Background
He grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, graduating from Chilliwack Senior Secondary School in 1962.
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He grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, graduating from Chilliwack Senior Secondary School in 1962.
He studied at the University of British Columbia and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in the history of religion.
He was class president He presented a dissertation titled The Color Lincolnshire and the American Metropolis: A Search for a Form of Ministry in the Aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago (1974). After Chicago, he worked for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for 21 years, serving as Director of Social Policy.
Clarke was the chair of the Action Canada Network, a coalition of labor groups and activists to lead the battle against the 1987 Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
These activists joined forces with anti-free traders from Mexico and the United States to oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement. As a result of his leadership role in the anti-free trade movement, Clarke was fired from the Conference of Bishops.
In the years since leaving the Conference of Bishops, Clarke has continued his activism, working closely with Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians. In 1997 he formed the Polaris Institute., and led the campaigns against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the World Trade Organization.
As of December 2011 Clarke sits on the board of directors of the International Forum on Globalization.
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