Hundreds of people, including the prime minister, cabinet members and former political opponents, attended a memorial service in Winnipeg for the Liberal member of Parliament who died this week at age 71.
WINNIPEG - Politicians of all stripes joined hundreds of mourners who gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to Jim Carr, the Liberal member of Parliament who died five days earlier at the age of 71 following a battle with cancer.
Carr was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1988 and served for four years. He later became president of the Business Council of Manitoba, then ran for federal office in 2015. “Even at the time of Meech Lake, he was a person who was always looking for a positive solution and he always had a wonderful view of life and what was good for Canada,” Filmon said.
Kevin Lamoureux, a Liberal caucus colleague of Carr’s at both the provincial and national levels, said Carr was a politician who was respected by all parties — an attribute that showed recently after the Commons passed a private member’s bill that Carr had put forward.“The Bloc voted against his bill, but they respected his argument.”
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