Ian Waddell

Ian Waddell Q.C.
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Fraserview
In office May 28, 1996 – May 16, 2001
Preceded by	Bernie Simpson
Succeeded by	Ken Johnston
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam Vancouver Kingsway (1979-1988)
In office May 22, 1979 – October 25, 1993
Preceded by	Simma Holt
Succeeded by	Sharon Hayes
Personal details
Born	November 21, 1942 Glasgow, Scotland
Political party	New Democrat
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia

Ian Gardiner Waddell Q.C. is a Canadian politician, author and filmmaker who served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1993 and in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2001.

Waddell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and as a child immigrated to Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto with bachelor of arts in history and an LLB, a teaching diploma Ontario College of Education and a master's in international law from the London School of Economics.

He worked as crown counsel for the City of Vancouver and then as defence counsel as a criminal lawyer. Later, as legal Director at Community Legal Assistance Society, he was counsel on the first successful consumer class action in Canada. He went on to be counsel to Justice Tom Berger's landmark Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 general election, representing the riding of Vancouver Kingsway between 1979 and 1988 and the riding of Port Moody—Coquitlam between 1988 and 1993. He was a candidate to succeed Ed Broadbent as leader of the New Democratic Party in 1989. He lost his seat in the 1993 federal election. While in federal politics, he was the NDP Energy Critic at the time of the National Energy Program. Waddell also drafted Section 92A, and Section 35 the native rights amendment to the repatriated Canadian Constitution in 1981. This gave aboriginal Canadians constitutional legal rights .

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