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Jeremy Bernard Akerman (born 1942) is a former Canadian politician, writer and actor and a former leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Akerman was born Alvechurch, United Kingdom. He was attracted to politics at an early age, being drawn to the British Labour Party. However, his education was anything but that conventionally received by a politician, attending Cardiff College of Art where he studied to become a draftsman. After graduation in 1964 Akerman was invited by the Canadian government to come and work as an archaeologist on the Fortress Louisbourg Restoration Project, at... MORE

Jeremy Bernard Akerman (born 1942) is a former Canadian politician, writer and actor and a former leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Akerman was born Alvechurch, United Kingdom. He was attracted to politics at an early age, being drawn to the British Labour Party. However, his education was anything but that conventionally received by a politician, attending Cardiff College of Art where he studied to become a draftsman. After graduation in 1964 Akerman was invited by the Canadian government to come and work as an archaeologist on the Fortress Louisbourg Restoration Project, at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. While in Cape Breton he wrote a report on the Cape Breton fishery that was so controversial it cost him his job. He then worked to organize the fishermen in the Louisbourg area into an organization that eventually affiliated with the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. He then joined a radio station in Sydney, Nova Scotia as a reporter and radio talk show host but was fired for unionizing the staff. During the Canadian federal election of 1965, Akerman and other workers from the Louisbourg site, volunteered on the campaign of Ed Johnston, who was the LESS