Blair Longley
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Blair Longley | |
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| Born | Blair Timmothy Longley September 25, 1950 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Politician, activist |
| Known for | Leader of Marijuana Party |
Blair Timmothy Longley (born September 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician and activist.
Early life
Blair Longley was born on September 25, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in North Vancouver.[1][2]
Career
Longley attended the founding meeting of the Green Party of Canada in 1983. He went on to be an active member of the Rhinoceros Party of which he was an official agent from 1985 to 1987.
He joined the Marijuana Party shortly after its foundation and became the leader of the Marijuana Party in 2004, following the resignation of Marc-Boris St-Maurice.[3]
He has been a candidate for the House of Commons of Canada on three occasions, each time with a different party label. He ran for the Green Party in the 1984 election in the riding of Burnaby placing a distant fourth of four candidates with 364 of 58,991 votes.[citation needed] In 1988 he ran against opposition leader John Turner, with no party affiliation, and placed ninth of twelve candidates with 52 of 54,654 votes.[citation needed]
Longley ran for the Bloc pot in the 2003 Quebec provincial election.[citation needed] He later ran for the Marijuana Party in the riding of North Okanagan—Shuswap in 2004 and placed fifth of eight candidates with 492 of 51,765 votes,[citation needed] then in 2008 in the riding of Hochelaga, Quebec, placing eighth of nine with 183 of 45,683 votes.[citation needed]
Following the legalization of cannabis in Canada, Longley said it was "going to be harder than ever now for the [Marijuana] party to exist".[4] Only four candidates ran for the Marijuana Party in the 2019 federal election.[5] Longley is currently the Marijuana Party's chief agent, in addition to being the Party's leader, and so is ineligible to run in federal elections. Since legalization, Longley has shifted the Marijuana Party's message towards scrutinizing the "rapid capitalization" of the drug.[6]
Electoral record
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| 2004 Canadian federal election: North Okanagan—Shuswap | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Darrel Stinson | 24,014 | 46.39% | – | $73,168 | |||
| New Democratic | Alice Brown | 12,528 | 24.20% | – | $36,696 | |||
| Liberal | Will Hansma | 11,636 | 22.47% | – | $51,772 | |||
| Green | Erin Nelson | 2,333 | 4.50% | – | $960 | |||
| Marijuana | Blair Longley | 492 | 0.95% | – | $400 | |||
| Independent | Gordon Campbell | 401 | 0.77% | – | ||||
| Canadian Action | Claire Foss | 257 | 0.49% | – | $1,558 | |||
| Independent | K. No. Daniels | 104 | 0.20% | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 51,765 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 174 | 0.34% | ||||||
| Turnout | 51,939 | |||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | John Turner | 24,021 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bill Clarke | 16,664 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Gerry Scott | 11,687 | ||||||
| Reform | J.R. Jack Ford | 1,112 | ||||||
| Rhinoceros | John Turner (no relation) | 760 | ||||||
| Libertarian | Walter Boytinck | 129 | ||||||
| Communist | Bert Ogden | 75 | ||||||
| Independent | Albert A. Ritchie | 74 | ||||||
| Independent | Blair T. Longley | 52 | ||||||
| Confederation of Regions | Nora Galenzoski | 35 | ||||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | G.J. Joseph Jackman | 23 | ||||||
| Independent | Allen Soroka | 22 | ||||||
| 1984 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| New Democratic | Svend Robinson | 28,318 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bill Langas | 20,697 | ||||||
| Liberal | Mike Hillman | 9,612 | ||||||
| Green | Blair T. Longley | 364 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Leaders and Parties -Blair Longley Marijuana Party". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ Bio from the Marijuana Party website
- ^ Kassam, Ashifa (2018-06-07). "One party is dreading marijuana legalization: the Marijuana party". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ Harris, Kathleen (2018-10-22). "Party's over? Legalization could spell the end of the Marijuana Party". CBC News. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ McKenzie-Sutter, Holly (2019-10-04). "N.L. Marijuana Party hopeful misses nomination deadline over paperwork confusion". CTV News Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Lum, Zi-Ann (2018-10-27). "Canada's Marijuana Party Leader Is Pissed About Pot Legalization". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
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