OTTAWA — Keith Spicer, Canada's first commissioner of official languages, died Thursday in Ottawa at 89.
Canadians who closely followed the constitutional debates of the early 1990s might remember him as the man who starkly described the"fury in the land" against the prime minister who had named him to lead a commission on national unity.
He had earlier served as a researcher for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in 1964. He also worked as a special assistant to the minister of justice and president of the Privy Council from 1964 to 1965. "From the start, he actually cared about French and learning about another culture, which was revolutionary at the time," Nick said of his father, who grew up in a working-class family on a farm.
In his 2004 book,"Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian," Spicer recounted his time at the newspaper, including how his newsroom covered the 1985 terrorist attack on Ottawa's Turkish Embassy, the explosion of the U.S. Challenger space shuttle and the Chornobyl nuclear-station meltdown.
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