Party Leader Biography

Blair was born in Vancouver, B.C., 7:20 am, September 25, 1950.
He went to elementary and secondary school in North Vancouver.

He took a wide variety of courses in many universities’ departments.

For about a dozen years, Blair was living on universities’ campuses.

During that time, Blair worked at a wide variety of summer jobs.

He got a Bachelor of General Studies
from Simon Fraser University in 1979.

He published a couple of vanity press books in 1980 and 1982.

One book was called the Megasynthesis,
another was Letters Home from Odipos.

In 1983, he attended the founding convention of the Federal Green Party.

In the 1984 elections, Blair ran as a Green Rhino Candidate.

That is, he submitted Candidate endorsement letters first from the Green Party, and then also from Parti Rhinoceros, during last hour of the nomination period, to the Elections Canada returning officer in the Burnaby riding, requiring Elections Canada to make a ruling. Thus, he made national news on the first day he was a Candidate, and Rhinos could announce that they had half a Candidate, although Blair’s name on the election ballots appeared as endorsed by the Green Party of Canada only. (Of course, like everywhere else, there is more of a story behind that, and more interesting meanings, such as, what IF Candidates could run while being endorsed by more than one registered party?)

Parti Marijuana Party’s Chief Agent now was Blair’s
Official Agent, when he was the Candidate in 1984.

From 1985 to 1987, Blair was a registered agent of the Rhinoceros Party.

In 1987, Blair continued cultivating cannabis in a public garden,
to challenge the constitutional validity of the cannabis laws.
That case ended goofy: he was summarily acquitted.

(The official transcript of that court case is
an amusing roller-coaster ride of absurdity
and convoluted tangles in legal procedure.)

In 1988, Blair advanced the "Student Party"
to put political pressure on Revenue Canada.

From 1989 to 2000, Blair worked on a court case against the Revenue Canada taxation department of the Federal Government. He finally won his case by proving that his use of the political contribution tax credit had always been legal, and that senior officials in Revenue Canada had been arrogantly dishonest when they had denied his use of political tax credit was legal. The courts awarded Blair a grand total of $88,000 in damages, court costs, & interest, most of which was $50,000 in punitive damages due to Revenue Canada having been dishonest.

A link to the judgment in that court case appears at the bottom of Elections Canada’s Web site list of significant court cases. (Two cases with the Longley name appear on that Election Canada Web page of Major Court Cases Relating to the Federal Electoral Legislation.)

From 2000 onwards, Parti Marijuana Party had been making full legal use of "Longley’s Loophole" which is a political contribution tax credit scheme. About 90% of all the money that has ever gone through Parti Marijuana Party went through Longley’s tax credit schemes. But, in May of 2004, the Federal Government changed the elections law in order to make most of that tax scheme become a crime.

Limited versions of making some after-tax profit from political participation are still available to Officers and/or Agents of Parti Marijuana Party Electoral District Associations (EDAs). The original fully legal tax credit scheme through Longley’s Loophole was called the "Contributor’s Choice Concept." (CCC) The currently legal Longley’s Loophole political tax credit scheme is called the "Participation Premium Plan." (PPP)

On January 17, 2005, the Chief Electoral officer of Canada registered that Blair T. Longley had become Marijuana Party Leader, since December 13, 2004.

The most important event for Parti Marijuana Party
occurred on April 24, 2008, when leave to appeal
was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.

That meant the Ontario Court of Appeal
decision in Longley v. Canada was FINAL.

That meant votes for our Candidates are worth nothing.

& Again, that was symbolic of the political predicament.

This party has nothing else material to offer
but political contribution tax credit benefits.

That is the main issue that the party leader has worked on
since 1984, and is still working on developing at present.

However, both of those 2 court cases primarily have
proven how bad things are, and that has been the
main "benefit" from those political experiments.

The basic social fact continues, as it has since 1974 when the political tax credit was first enacted, that more than 99% of taxpayers never claim their own political contribution tax credit, and 99.8% of the dollar potential of that national tax credit has never been realized. The history of the Canadian political tax credit is symbolic of the political predicament we are in. Namely, the vicious spirals in the relationships between money and politics have gotten so extremely bad that there seems no reasonable hope for any practical way to stop that automatically getting worse.

Decades of study & political experiments have proven:

The more one learns about politics, the worse it gets!

The writings in the “party leader” section
and forum are the personal opinions of
the party leader, but not party policy.

People who are members of this party
or people who are officers or agents
of this party have no obligation to
vote for this party’s candidates,
who were endorsed by leader.

There is fulfilment of encouraging more
decentralized political participation.

Parliament of Canada’s Web site:

Blair T. Longley, 2008

Blair T. Longley, 2004