Луи Филипп Эдмонстон: Канадский политик и защитник прав потребителей.

Canadian politician (1944–2022)

Louis Phillip Edmonston (26 May 1944 – 2 December 2022) was a Canadian consumer advocate, writer, journalist, and politician. Along with Andrew Scheer, he was one of the few politicians with dual American and Canadian citizenship to be elected to the Parliament of Canada. Edmonston was best known for his series of annual Lemon Aid car guides. and graduated from the Canal Zone College.

In 1968 he founded the Automobile Protection Association (APA), which uncovered and disseminated information about automobile defects and successfully pressured the auto industry for several recalls. Edmonston was president of the APA until 1987. In that role, he worked on thousands of consumer claims against automobile manufacturers and won million dollar settlements and hundreds of lawsuits for consumers. (Another Quebec MP, Robert Toupin from Terrebonne, had previously crossed the floor to the NDP in 1986.) His relationship with the NDP was at times turbulent. During the party's 1989 leadership campaign, he threatened to resign from the party if Dave Barrett became leader. A Quebec nationalist, Edmonston was offended by Barrett's view that western alienation was more important than Quebec's grievances over the constitution. Edmonston's differences with the NDP over its position on Canadian federalism and against decentralization and devolving powers to Quebec contributed to his decision not to run for re election in 1993.

Edmonston was twice married with a son from his first marriage.

Edmonston died of melanoma in Panama on 2 December 2022, at the age of 78.