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‘Always in a good mood and a team player’: Ex-Liberal MP, artist Eugène Bellemare dies at 86

Plus, Liberal MP Salma Zahid announced on July 16 she is cancer free and will be returning to the Hill in fall, and a pilot program this year will help link scientists with politicians.

The late former Liberal MP Eugène Bellemare stands in front of a wall of caricatures he drew. He died earlier this month. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN, SHRUTI SHEKAR

July 18, 2018

In December 1988, during Liberal MP Eugène Bellemare’s first days in the House, in his maiden speech he spoke of “living in the shadow of our Parliament” since a young age, and seeing prime ministers walking in the streets. The four-term Ottawa MP and former...

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