Editing Ed Broadbent (section)

==Early life==
John Edward Broadbent was born in [[Oshawa]], Ontario, the son of Percy, who worked at General Motors, and Mary (Welsh) Broadbent, a homemaker.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/ed-broadbent-from-oshawa-to-ottawa| title = CBC Archives}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1l6AAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+Welsh+Percy+Broadbent|title = Ed Broadbent: The Pursuit of Power|isbn = 9780670822553|last1 = Steed|first1 = Judy|year = 1988| publisher=Viking }}</ref>

In 1961, he married Yvonne Yamaoka, a [[Japanese Canadians|Japanese Canadian]] town planner whose family had been [[Japanese Canadian internment|interned by the federal government in World War II]]. They divorced in 1967.

Broadbent received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in [[political science]] from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1966, with a thesis titled "The Good Society of [[John Stuart Mill]],"<ref>{{cite book|last=Steed|first=Judy|title=Ed Broadbent: The Pursuit of Power|year=1988|publisher=Viking|pages=55}}</ref> under the supervision of [[C. B. Macpherson|C.B. Macpherson]].<ref name="Globe obit">{{cite news|title=Ed Broadbent took the NDP to new heights, and wished he could have gone higher|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ed-broadbent-took-the-ndp-to-new-heights-and-wished-he-could-have-gone/|first=Jeff|last=Gray|date=January 11, 2024|access-date=January 11, 2024|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111224142/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ed-broadbent-took-the-ndp-to-new-heights-and-wished-he-could-have-gone/|archive-date=January 11, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>