Alexa McDonough

Overview

Alexa McDonough (née Shaw) born Ottawa, Canada August 11, 1944. Social worker and politician. As leader of the New Democratic Party, opposed Iraq War. Fought Islamophobia, leading campaign for release of US detainee.

Quotations

“I just think that Canadians want to hear loud and clear just like other countries have said that they will not be part of any U.S. aggression towards Iraq, period. . . [I]t is a gross absence of leadership on the part of the prime minister to just kind of shrug and say 'Sure, Bush, bring on the evidence and then count on us for a war.'” (Canadian Annual Review of Politics 2002, pp. 68-9; photo NNDB)