Keith Martin (politician)
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The Honourable Doctor Keith Martin PC MD |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca |
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In office October 25, 1993 – May 2, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Dave Barrett |
| Succeeded by | Randall Garrison |
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April 13, 1960 London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Liberal (2004–present) |
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Reform (1993–2000) Canadian Alliance (2000–2003) Independent (2003–2004) |
| Residence | Victoria, British Columbia and Washington, D.C. |
| Profession | Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Physician, Conservationist |
Keith Martin, PC is a physician and is the executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health in Washington, DC. He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca in British Columbia, Canada from 1993 to 2011.
Martin was born in London, UK and grew up in Toronto. He attended Neil McNeil High School. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Doctorate of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science with high distinction. He currently lives in Washington, DC and Victoria, British Columbia. He practiced emergency and family practice from 1987 to 2005. He also did two terms as a doctor in a rural region of South Africa during the Mozambique war.
He was first elected in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada for the riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca. However, unlike most Reformers, he was socially liberal, and he often clashed with Reform's conservative leaders. He is conservative on economic issues but is socially liberal. When the Reform Party was folded into the Canadian Alliance, he sought the party leadership, but finished fourth with 2% of the vote. Despite his ideological differences, he did not join the dissidents who briefly left the party in 2001–02 to protest the leadership of .
In both 2009 and 2010, political commentator Rex Murphy, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's The National, recognized Martin as the most underrated politician in the House of Commons.
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