Jim Carr, a Liberal MP from Winnipeg and a former cabinet minister, has died. He was 71.
Winnipeg MP Kevin Lamoureux asked the House of Commons for a moment of silence before question period Monday. The parties then agreed to suspend the House for the rest of the day.
Carr had represented the riding of Winnipeg South Centre for the Liberals since 2015.
He served as the minister of natural resources and then the minister of internal trade diversification between 2015 and 2019.
In 2019, the day after being re-elected as an MP, he was diagnosed with the blood cancer multiple myeloma and he underwent a stem cell transplant in 2020….