‘Iconic’ Bill Blaikie: ‘a giant of a man’ among the ‘most distinguished social democrats of our age,’ says Ed Broadbent

Former NDP MP Bill Blaikie, who died on Sept. 24 of kidney cancer at the age of 71, will be remembered as a powerful and effective opposition MP. He also held the record for the longest continuous parliamentary service of any CCF/NDP MP in Canadian history.

NDP MPs Nathan Cullen, Olivia Chow, Bill Blaikie, and Paul Dewar, pictured at Maclean's magazine's party at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa on Nov. 21, 2007. Blaikie was voted the Best Parliamentarian of Year by his peers that year. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

September 29, 2022

By his stature, both physically and reputation, Bill Blaikie was a larger-than-life figure on Parliament Hill. NDP MP Brian Masse (Windsor West, Ont.) got a glimpse of the former when he met the veteran New Democrat Member of Parliament at the Windsor International Airport back in the spring of 2...

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