Purdy Crawford, (November 7, 1931 – August 12, 2014) was a Canadian lawyer and businessman. Education Born in Five Islands, Nova Scotia, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1952, a bachelor of laws degree from Dalhousie Law School in 1955, and a master of laws from Harvard Law School in 1956. He was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1956 and the Bar of Ontario in 1958. He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1968. Law career In 1956, he joined the law firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt as a student. Specializing in corporate and commercial law, he became an associate lawyer in 1958, partner in 1962, and a senior partner from 1970 to 1985. He articled with Roland Ritchie in Halifax and studied labour law at Harvard with Archibald Cox, best known as the Watergate special prosecutor. From 1964 to 1968, he was a special lecturer at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and taught at the University of Toronto Law School from 1969 to 1971. In the early 1960s he worked with the Kimber Committee which recommended a new securities law for Ontario in 1965. He was involved in drafting the legislation to implement the Kimber recommendations. The new Securities Act was enacted in Ontario and subsequently in other provinces, and is the foundation of Canadian securities law. He re-joined Osler as counsel in 2000. Business career In 1985, he became president and chief operating officer of Imasco Ltd., becoming CEO in 1986, and chairman, president and CEO in 1987. He retired as CEO in 1995 and as chairman OF Imasco Ltd. in 2000. He was the chairman of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), chancellor of Mount Allison University and chairman of AT&T Canada. He was a corporate director for Canadian National Railway and was a member of the board of the Maple Leaf Foods as well as governor of the University of Waterloo. He was chairman of the Ontario Government's Crawford Panel on a Single Canadian Securities Regulator. Crawford acted as the lead negotiator for resolution of the Canadian financial institutions' crisis in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which was caused by the collapse in the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2007. Crawford sat on the boards of several large Canadian companies. He was chair of the Pan-Canadian Investors Committee for Third-Party