David de Burgh Graham

David de Burgh Graham (born 29 July 1981) is a Canadian politician and railway dispatcher who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Laurentides—Labelle from 2015 until his defeat in the 2019 federal election.

[3] At 18 years of age, Graham was an editor for the websites of the FLOSS community DevChannel.org, freshmeat.net and later the news sites Newsforge.com and Linux.com, controlled by the predecessors of Geeknet.

He was co-founder[5] of the Open and Free Technology Community in late 2001 when OpenProjects.net split into OFTC and Freenode[6] where he was elected to four terms as president[7] and remains as honorary adviser.

Graham has been a leader in promoting Rural Digital Infrastructure, including basic cell phone access which is missing from much of Canada.

[30] As a science fiction fan, Graham was the first to talk about Arthur Dent and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the House of Commons.