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If he had won the 1969 provincial election, Tom Berger would have been the first socialist premier in B.C. history.
But Berger’s NDP lost to W.A.C. Bennett’s Socreds. So Berger left politics and became one of the great Canadian legal figures of his time.
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Berger was the original lawyer for the Nisga’a Nation in the landmark Calder case in the 1960s and early ’70s, which established Aboriginal title in Canadian law.