Allan Lawrence (politician)

Allan Frederick Lawrence PC QC (born November 8, 1925 in Toronto , Ontario ; † September 6, 2008 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for 14 years and a minister in the Government of the Province of Ontario was. He was then a member of the House of Commons for 16 years and between 1979 and 1980 Minister for Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Solicitor General in the 21st Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark .

Life

Attorney, MP and Minister in the Province of Ontario

Lawrence was a member of the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve from 1944 to 1945 in World War II . After the end of the war, he first completed an undergraduate degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), and then a postgraduate degree in law , which he completed with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Upon graduation he took a job as a solicitor and later as a barrister after all and was for his lawyer's services to the Attorney-General (Queen's Counsel) appointed.

In the late 1950s he began his political career in provincial politics when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on May 12, 1958 as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario . In this he represented the constituency of St. George until September 19, 1972 . During his parliamentary membership he served as a member of numerous committees and was from June 22, 1965 to June 15, 1967 chairman of the Select Committee on the Corporations Act .

On February 13, 1968, Lawrence was appointed by Prime Minister John Robarts to the government of the province of Ontario, where he was first Minister of Mines and then between January 26, 1970 and March 1, 1971 Minister for Mining and Northern Affairs. After Robarts had been replaced by Bill Davis as Prime Minister of Ontario, he took over the office of Minister of Justice and Attorney General in his cabinet on March 1, 1971, before becoming provincial secretary from January 5, 1972 to September 28, 1972 after another cabinet reshuffle Justice was.

Member of the House of Commons and Federal Minister

After Lawrence had left provincial politics, he was elected as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) in the election of October 30, 1972 for the first time as a member of the lower house. There he represented the constituency of Northumberland-Durham or Durham-Northumberland for 16 years until he renounced a new candidacy in the general election on November 21, 1988 .

During his membership in the House of Commons, Lawrence was PC Group spokesman for consumer and corporate affairs from December 1972 to October 23, 1973, and then from October 1973 to May 1975 the opposition spokesman for federal-provincial relations. He then acted from October 12, 1976 to October 17, 1977 as chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and then between October 1977 and 1979 as his group's spokesman for energy, mining and natural resources.

On June 4, 1979, Lawrence was appointed Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Solicitor General to the 21st Cabinet of Canada by Prime Minister Joe Clark, which he served until the end of Clark's tenure on March 2, 1980. As a Solicitor General, he was the chief legal advisor to the Clark Administration.

After losing the general election on February 18, 1980 , he acted as spokesman for the PC parliamentary group for the office of Solicitor General between April 1980 and June 1983 and then from April 9, 1983 to 1984 as spokesman for the opposition for justice and the office of Attorney General.

Web links and sources

• Resume on the Ontario Legislative Assembly home page
• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org