Douglas Gooderham Ross (15 December 1883 – 24 August 1961) was a Canadian politician and businessman. Ross represented the riding of St. Paul's from 1935 to 1949. He was a member of the Conservatives, and later the Progressive Conservatives.^[1]

Ross's bête noires during his parliamentary career were Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and government bureaucracy - all of which he railed against as an MP.^[1]

He accused King of encouraging Hitler by turning down a British request in 1937 to train 25,000 airmen a year, and subsequently criticized the government for its increasing economic reliance on trade with the "unstable" United States rather than the "stable" United Kingdom.^[2] He later implied that King was responsible for the war for not having articulated a clear policy within the British Commonwealth.^[1]

Once World War II began, Ross urged the registration of all men and women in the country as a war measure in order to mobilize all Canadian resources for the war effort and to curb espionage.^[1] After the war, he advocated universal voluntary military training for high school and university students.^{[citation needed]}

Ross criticized Max Ferguson's popular satirical Rawhide show as "meaningless ravings and tripe" and as an insult to the intelligence of Canadians.^[1]

In his professional life, Ross was vice-president of the Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company.^[1]

• Douglas Ross – Parliament of Canada biography

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