Judy LaMarsh

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Julia Verlyn LaMarsh Template:Post-nominals (December 20, 1924 – October 27, 1980) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister. Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare. As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967. After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio. She was stricken with pancreatic cancer in 1979 and was given the Order of Canada at her hospital bed. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980.

Early lifeEdit

LaMarsh was born December 20, 1924, in Chatham, Ontario.<ref name="Burke">Template:Cite journal</ref> Of French and English descent, she was raised in Niagara Falls.<ref name="Burke" /> Although she trained as a teacher, she never taught school. In high school, she was a member of Alpha Chapter, Theta Kappa Sigma Sorority in Niagara Falls. During World War II, she enlisted in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, travelled the country from 1943 to 1946, and attained the rank of sergeant.<ref name="star obit"> Template:Cite news</ref> LaMarsh worked with the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers in Halifax and then, after studying Japanese in Vancouver,<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> served as a Japanese translator in Intelligence with Japanese-Canadian soldiers.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

After the war, she attended the University of Toronto's Victoria College and Osgoode Hall, where she was trained as a lawyer, graduating in 1950. She was called to the Bar of Ontario, and joined her father's law practice in Niagara Falls.<ref name="star obit"/>

Political careerEdit

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LaMarsh and Ambassador William Frederick Bull in 1963

After unsuccessful forays into Ontario provincial politics, LaMarsh was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a 1960 by-election. Sitting as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Niagara Falls, she joined the Canadian Cabinet after the Liberals defeated the Progressive Conservative government of John Diefenbaker in the 1963 election. Serving under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, she was the second female federal cabinet minister in Canadian history, and the first to serve in a Liberal cabinet. LaMarsh served as Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of Amateur Sport from 1963 to 1965, and as Secretary of State for Canada from 1965 to 1968.<ref name="Globe Obit"> Template:Cite news </ref>

Her period as Minister of National Health and Welfare coincided with the introduction of the Canada Pension Plan and the drafting of what was to become Canada's Medicare system.<ref name="Globe Obit" /> Besides shepherding the Medicare bill through parliament, she also became the first major western-world government official to oppose tobacco smoking publicly.<ref name="Smoking causes cancer"> Template:Cite news </ref> On June 17, 1963, she rose to speak on the floor of the House of Commons and declared: "There is scientific evidence that cigarette smoking is a contributory cause of lung cancer and that it may also be associated with chronic bronchitis and coronary heart disease."<ref name="Smoking causes cancer"/> As Secretary of State, she presided over the Canadian Centennial celebrations in 1967,<ref name ="gg"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> presented the Broadcasting Act of 1968 to Parliament,<ref>Geoffrey Stevens, "New commission to replace BBG proposed in Act". The Globe and Mail, October 18, 1967.</ref> and served on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.

In the 1968 Liberal leadership convention to choose a successor to Pearson, she supported Paul Hellyer. When it became clear after the first round of voting that Hellyer could not win, she urged him to drop off the ballot and throw his support to another candidate in order to stop Pierre Trudeau. Her words, uttered on the floor of the convention hall: "Paul, you've got to go to [Robert] Winters. Don't let that bastard win it, Paul – he isn't even a Liberal" were, unbeknownst to her, broadcast live over CBC Television.<ref name="Don't let the bastard win"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> She retired from politics after Trudeau won the party's leadership.<ref name="Cabinet resignation"> Template:Cite news </ref>

Post-political careerEdit

After politics, she returned to her work as a lawyer. She often took on civil rights cases, including the defense of the Brunswick Four in a prominent LGBT rights case in 1974.<ref>"Lawyer former cabinet member". The Advocate, March 13, 1974.</ref>

She published her political autobiography, entitled Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, in 1969, and the book sold very well. LaMarsh worked as a broadcaster including a part-time job with CBC Radio, hosting This Country in the Morning in 1974. From fall 1975 to spring 1976, she hosted her own show called Judy. It was broadcast weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to noon, nationally.<ref name=Judy> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref>

In April 1975, Ontario Premier William Davis chose her to head the Ontario government's Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry.<ref name="star obit"/> It spent two years coming up with 68 recommendations, many highly controversial ones like an omnibus government agency controlling all television content, and newspapers to be governed by a national council on ethics, that would police the industry for violations.<ref name="star obit"/> Civil liberty groups criticized the media recommendations as violations on free speech and freedom of the press grounds.<ref name="star obit"/>

Later life and deathEdit

In 1979, she decided to go back into law, and opened a family law practice.<ref name="star obit"/> In December 1979, LaMarsh was rushed to Sunnybrook Medical Centre where she was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer.<ref name="star obit"/> While receiving treatment for her cancer at Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital, Governor General Edward Schreyer invested her as an Officer of the Order of Canada, at her hospital bed on July 22, 1980.<ref name ="gg"/><ref name="gentle & loyal">Template:Cite news </ref> A few months later, just days away from the 20th anniversary of her first federal political victory, she died on October 27, 1980, aged 55.<ref name="star obit"/>

Her funeral was held in Niagara Falls on October 29, 1980.<ref name="funeral">Template:Cite news </ref> She had six female pallbearers including: Edith Druggan and Florence Rosberg, of Niagara Falls, broadcaster Barbara Frum, British Columbia Judge Nancy Morrison, lawyer Pamela Verill Walker, and Doris Anderson, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women.<ref name="funeral"/> It was a short service, attended by 300 friends and dignitaries including Ontario's premier William Davis, former Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Pauline McGibbon, and several federal politicians including the man she backed for federal Liberal leader in 1968, Paul Hellyer.<ref name="funeral"/> She was laid to rest next to her parents, at a graveyard that bordered the historic Canadian battleground, Lundy's Lane.<ref name="funeral"/>

BooksEdit

ArchivesEdit

There is a Judy LaMarsh fonds at Library and Archives Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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