Born

• 7 June 1929, Richmond, Surrey, England
• Emigrated to Canada in 1932

• University of British Columbia, B.A. 1949
• Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, B.A Jurisprudence,
  1951, B.C.L 1952, M.A. 1957
• University of Paris 1952-1953

Married 1963, Geills McCrae Kilgour (b.1937)
• One daughter, three sons

• Lawyer(called to Quebec Bar in 1954,to the Ontario Bar in 1968)
• 1976-1984 Practised law in Toronto
• Currently practising Law

• Liberal
• 1984-1990 Party Leader

• 1962-1968 St-Laurent-St-Georges, Quebec
• 1968-1976 Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario
• 1984-1993 Vancouver Quadra, British Columbia

• 1965-1967 Minister Without Portfolio
• 1967 Registar General
• 1967-1968 Consumer and Corporate Affairs
• 1968 Solicitor General
• 1968-1972 Justice
• 1972-1975 Finance

• Criminal Code Amendment(hate propaganda) 1970
• Appointed Bora Laskin first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court 1970
• Creation of the Law Reform Commission 1971
• Leader of the Opposition 1984-1990