Adam Daifallah (2004 - 2005)

Canada

Living in Sauvé House changed my views on certain issues and made me think about others in ways I had not considered before.

Adam Daifallah is an author, journalist and lawyer (he passed his Bar exams in December 2008)  living in Montreal and articling with the firm of Ogilvy Renault.

Adam was a member of the editorial board at Canada’s National Post in Toronto from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was a Washington, D.C. correspondent of The New York Sun.

Before becoming a journalist, Adam was active in student and party politics at the local, provincial and national levels. He was president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Campus Association for the 2001-2002 school year, and policy director of the PC Youth Federation of Canada from 1998 until 2000.

He is co-author, with Tasha Kheiriddin, of the book Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, which the Toronto Sun called “the most forward-thinking book on Canadian conservatism in more than a generation.” He worked on the book during his time as a Sauvé Scholar, it was published in the fall of 2005 and a book launch was held at Sauvé House.

Adam’s first book, Gritlock: Are the Liberals in Forever?, written with Peter G. White in 2001, was a manifesto advocating a merger of the old Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties.

A native of Peterborough, Ontario, Adam is a former provincial champion junior golfer and curler. He is a graduate of Queen’s University (BAH, History and Political Studies, 2002) and Université Laval in (LLB, 2008).

Recent articles published in the National Post

• Putting some sex in federalism 
  Who isn't at least mildly intrigued by the idea of founding a new country? It conjures up all sorts of romantic notions and fuzzy feelings. Defending federalism is defending the status quo -- which is almost always more difficult.
• Adam Daifallah on the death of William F. Buckley: A public intellectual in the truest sense
• Bye-Bye, Mr. Nice Guy 
  Watching Canadian Conservative parties lose elections is like a young child watching his favourite tragic movie: Despite the sad ending, he hopes that this time, it will turn out differently.