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Blaikie was appointed as the NDP's Social Policy Critic in 1979, and was promoted to Health Critic in 1980.
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An early and prominent example of this was The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries by Piers Blaikie in 1985, which traced land degradation in Africa to colonial policies of land appropriation, rather than over-exploitation by African farmers.
This position was not part of the NDP's official party policy, leading some high-profile party members, such as NDP House Leader Bill Blaikie and former NDP leader Alexa McDonough, to publicly indicate that they did not share Layton's views.
Schreyer then offered his support to, but was not actively involved in the campaign of, Bill Blaikie, during the latter's bid to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2002 and 2003.
Blaikie was the Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2008.
Blaikie was born to a working-class family in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Blaikie served in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada from 1967 to 1972, and was a labourer on and off with the Canadian National Railway from 1969 to 1974 while attending University.
Blaikie was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1979 federal election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative MP Dean Whiteway ( who had previously been elected in the riding of Selkirk, which was eliminated by redistribution ).
Blaikie was comfortably re-elected in his own riding.
Blaikie was again returned for his riding, and was appointed as NDP Environment Critic in the new parliament.
When de Jong was eliminated on the second ballot at a delegated convention, Blaikie moved to the camp of Audrey McLaughlin, the eventual winner.
Blaikie was appointed as NDP Taxation Critic in 1990.
Between 1993 and 1997, Blaikie was the only New Democratic Party MP to represent a riding east of Saskatchewan.
When Nystrom was eliminated at the party's convention, Blaikie shifted his support to the winner, Alexa McDonough.
Blaikie was named as House Leader, while continuing as International Trade Critic and adding the Intergovernmental Affairs portfolio.
Blaikie was re-elected to a seventh term in 2000, as the Liberals won a third majority government under Chrétien.
Blaikie was not closely affiliated with either camp.
Blaikie was the first declared candidate in the 2003 leadership election.
Blaikie was seen as a representative of the party's moderate left, fitting ideologically between the centrist Lorne Nystrom and the more left-wing Jack Layton.
Blaikie continued as Deputy Leader and Defence Critic, and was also named as Health Critic.
Following the resumption of parliament in April, Blaikie was named as Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
Blaikie was an advocate for the reform of parliamentary institutions throughout his time in parliament.
Blaikie and appointed
With no seat in the House of Commons, he appointed the runner-up, longtime Winnipeg-area MP Bill Blaikie, as parliamentary leader.
Blaikie finished second to Jack Layton, who appointed him as Deputy Leader after the convention.
On November 3, 2009 Blaikie was appointed to the cabinet of Premier Greg Selinger as the Minister of Conservation and Government House Leader.
Blaikie and NDP's
As Layton did not have a seat in the Commons, Blaikie also served as the NDP's parliamentary leader until the 2004 federal election.
Blaikie and Social
An ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, Blaikie was a prominent heir to the Social Gospel, Christian left tradition deeply rooted in the NDP.
Blaikie and 1979
In 1979, the related provisions ( articles 7 through 13 ) were rendered inoperative by a ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in Attorney General of Quebec v. Blaikie ; however, Quebec responded by re-enacting in French and in English the Charter of the French Language, leaving intact articles 7 through 13.
It was challenged in 1979 by Peter Blaikie, Roland Durand and Yoine Goldstein ( Attorney General of Quebec v. Blaikie ).
Blaikie and .
Shortly after, he joined the Montreal law firm Heenan Blaikie as counsel.
Recognizing these flaws in political economy and cultural ecology, geographers and anthropologists ( Wolf 1972 ; Blaikie 1985, Greenberg & Park 1994 ; Hershkovitz 1993 ) worked with the strengths of both to form the basis of political ecology.
* Blaikie, P., and Brookfield, H. Land Degradation and Society.
* Blaikie, Piers.
These included: Thomas Blaikie, a Scottish horticultural expert, another Scottish gardener, Alexander Howatson, the botanist, Ventenat, and the horticulturist, Andre Dupont.
An early book of poetry published with a friend John Arthur Blaikie gave him an introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Layton won on the first ballot with 53. 5 % of the vote, defeating Bill Blaikie, Lorne Nystrom, Joe Comartin and Pierre Ducasse.
One common cause of conflict occurs when differing approaches to ministry compete in the minds of clergy, congregation and community, as Norman Blaikie found in Australian clergy from six Protestant denominations.
William Alexander " Bill " Blaikie, PC ( born June 19, 1951 ) is a Canadian politician.
Blaikie had the longest continuous parliamentary record in the 39th Canadian parliament, and in this capacity served as the Dean of the House.
The New Democratic Party has never formed the national government in Canada, and Blaikie served in Ottawa for 29 years as an opposition MP.
In her memoirs, Bégin wrote that Blaikie waged " guerilla warfare " in the House of Commons over the issue.
In the same year, Blaikie brought forward a private member's bill calling for a three-year moratorium on the construction and export of nuclear power stations, to be followed by a national referendum on any further development.
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