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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1890–1949)}}
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|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = Ian Alistair Mackenzie
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}}
| image            = Photograph of the Hon. Ian A. Mackenzie.jpg

| office1          = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] for [[Vancouver City (provincial electoral district)|Vancouver]]
| predecessor1     = 
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| term_start1      = 1920
| term_end1        = 1928

| office2          = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] for [[North Vancouver (provincial electoral district)|North Vancouver]]
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| term_start2      = 1928
| term_end2        = 1930

| constituency_MP3 = [[Vancouver Centre]]
| parliament3      = Canadian
| predecessor3     = [[Henry Herbert Stevens]]
| successor3       = [[Rodney Young (politician)|Rodney Young]]
| term_start3      = 1930
| term_end3        = 1948

| office4          = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for Vancouver Centre, British Columbia
| appointed4       = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]
| term_start4      = 1948
| term_end4        = 1949

| birth_date       = {{birth date|1890|7|27}}
| birth_place      = Assynt, Scotland
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1949|9|2|1890|7|27}}
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| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
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'''Ian Alistair Mackenzie''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PCc|PC}} (July 27, 1890 &ndash; September 2, 1949) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] parliamentarian.

==Life and career==
Born in [[Assynt]], Scotland, Mackenzie entered politics by winning a seat in the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] (BC) in the [[1920 British Columbia general election|1920 BC election]]. He served as Provincial Secretary of British Columbia from June 5, 1928, to August 20, 1928. In 1930, he was appointed to Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]'s pre-election [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]] as Minister of Immigration and Colonization and [[Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Canada)|Superintendent of Indian Affairs]]. While he won his seat in the [[1930 Canadian federal election|1930 federal election]] the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] was defeated across the country. Mackenzie entered Parliament as an [[parliamentary opposition|Opposition]] [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP).

When the Liberals returned to power through the [[1935 Canadian federal election|1935 election]], Mackenzie returned to Cabinet as [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]], where he had the responsibility for pre-war rearmament. With the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1939, however, Mackenzie was moved to the position of Minister of Pensions and National Health, in part because of his role in a scandal involving the awarding of a contract to manufacture the [[Bren light machine gun]]. In 1944, he became [[Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Veterans Affairs]].

Mackenzie was an able parliamentarian, and when the increasing pressures of war led Prime Minister King to decide to delegate some of his responsibilities in the House of Commons to the new position of [[Government House Leader]], he chose Mackenzie as the first MP to hold that responsibility.

During the war, Mackenzie pandered to [[anti-Japanese sentiment]] in [[British Columbia]] by declaring to his constituents at his 1944 nomination meeting "Let our slogan be for British Columbia: 'No Japs from the Rockies to the seas.{{'"}} As British Columbia's senior cabinet minister Mackenzie had a key role in the government's decision to [[Japanese Canadian Internment|intern Japanese-Canadian]]s for the duration of the war.

In 1947, Mackenzie was named to the [[Imperial Privy Council]] along with several other senior Canadian cabinet ministers, allowing him to use the honorific of "Right Honourable". In 1948, he was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]]. He served only a year and a half until his death in 1949.

== Archives ==
There is an Ian MacKenzie [[fonds]] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ian MacKenzie fonds, Library and Archives Canada|url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=105602&lang=eng|access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=16985}}

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