base where the bodies of Canadian soldiers were arriving from Afghanistan, Thompson said he would shoot any media member if they attempted to come on site to cover a dead son of his. In June 2007, Thompson announced that he would not be running for re-election, and as a result stepped down from Parliament after the 2008 federal election. Personal life Thompson's son, Dennis Thompson, who also has dual American-Canadian citizenship, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1996 and later served for a year in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thompson died of pancreatic cancer on January 5, 2019, at the age of 82. References External links 1936 births Adams State University alumni American emigrants to Canada Canadian Alliance MPs Conservative Party of Canada MPs 2019 deaths Mayors of places in Alberta Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta Reform Party of Canada MPs United States Army soldiers People from Mountain View County People from Rio Grande County, Colorado Military personnel from Colorado Baseball players from Colorado 21st-century Canadian politicians Deaths from cancer in Alberta Deaths from pancreatic cancer Canadian schoolteachers