Fred Rose
Fred Rose (born Fred Rosenberg) (December 7 1907 - March 16 1983) was a Communist politician and trade union organiser in Canada. He was born in Lublin in what is now Poland and emigrated to Canada as a child in 1920. He became involved with the Young Communist League and then joined the Communist Party of Canada while working in a factory.
He was a candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in the working class Montreal area riding of Cartier in the 1935 Canadian election coming in second with 16% of the vote. Early in World War II the Communist Party was formally banned, it reorganised itself as the Labour Progressive Party. Rose won election to the House of Commons from Cartier in a 1943 by-election. He won with 30% of the vote in a tight four way race beating, among others, David Lewis of the CCF. Rose was re-elected in the 1945 Canadian election with 40% of the vote.
In 1946, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa defected to the Canadian government and exposed Rose as a Soviet spy. Rose was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, found guilty and sentenced to prison. On January 30, 1947 he was expelled from Parliament. Rose was released from prison after four and a half years and went into voluntary exile in Poland. In 1957 his citizenship was revoked.