Bill Blaikie
honourable the rev. William Alexander (Bill) Blaikie , C.P., M.Div, B.A. (born the June 19th 1951 with Winnipeg, with the Manitoba) is a Canadian Politician and assistant chief of the Nouveau Democratic party (NPD). It is the Député with the longest states of service to the House of Commons of Canada, having been elected in 1979, and in this capacity acts as senior of the Room.
Blaikie is used in the Canadian Armée with 1967 for 1972. It is railroad worker Canadian National of 1969 with 1974. It obtains a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies of the Université of Winnipeg, and a control as a divinity of the Collège Emmanuel with Toronto. It is ordered minister in the plain Église of Canada the June 4th 1978, and preaches the social Gospel in the tradition of other important reverends of the democratic social Parti (the predecessor of the NPD) and of the NPD like Tommy Douglas, J.S. Woodsworth and Stanley Knowles.
Blaikie is elected with the House of Commons of Canada at the time of the elections of 1979, demolishing the deputy outgoing progressist-conservative Dean Whiteway. He was re-elected in his district in each election since. Its tightest election was in the election of 1993, when it beat the liberal candidate Art Miki by only 219 votes during one time of popularity reduced for its party. Between 1993 and 1997, he is the only deputy néo-democrat representing a district in the east of the Saskatchewan. It supported the countryside with the leadership of Simon de Jong in 1989, and that of Lorne Nystrom in 1995.
Blaikie itself is candidate with the direction of the party in 2003, and finishes second behind Jack Layton. As a concession with Blaikie at once, Layton appoints it assistant chief of the NPD. As Layton is without seat with the communes, Blaikie acts as parliamentary chief of the NPD until the election of 2004 - a nomination which enables him to be sworn in member of the private Council. In the Shadow cabinet néo-democrat, Blaikie is currently critical Work and democratic Revival in addition to assistant chief.
Blaikie is one of the most important partisans of the Loi on clearness chief clerk in the caucus néo-democrat, a position which places it in conflict with Layton. He is also opposed to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well as an opponent with the Canadian participation in the anti-missile shield proposed by the the United States.
Blaikie is also opposed to the big role granted to the " policy identitaire" within the Canadian left, and he affirms that the NPD places too importance on social questions like the Avortement and the Homosexual marriage. Although its opinions are very liberal on the social plan (it supports the homosexual marriage in Canada), the position of Blaikie is that the economic needs for the Canadian workmen and the people to weak returned must be the principal battle field of the party. Here also, Blaikie holds a divergent position of that of Layton, which support as much the " policy identitaire" that the economic policies progressists.
The girl of Blaikie, Rebecca Blaikie, was candidate néo-democrat in the district of the Prime Minister Paul Martin in her district of LaSalle-Émard with Montreal in the election of 2004.
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