With a reputation as a bridge-builder, Carr was named minister for natural resources and, later, international trade diversification
Former Manitoba premier Gary Filmon, a Progressive Conservative, spoke as he entered the memorial service of Carr’s willingness to work across party lines, even during a time of constitutional debate.
Former NDP premier Gary Doer, who succeeded Filmon, remembered meeting Carr during their university days when Doer worked at a jail. 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.
Carr’s son Ben delivered the eulogy Saturday and said Carr’s willingness to listen was so extensive, it once led to a two-hour discussion with Jehovah’s Witnesses that had come to the family’s front door.
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