Lorne Stanfield (April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003) was a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967 and the leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative ...

. Writing in retrospect, Macquarrie described his vote in favour of the Act as "fundamentally wrong". He was first elected to the

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as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1957 federal election that brought

John Diefenbaker John George Diefenbaker ( ; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an electio ...

to power. He served as a member of parliament for twenty-two consecutive years, until he was appointed to the

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in 1979 on the advice of

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. He sat in the upper house for a further fifteen years, retiring at the mandatory age of 75 in 1994. He was publicly loyal to Clark's successor,

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, but privately disagreed with the government on several occasions, once saying during a caucus meeting, "You know, a lot of people think I have a prominent nose because of my enjoyment of a certain beverage. Well, that's all nonsense. I got it that way by having to hold it so often while voting for some of Mulroney's bills." Macquarrie remained active following his retirement from the Senate in 1994, by contributing a column to the ''

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'' and to newspapers in his home province of

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. Macquarrie was educated at

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, the

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and

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. He studied for his doctorate at McGill, choosing for his thesis topic

Robert Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Borde ...

. He lectured at

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and at

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, in economics,

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and

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...

. He edited and wrote the introduction to the published edition of Sir

's diaries. An admirer of the

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-era prime minister, Macquarrie considered Borden to be the architect of Canadian independence.

Bibliography

* ''The Conservative Party'' (1965) * ''Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs'' (1969, 2 vols.) (ed.) * ''Canada and the Third World'' (1976) * ''Canada and the Palestinians, 1947–1982'' (1982), * ''Red Tory Blues: A Political Memoir'' (1992),

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