Joe Maingot wrote the book on parliamentary privilege, and he was my lifelong friend

Joe Maingot became one the country's leading experts on parliamentary privilege, was well-known in the Hill community, and kept active all his life. In July 28, 2022, the 91-year old cycled from his Sandy Hill home to The Hill Times' downtown newsroom to say hello.

In 2012, Joe Maingot returned to Iqaluit to visit the community where he'd served as the first postmaster in 1956-57. Samantha Dawson, writing in the Nunatsiaq News, reported that 'Maingot remembers dodging pools of water while travelling across the sea ice in a qamutik attached to 10 dogs in the middle of the summer 56 years ago.'Photograph courtesy of Samantha Dawson/Nunatsiaq News

Opinion

BY IAN MORRISON

November 6, 2023

I first met Joseph Maingot during a public hearing of the Senate’s Special Committee on Poverty on Dec. 4, 1969, chaired by Senator David Croll. I was a young program co-ordinator for the Frontier College, and Joe showed up because he had served as a college labourer-teach...

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