Scholar David E. Smith had an abiding passion for this country’s political institutions

David E. Smith was one of Canada’s finest and most inquisitive political scholars who possessed well into his 80s a teenage boy’s romantic love for his country – a love that carried him through authoring, editing or co-editing 20 books, half a dozen academic monographs and a stack of book chapters and articles exploring the political machinery of how the country works.

He died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on Jan. 2 at his home in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. He was 86. He was president of the Canadian Political Science Association and senior policy fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina. He lectured in the United States, Britain, Australia and Korea, held a visiting professorship of Canadian studies in Japan and was a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson.

The privy council office – the central department of government within the prime minister’s office – found him a useful, discreet, knowledgeable expert with whom to talk about their jobs. “He was very trustworthy,” Christopher McCreery said. – that republicanism doesn’t fit Canada’s political culture or system at all, and it would take the country’s political institutions half a century or more to figure how to change from monarchy to republic.

RIP

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