Frank Scott
Frank Scott
Francis Reginald Scott, CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction. He was married to artist Marian Dale Scott...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 August 1899
CountryCanada
My father wrote poetry all the time and published a great deal so I was accustomed to it, and I wrote a little bit at Oxford, but not much.
Hence my continued dislike of the way the Privy Council interpreted the constitution, keeping it sort of rigid and stereotyped and unable to adapt.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
We were beginning to revolt against the old British Empire and its ideas and I met a lot of people in Montreal who shared these views.