Gordon Ritchie
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"William Gordon Ritchie" was a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada/Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He studied MB ChB medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. He was a surgeon and physician by career.

Ritchie represented the Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette/Dauphin electoral district where he won office in the Canadian federal election, 1968/1968 federal election. He was re-elected in Canadian federal election, 1972/1972, Canadian federal election, 1974/1974 and Canadian federal election, 1979/1979. After serving successive terms from the 28th Canadian Parliament/28th to the 31st Canadian Parliaments, Ritchie left federal politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year's national elections.

Ritchie also made one early unsuccessful attempt to win the Dauphin seat in the

Canadian federal election, 1957/1957 federal election.

He died in 1998 at Dauphin.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1249459/pdf/cmaj_160_7_1107.pdf

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The WTO cases have to do with conformity to the very loose procedural obligations incorporated in the WTO itself.

I certainly support suspending the discussions.

We're not talking about some trivial violation.

There's no way that I can sit across the table from somebody whose main bargaining leverage is that he isn't complying with the existing agreement. That has to be cleared up first.