Conservative MP David Anderson is one of the more senior MPs in Ottawa, having been first elected in 2000 under the Canadian Alliance colours to replace the outgoing Lee Morrison.
David grew up on the family farm in Frontier, Sask., a homestead that his Swedish immigrant grandparents settled in 1911. David developed a keen interest in politics when he was a young boy and earned a political science degree from the University of Regina.
David didn't think of making politics a career and returned to the family farm where he and wife Sheila, a voice teacher, spent the next several years raising their two children: daughter Amy, now a lawyer in Swift Current, and son Andrew, a carpenter in Nanaimo.
For several years David was the chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast and is now parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and the Canadian Wheat Board. David Anderson spoke to Catherine Clark about his life Beyond Politics.
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