It wouldn’t be an overestimation to say that the hockey world was emotionally crushed with news of the passing of Ken Dryden at the age of 78 to pancreatic cancer. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, he won six Stanley Cups and a Vezina Trophy. In 2017, the NHL counted him among history’s 100 Greatest NHL players.

But that’s not how I remember him. Our terms as MPs in Parliament roughly coincided, ending in the 2011 election. He served as Minister of Social Development in Paul Martin’s government, and his travels across the country showed him the extent of child poverty and the financial plight of single parents. Dryden was something larger than a star: he was a man who carried greatness with humility; a man who understood that the real test of chara

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