John McCallum
MP, Markham-Unionville, ON; Liberal Critic for Treasury Board, Public Works and Government Services, Housing and Government Operations.
Last Contribution:
Budget Cuts Must be Transparent
Contributor Biography
John McCallum was elected to the House of Commons in November 2000. He currently servest as the Liberal Critic for Treasury Board, Public Works and Government Services, Housing and Government Operations. During his time in politics Mr. McCallum has held many Cabinet portfolios under both the Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin governments including Minister of National Defence, Minister of Veterans' Affairs, Minister of Natural Resources and Minister of National Revenue. Prior to his appointment to Cabinet, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and Finance Critic for the Official Opposition.
Before entering politics, Mr. McCallum was senior vice-president and chief economist of the Royal Bank of Canada between 1994 and 2000. Prior to that he worked as a professor of economics at McGill University where he served as the dean of the faculty of arts (1987-94), Université du Québec à Montréal (1982-87), Simon Fraser University (1978-82), and the University of Manitoba (1976-78).
A native of Montreal, Mr. McCallum obtained a bachelor of arts from Cambridge University, a diplôme d'études supérieures from Université de Paris and a doctorate in economics from McGill University. Mr. McCallum and his wife, Nancy Lim, have three sons.
