Long-time Liberal MP and cabinet minister John McCallum has passed away at age 75, his family said in a statement.
McCallum, whose last public sector post was as Canada’s envoy to China, passed away peacefully on June 21, his family said. He is survived by his wife, their three sons, and six grandchildren.
McCallum was a professor of economics at several different universities, including the University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, Université du Québec à Montréal, and McGill University. Outside of academia, he worked for the Royal Bank of Canada as senior vice president and chief economist before entering politics.
McCallum first became an MP in 2000, and was a minister of national defence under former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and later a minister of veterans affairs and subsequently minister of national revenue under Chrétien’s successor, former Prime Minister Paul Martin….