Bob Rae
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Robert Keith Rae is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal and provincial parliaments.
Rae in 2019
The Ontario Legislative Building, from which Rae governed Ontario as the first NDP premier of the province
Retail stores along Yonge Street in Toronto, circa 1990, at a time when the issue of Sunday shopping was being debated in Ontario
Rae attending a protest in Toronto Centre
Ontario New Democratic Party
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The Ontario New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition in Ontario following the 2018 general election. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL).
Donald C. MacDonald, CCF/NDP Leader from 1953 to 1970. Seen here in February 2007.
Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton in February 2007.