David Anderson starts a podcast

The BIG David Anderson Podcast debuts with Canada’s longest serving federal environment minister who discusses current events and a career with the federal Liberals spanning five decades.

David Anderson, pictured in a Hill scrum in the Centre Block foyer on May 13, 2003. Anderson, who is now 88 and has lost his vision and hearing, was the federal environment minister from 1999-2004. He remains engaged and outspoken as ever.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID HURFORD

April 13, 2026

VANCOUVER—With the British Columbia oil-tanker ban in the news, Canada’s just-announced pacific salmon conservation plan and Liberal Party supporters who gathered for their first convention since Mark Carney’s election, it is a good time to think of Canada’s longest-...

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