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Blair Longley
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| Leader of the Marijuana Party | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Marc-Boris St-Maurice |
| Chief Officer of the Marijuana Party | |
| Assumed office 2019 | |
| Chief Agent of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada | |
| In office 1985–1987 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 25, 1950 Vancouver, Canada |
| Political party | Marijuana Party of Canada |
| Other political affiliations | Bloc Pot Rhinoceros Party Green Party |
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Blair Timmothy Longley (born September 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician, activist, and leader of the Marijuana Party.
Blair Longley was born on September 25, 1950, in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in North Vancouver.[1][2]
Longley attended the founding meeting of the Green Party of CanadaatCarleton University in November 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 party's leader in 2004, following the resignation of Marc-Boris St-Maurice.[3]
He has been a candidate for the House of Commons of Canada on four occasions, with three different party labels. He ran for the Green Party in the 1984 election in the ridingofBurnaby placing a distant fourth of four candidates with 364 of 58,991 votes.[citation needed]In1988 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—Shuswapin2004 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]
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Réal Ménard | 22,720 | 49.73 | −5.85 | $28,893 | |||
| Liberal | Diane Dicaire | 9,442 | 20.67 | +3.43 | not listed | |||
| New Democratic | Jean-Claude Rocheleau | 6,600 | 14.45 | +5.54 | $21,479 | |||
| Conservative | Luc Labbé | 4,201 | 9.20 | −3.01 | $8,586 | |||
| Green | Philippe Larochelle | 1,946 | 4.26 | −0.60 | not listed | |||
| neorhino.ca | Simon Landry | 230 | 0.50 | – | not listed | |||
| Communist | Marianne Breton Fontaine | 184 | 0.40 | $898 | ||||
| Marijuana | Blair T. Longley | 183 | 0.40 | −0.32 | not listed | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Christine Dandenault | 177 | 0.39 | −0.09 | not listed | |||
| Total valid votes | 45,683 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 644 | |||||||
| Turnout | 46,327 | 58.24 | −0.07 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 79,542 | |||||||
| Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Yolande James | 7,812 | 52.58 | |||||
| Independent | Michel Gibson | 4,038 | 27.18 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Sahar Hawili | 1,538 | 10.35 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Tom Pentefountas | 1,039 | 6.99 | |||||
| Green | Ryan Young | 251 | 1.69 | – | ||||
| UFP | Josée Larouche | 120 | 0.81 | – | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Blair Longley | 58 | 0.39 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,856 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 62 | |||||||
| Turnout | 14,918 | 28.60 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 52,163 | |||||||
| Sources: Official Results, Government of Quebec | ||||||||
| 2003 Quebec general election: D'Arcy-McGee | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Lawrence Bergman | 23,968 | 91.29 | +0.68 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Mathieu Breault | 1,087 | 4.14 | +1.02 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Sylvain James Bowes | 520 | 1.98 | +0.73 | ||||
| Equality | William F. Shaw | 406 | 1.55 | -2.81 | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Blair T. Longley | 274 | 1.04 | – | ||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Quadra | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
| Preceded by | Marijuana Party of Canada leaders 2004-present |
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