John Edward "Ed" Broadbent PC CC (March 21, 1936 – January 11, 2024) was a Canadian social-democratic politician, political scientist, and political activist. He was the chair of the Broadbent Institute. Broadbent was born in Oshawa, Ontario.
He was leader of the New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989.
In the 2004 federal election, he returned to Parliament for one additional term as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.[1] Before, he represented Oshawa in the parliament between 1968 to 1990.
Between 2014 until her death in 2016, he was married to historian Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Broadbent died on January 11, 2024 in Ottawa, Ontario at the age of 87.[2][3]
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