Career
He first entered Parliament in 1982, in a byelection following the death of the riding"s prior Member of Parliament, Bruce Lonsdale. On April 23, 1993, MacDougall became the centre of controversy when he made comments in the House of Commons attacking Sunera Thobani, the new head of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women:
Thobani, in fact, had just received her landed immigrant status, and MacDougall"s comments were widely criticized as racist. MacDougall did not run for reelection in the 1993 election.
