The CDC was created as a result of Walter Gordon's Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, and the 1968 Watkins Report commissioned by Gordon, in an attempt to redress the problem of foreign ownership in the Canadian economy by stimulating the development of Canadian owned corporations, particularly in the field of natural resources and industry.
Dr. Axworthy had written his Queen's University masters thesis on Walter Gordon's role in reforming the Liberal Party, especially the Kingston Conference of 1960, and this early renewal effort influenced his views on party process.
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In 1967, he worked as a research assistant for the Task Force on the Structure of the Canadian Economy, led by Walter Gordon.
Walter L. Gordon (1906–1987), Canadian politician and cabinet minister
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Jamaa Fanaka (Walter Gordon, 1942–2012), African-American filmmaker
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Walter A. Gordon (1894–1976), African-American political figure and American football player for University of California, Berkeley
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Fanaka was born Walter Gordon to Robert L. and Beatrice Gordon in Jackson, Mississippi.