Keith Davey

Douglas Keith Davey, OC (April 21, 1926 – January 17, 2011) was a Canadian politician and campaign organizer.

Davey became a political organizer for the Liberal Party at the constituency level in Toronto in his early 20s, and joined the Executive of the Ontario Young Liberals in the 1950s, along with Judy LaMarsh (later a federal cabinet minister).

Davey was appointed National Campaign Director of the Liberal Party of Canada in 1961.

Commuting regularly between homes in Ottawa and Toronto, Davey played important roles in every federal Liberal campaign up to and including 1984, serving Prime Ministers Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, and John Turner.

Terence Corcoran argues that it was Davey's contention that a subsidized press is necessary "to supplement the privately owned media" which "were a menace to a democratic society.