Diana Kerr, an Ottawa agricultural lobbyist for prairie cattle and grain interests for more than a quarter century, died March 1 after a 15 month battle with breast cancer. Kerr was 62.
Kerr first delved into the intricacies of prairie grain politics when she served as private secretary to then-transport minister Otto Lang in the late 1970s.
In 1981, after time in Rome at the World Food Program, she returned to Canada to manage the Ottawa office of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. It was shortly after the establishment of the CCA Ottawa office and Kerr worked to promote CCA issues, to arrange CCA leader lobby visits and to monitor Parliament Hill developments that could affect the sector.
Beginning in 1988, she acted as government liaison officer for the United Grain Growers and continued in that role with Agricore United.
