Sears: Canada’s unknown political power couple, Ruth and Terry Grier via torontostar
There are very few Canadian couples who have shared important leadership roles in a political party at the same time, all while raising a large family. Often children join the family political business, and occasionally, one partner will succeed another in a new political career. But for a married couple to each pursue important political careers simultaneously is almost unheard of.
At environment, she shut down an absurd plan to send Toronto’s garbage across the province to dump in an abandoned northern mine. At health, she launched the Trillium Drug Plan, which one day one might hope Ottawa copies to make essential drugs available to all Canadians. Each were masters of conciliation, often playing facilitating roles between contending visions. Neither Terry nor Ruth were fire-breathers, but each had steely values. In his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1974, Terry was swarmed by anti-abortion activists, many bused in from the U.S. He ran into a fair number of anti-choice voters at the doorstep.
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