Dale Jackaman

Dale Jackaman

Dale Jackaman (born June 2, 1956 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.

Dale Jackaman

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Biographical history

Early life

Jackaman, a social democrat, became well-known in the 1980s and 1990s as one of the founders and past Executive Director of British Columbia's largest anti-tobacco activist and lobby group, Airspace Non-Smokers' Rights Society, later renamed Airspace Action on Smoking and Health. Airspace was an effective tobacco control organization during a time when smoking was prevalent in the workplace and virtually all indoor public places. Jackaman was prominent in attacking municipal and provincial politicians for the lack of effective laws to protect non-smokers, and was involved in helping to initiate government litigation against the tobacco industry.

Political

Jackaman was a candidate in the federal riding of Richmond for the New Democratic Party in the 2004, 2008 and 2011 federal elections, losing to Raymond Chan and then Alice Wong (twice). He also ran in the Provincial riding of Richmond Centre for the New Democratic Party of British Columbia in the 2005 provincial election. Richmond is not considered a strong riding for the NDP. Jackaman, while garnering thirty-two percent of the riding's votes, lost his bid against Olga Ilich, who became the BC Liberal Party Labour Minister.

Jackaman is an openly atheist politician. During the 2006 federal election, Jackaman chose to start a third party attack campaign against the evangelical Conservative candidate, Darrel Reid, former President of Focus on the Family. Jackaman attacked Reid for his stated opinions on stem cell research and treatment, gay rights issues, creationism, and alleged "hidden agenda" issues. His campaign may have contributed to Reid losing the election to the Liberal incumbent, Raymond Chan, who would subsequently serve his fourth term in Parliament and the new Liberal Official Opposition.

Jackaman has also appeared on radio and television shows as a guest commentator, including national TV spots on the Vision TV network with debates on religion in politics being a common theme. (7) A common thread to Jackaman's opinions are support for life extension technologies and attacks on the federal Conservatives on separation of church and state issues, muzzling of federal scientists, and governmental decisions on science and technology. (4)

Professional

Through the 1990s to 2004, Jackaman served as the Director of Information Systems and was a senior manager at BC Research Inc., western Canada’s largest privately owned scientific research and development facility. BC Research's main consulting team has since been acquired by Cantest prior to the planned closing of the BC Research and Innovation Complex in 2007. Jackaman, a licensed private investigator, became well known in IT circles, notably in the field of computer security, and has used his prominence to take on both governments (notably China and the governing Conservative Party of Canada) on human rights, censorship, muzzling of scientists, security, privacy of information, and separation of church and state issues.

Military

Jackaman, a former reservist and United Nations peacekeeper, served three tours of duty in the Middle East with the Canadian Armed Forces Signal Corps.

Personal

Currently, Jackaman is the president of a private investigations and computer security firm and lives in Richmond with his wife and daughter.

Dale is also a federally licensed amateur radio operator. He serves the community with his hobby.

References

(1) "Jackaman campaigns against Reid ", The Richmond News, December 13, 2005

http://www.richmond-news.com/issues05/123105/news/123105nn2.html

(2) "Chan Still the Chosen One", The Richmond News, January 24, 2006

http://www.richmond-news.com/issues06/014106/news/014106nn1.html

(3) "BC Humanist Association"

http://bchumanist.ca

(4) "Personal Blog"

http://dalejackaman.ca

(5) "Airspace Action on Smoking and Health - website"

http://airspace.bc.ca

(6) "Newspaper published biography"

http://www.canada.com/richmondnews/news/story.html?id=6454afdb-9ea3-4bfd-bb9f-11f6898c70fc

Airspace Action on Smoking and Health

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_%28electoral_district%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Centre

(7) The Daily Weekend Edition

http://thedailyweekend.ca/episodes/2009/01/18/24


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