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John Ferguson Godfrey was named Minister of State (Infrastructure and Communities)
in July 2004. Prior to that, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime
Minister with special emphasis on cities, from December 2003 to May 2004. He
has been the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley
West since 1993.
Minister Godfrey also held a variety of other Parliamentary roles, beginning
with his appointment as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage
in January 1994. He also served as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Industry
in September 1995, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International
Cooperation and Minister Responsible for la Francophonie in February 1996. Between
July 1997 and July 1998, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
of Canadian Heritage. He has also chaired the National Cities Caucus, the National
Children's Agenda Caucus Committee, the Social Policy Caucus and the House of
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Minister Godfrey is familiar to many as the
editor of The Financial Post, a position he held from 1987 to 1991. Then,
before becoming the Member of Parliament for Don Valley West, he was Vice-President
of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, one of Canada's leading
research institutes, with programs studying social, economic and scientific
issues of major importance for Canada.
Minister Godfrey was educated at the University of Toronto and earned his M.
Phil and D. Phil at Oxford University. He began his career as an academic at
Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, where he taught for seventeen years as
a professor of history, ten of which he also served as President of the University
of King's College, Halifax.
He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including Doctor of Sacred
Letters (honoris causa), Trinity College, University of Toronto, (1987), the
Vanier Award for Outstanding Young Canadian (1981), and the Queen's Jubilee
Medal (1977).
He is married to Trish Bongard Godfrey and they have a son, Ian.
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