Career
He was re-elected in 1958 and 1962. The son of James Robert Baskin and Ethel Gill, he was educated in Norwood. Baskin operated a wholesale lumber business in Renfrew.
He lost in the elections of 1963, 1965 and 1968, the latter in which he was a candidate for the riding of Lanark and Renfrew.
Prior to his federal political experience, he served in World World War II in the Royal Canadian Air Force for five years.