John Horton McDermid, PC, FRI (17 March 1940 – 6 December 2024) was a Canadian politician.
Born as David Michael Date to a teenage mother, he was adopted by Reverend John McDermid and his wife, Nora.
[1] McDermid worked in marketing, public relations and broadcasting before he entered politics.
He left Cabinet with the departure of Mulroney as Prime Minister of Canada in June 1993, and did not run in the 1993 federal election.
[5] McDermid received the Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) in his role as Lieutenant Colonel,[6] the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012),[7] and the King Charles III Coronation Medal (2024).