Walter Gordon
Walter Gordon was a Canadian politician and businessman known for his tenure as Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in the 1960s. An advocate for economic nationalism, he led a royal commission that highlighted Canada's growing dependence on U.S. capital and pushed for protective measures in the Canadian banking sector, including amendments to the Bank Act that limited foreign ownership in Canadian banks.
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Pearson knew little about economics and cared even less, entrusting the nation’s finances to his friend Walter Gordon.
Mark Carney is the latest in a Liberal tradition of public servants as PM in trying times
Canada· 2025-05-19
Walter Gordon was a finance minister in Lester Pearson’s cabinet who wasn’t keen on Expo 67.
Charismatic entrepreneur Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien was ‘Mayor of the Fair’ at Expo 67Canada· 2025-04-27
Canada should return to the 1970s policies inspired by former finance minister Walter Gordon.
Letters to the editor, Feb. 15: ‘Although I will be forever thankful to be Canadian, I have no pride in what our country is becoming’Canada· 2025-02-15
Walter Gordon led a royal commission that found U.S. interests accounted for 68 per cent of total investment in Canada’s oil industry in 1955.
Opinion: Next up on Trump’s list: Breaking Canada’s bank oligopolyCanada· 2025-02-14
