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Ed Broadbent

NDP leader · 1936-2024

Led the party for fourteen years and was consistently the most trusted politician in the country.

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Life story

1. March 21, 1936 · Oshawa, Ontario
   Born at Oshawa, a General Motors town
2. 1968 · Oshawa, Ontario
   Elected MP for Oshawa by fifteen votes
3. July 7, 1975 · Ottawa
   Became leader of the New Democratic Party
4. 1988 · Ottawa
   Took the NDP to 43 seats, its best result to that point, campaigning against free trade
5. 1990 · Ottawa
   Became founding head of the international human rights centre now called Equitas
6. January 11, 2024 · Ottawa
   Died in Ottawa

Sources

• Wikipedia article: Ed Broadbent
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Encyclopedia