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and caused them to lose official party status without him. He formed his own political party, the Cape Breton Labour Party, to contest the 1984 provincial election. He served one-term as its leader, before the party disintegrated because of financial issues. He eventually joined the
Liberal Party of Nova Scotia, and became a Liberal member of the legislature. In 1993, he became the Speaker of the House of Assembly. His term as the speaker was marked with many controversies around bias and partisanship. His final years in the legislature saw him take prominent roles as Party Whip for the Liberals. After several health issues, he decided to not run for office again in 2003. He retired and lived another 14 years before finally succumbing to health issues in 2017, at age 74 in Sydney.
413:. His tenure was often controversial, with accusations of bias lodged by the opposition regarding his policing debates, for creative interpretations of the rules that favour government, and for attending government caucus meetings. He served as speaker until November 1996. He later served as Government House Leader, Chair of the Committee on Private and Local Bills, Deputy Government House Leader, and Caucus Whip. After the Liberals lost power in 1999, he continued to serve as their Deputy House Leader and Whip, and was critic for the Department of Labour and the Workers Compensation Board.
328:, who served as the leader of the Nova Scotia NDP from 1968 to 1980. Akerman won the party leadership by four votes in 1968, at a convention where MacEwan persuaded eight uncommitted youth delegates to support Alkerman. On 13 October 1970, he and Akerman were the first two NDP MLAs elected in Nova Scotia's history. The 1970 election saw the ruling Progressive Conservatives (PCs) defeated after 14 years in power. They were replaced by the Liberals headed by
393:, which presented itself as a rival political party to the others participating in the 1984 provincial election. The main issue separating the Labor Party from the NDP was freedom of speech, which MacEwan maintained the NDP no longer practised, as shown by the party's response to his criticism of Theman's reading recommendations. The party ran three candidates on the Nova Scotian mainland in addition to the eleven seats on Cape Breton Island.
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374:, had to settle the Paul MacEwan question. On 9 December 1980, she managed to get her former leadership rivals to vote MacEwan out of the caucus and party. Since she did not have a seat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, the party was left with just two seats, because MacEwan was now an independent, and Akerman's seat was left vacant due to his resignation.
381:, MacEwan ran for re-election in the Cape Breton Nova electoral district as an independent candidate. He was the only independent elected to the legislature that year. As for McDonough's NDP, although she got elected in the Halifax area, the party lost the rest of their Cape Breton seats and official party status in the House of Assembly.
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Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Nova Scotia history. He was a contentious politician, who seemed to court controversy. So much so, he was kicked out of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP) while he was a sitting member of the assembly in 1980
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Democrat: 1970, 1974, and 1978; then, in 1981, as an independent; in 1984, on the Labour Party ticket; in 1988, again as an independent; and in 1993, 1998, and 1999, as a Liberal. He obtained 80 per cent of the vote cast in 1993 and over 50 per cent in 1998
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Legislature. He holds the record as the Nova Scotia MLA with the
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Liberal nomination in Cape Breton Nova, whereupon he was admitted to the Liberal caucus early in 1990. When the Liberals formed the government of Nova Scotia in 1993, he was unanimously
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Mainland wings of the party. This rift exploded in June, when MacEwan, the NDP MLA for
400:. The Labour Party was the fourth political party in Nova Scotian history to elect someone to the Legislature. Following the 1984 election, however, the party had to cease operations, due to lack of sufficient revenue to carry on its operations.
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The Akerman Years: Jeremy Akerman and the Nova Scotia NDP, 1965-1980,
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583:"Void facing N.S. New Democrats as leader to resign after 12 years"
273:, from which he held a B.A. degree. He then worked as a teacher in
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648:"Nova Scotia MLA threatens to establish alternate NDP"
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755:. Toronto. Canadian Press. 3 October 1980. p. 8.
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936:"Nova Scotia's 'Wizard of Oz' election"
779:. Toronto. Canadian Press. p. 10.
612:"Caustic Cape Bretoner a pariah in NDP"
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904:MacEwan, Paul (14 September 2008).
876:"N.S. NDP leader faces lonely road"
873:Harris, Michael (20 October 1981).
854:from the original on 10 March 2014
682:"Party wrangling in the Maritimes"
459:Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1994
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965:Flaherty, Elaine (28 June 1993).
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295:Nova Scotia New Democratic Party
1264:People from Sydney, Nova Scotia
751:"NDP appoints interim leader".
645:Yaffe, Barbara (30 June 1980).
590:. The Canadian Press. p. 4
417:Declining health and retirement
404:As an independent and a Liberal
315:Confederation and the Maritimes
263:Saint Francis Xavier University
1249:Politicians from Charlottetown
1239:Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs
1001:CP Staff (26 September 1996).
772:"MLA expelled from NDP caucus"
609:Yaffe, Barbara (6 June 1980).
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906:"Letters to the Editor"
885:. Toronto. p. 10.
619:. Toronto. p. 11.
1163:. 2007. Archived from
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477:MacEwan, Paul (1976).
336:Expulsion from the NDP
271:Cape Breton University
240:. His 33 years in the
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161:Prince Edward Island
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847:. Queen's Printer.
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457:O'Handley, Kathryn
321:published in 1980.
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