Norman Cafik

Norman Cafik (born December 29 1928) is a former Canadian politician.

Cafik was unsuccessful in his attempts to win a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 and 1963 Canadian elections but was finally elected as the Liberal MP for the riding of Ontario in the 1968 Canadian election.

He attempted to move to provincial politics running in 1973 for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party losing on the third ballot of the provincial Liberal leadership convention to Robert Nixon.

In 1977 he was the second person of Ukrainian descent to be appointed to the Canadian Cabinet when Prime MInister Pierre Trudeau made him Minister of State for Multiculturalism. (Michael Starr was the first Ukrainian in Cabinet having been appointed by John George Diefenbaker.) He lost his seat in the House in the 1979 Canadian election that defeated the Trudeau government and returned to private life.