Blair Timmothy Longley (born September 25, 1950 in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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) is a Canadian

Canada

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 politician

Politician

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 and activist.

Longley attended the founding meeting of the Green Party of Canada

Green Party of Canada

The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...

 in 1983 and went on to be an active member of the Rhinoceros Party of which he was official agent from 1985 to 1987.

He joined the Marijuana Party shortly after its founding and he became the leader of the Marijuana Party in 2005, following the resignation of Marc-Boris St-Maurice

Marc-Boris St-Maurice

Marc-Boris St-Maurice is an activist, political and Canadian musician, who has campaigned for many years for the legalization of cannabis, and to facilitate access to the drug for health reasons. He lives in Montreal.-Music career:...

.

He has been a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons

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 on three occasions, each time with a different party label. He ran for the Green Party in the 1984 election

Canadian federal election, 1984

The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada...

 in the riding of Burnaby

Burnaby (electoral district)

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 placing a distant fourth of four candidates with 364 of 58,991 votes. In 1988

Canadian federal election, 1988

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 he ran against opposition leader

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 John Turner, with no party affiliation, and placed ninth of twelve candidates with 52 of 54,654 votes.

Longley ran for the Bloc pot

Bloc pot

The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested three provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was launched in 1997 by Marc-Boris St-Maurice as a way to...

 in the 2003 Quebec provincial election

Quebec general election, 2003

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. He later ran for the Marijuana Party in the riding of North Okanagan—Shuswap in 2004

Canadian federal election, 2004

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 and placed fifth of eight candidates with 492 of 51,765 votes, then in 2008

Canadian federal election, 2008

The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the previous parliament had been dissolved by the Governor General on September 7, 2008...

 in the riding of Hochelaga

Hochelaga (electoral district)

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, Quebec, placing eighth of nine with 183 of 45,683 votes.

Electoral record

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See also

• Canadian federal election, 2008
  Canadian federal election, 2008
  The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the previous parliament had been dissolved by the Governor General on September 7, 2008...