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Jim Walding was born on 9 May, 1937 in Rushden, England, is a Canadian politician. Discover Jim Walding's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Rushden, England |
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23 April, 2007 |
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Manitoba, Canada |
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Jim Walding Net Worth
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Derek James Walding (May 9, 1937 – April 23, 2007) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
He moved to Canada in 1961 and worked in Winnipeg as a dispensing optician and contact lens fitter.
Walding had supported the Labour Party in Britain.
In 1963, joined the similar New Democratic Party in Canada and served on the party's provincial executive in the 1960s.
Walding first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1969 provincial election.
He initially sought the NDP nomination in the northeastern Winnipeg division of Radisson, but he lost to Harry Shafransky.
He was later recruited as the party's candidate for the nearby division of St. Vital, and lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Jack Hardy by only 23 votes.
He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1971 to 1988 and served as speaker of the assembly from 1982 to 1986.
Walding was a member of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba (NDP).
Hardy resigned from the legislature in February 1971, and Walding was nominated as the NDP candidate for the by-election to succeed him.
He was narrowly elected, defeating Liberal candidate Dan Kennedy by 295 votes.
The result, along with another by-election win on the same day, gave Premier Edward Schreyer a stable majority government in the provincial legislature.
Walding served as a backbench supporter of the Schreyer government and developed a strong reputation for constituency work.
He also chaired the private bills committee of the legislature and gave up his practice as an optician.
Walding voted against Schreyer's decision to extend public funding to denominational schools in a free vote of the legislature.
He faced a serious challenge from Kennedy in the 1973 election but won by 105 votes.
The New Democrats were defeated in the 1977 provincial election although Walding was personally re-elected with an increased plurality.
After Schreyer's appointment as Governor General of Canada in 1979, Walding endorsed Sidney Green in his unsuccessful bid to become interim NDP leader.
He later supported Pawley, the successful candidate, at the party's leadership convention.
The NDP returned to government in the 1981 provincial election.
Walding was not appointed to cabinet, as some had expected.
Instead, Pawley appointed him as speaker of the legislature on February 25, 1982.
Over the next four years, his relationship with Pawley became increasingly strained.
In 1983 and 1984, Walding allowed the opposition Progressive Conservatives to stall passage of the Pawley government's re-entrenchment of French-language rights.
Initially, the Conservatives refused to enter the chamber to vote on the legislation, and Walding refused to call a vote in their absence.
As a result, the division bells were allowed to ring for several hours at the end of each legislative day.
When NDP cabinet minister Andy Anstett restricted the amount of time that the bells could ring, the Conservatives boycotted the assembly entirely.
Walding still refused to call a vote.
On February 21, 1984, he refused a direct request from Pawley to move the legislative agenda forward.
The house was eventually prorogued with the issue still unresolved.
Many questioned the validity of Walding's decision.
Sidney Green, who had left the NDP by then and also opposed French-language re-entrenchment, still argued that Walding was wrong to give the Conservatives a means to disrupt the legislative process.
Walding's actions made him extremely unpopular with some segments of his party.
He was challenged for the St. Vital NDP nomination in 1986 by Gerri Unwin and Sig Laser, and he defeated Laser by a single vote on the second ballot.
Walding was re-elected in the general election of 1986 with a reduced majority.
The NDP was re-elected with a narrow majority government, and Pawley did not reappoint Walding as speaker.
In 1988, he brought down the NDP government of Howard Pawley by voting against his party's budget.
That was the first time in Canadian history that a majority government was defeated by a vote of one of its own party members.
Walding was born at Rushden, Northamptonshire, England, and was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School.
He spent three years with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, including a stint in West Berlin.