FOG BLOG ONTARIO POLITICS LOG: FORMER PREMIER BILL DAVIS DIES AT 92!

Former Ontario premier Bill Davis remembered as 'giant of Ontario politics'...One of Canada's longest-serving premiers died in August at 92......Former Ontario premier Bill Davis was remembered Thursday as a political giant, a beloved family man and a kind mentor to many public servants.

Davis, the 18th premier of Ontario and one of the country's longest-serving premiers, died in August at the age of 92. Family, friends and public figures paid their respects to him at a memorial service in downtown Toronto.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Davis "a visionary" who played a major role in the patriation of the Constitution and the entrenchment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution.

"Bill's goal was always to help people. That's why he loved politics, because he knew it was there and he could get things done," the prime minister said.

"And that's what Bill Davis was all about — getting things done."