Ed Broadbent
John Edward Broadbent PC CC (March 21, 1936 – January 11, 2024) was a Canadian social-democratic politician and political scientist.[2][3] In 1961, he married Yvonne Yamaoka, a Japanese Canadian town planner whose family had been interned by the federal government in World War II.Broadbent received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in political science from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a thesis titled "The Good Society of John Stuart Mill,"[4] under the supervision of C.B.[6] He defeated Progressive Conservative MP Michael Starr, a former cabinet minister (under John Diefenbaker) and acting leader of the opposition, by fifteen votes in a close three-way race.[8] In 1974, Lewis himself retired as leader, due to a disappointing electoral result for the NDP in that year's federal election and ill health.[5] Despite the polling milestones prior to the election, the NDP was not successful in translating this into a major breakthrough, as they remained in third place (behind the second-place Liberals).[18] With the aid of a humorous and popular video clip,[19] he successfully ran for Parliament in the riding of Ottawa Centre, where he lived later in life.[20] In the NDP shadow cabinet, Broadbent was Critic for Democracy: Parliamentary & Electoral Reform, Corporate Accountability as well as Child Poverty.[23][24] In November 2008, Broadbent and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien came out of retirement to help to negotiate a formal coalition agreement between the Liberals and the New Democratic Party, which the Bloc Québécois would support.[29] Five years later, he published Seeking Social Democracy, a detailed reflection on his life and career, co-authored with academic Francis Abele, policy strategist Jonathan Sas, and journalist Luke Savage.
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