As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

He never recognized that the Privy Council's judicial decisions were the result of the eloquence of a Canadian lawyer and former Premier of the Province of Ontario. When his brother Samuel Hume Blake joined soon thereafter it was Blake & Blake and today the firm is known as Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP. and in Toronto.

He is one of only three federal permanent Liberal leaders never to become Prime Minister of Canada the others being Stéphane Dion and the latter's immediate successor Michael Ignatieff. Dominick Edward Blake PC QC (October 13 1833 – March 1 1912) known as Edward Blake was the second Premier of Ontario Canada from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887.