A funeral will be held in Ottawa today for longtime Liberal MP Herb Gray, who died Monday at the age of 82.

The ceremony will be held at Congregation Machzikei Hadas at 11 a.m. ET.

There had been calls for Gray to receive a state funeral to honour his four decades in the House of Commons as an MP from Windsor, Ont.

Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin was among those who argued that Gray deserved the best possible sendoff.

But the Prime Minister's Office said Tuesday that while Gray was a "great Canadian and a tremendous parliamentarian" there would not be a state funeral.

Such funerals are typically held for sitting and former prime ministers and governors general, as well as sitting cabinet ministers.

There have been two notable exceptions, for former finance minister Jim Flaherty last week and for NDP Leader Jack Layton in 2011.

In his 40 years as a Liberal MP, Gray held several cabinet portfolios, and was deputy prime minister from 1997 until 2002, when he left active politics.