Tom Siddon, who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during the Oka crisis and later helped to establish Nunavut, has died. He was 84.
His daughter, Katie Siddon Karn, confirmed his death Sunday in a post on social media.
Siddon and his wife, Pat, had five children.
Siddon Karn said her father, who was originally from Alberta, “stumbled into politics” in the 1970s after speaking up at a public hearing.
“Not short of his own opinions, and incredibly intelligent, my dad was exceptionally skilled at building bridges and finding consensus,” she wrote.
Siddon began his political career as a councillor for the City of Richmond, B.C., and went on to be elected as a member of Parliament five times between 1978 and 1993….