Mark MacGuigan

Mark Rudolph MacGuigan PC (born February 17, 1931 in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , † January 12, 1998 ) was a Canadian lawyer , university professor and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who had been a member of the lower house for 16 years , and for some time was a minister and judge at the Federal Court of Justice ( Federal Court of Canada ) was.

Life

University professor and Member of the House of Commons

After attending school, MacGuigan, whose father Mark MacGuigan Sr. was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for several years , first studied at Saint Dunstan's University , which he obtained with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and later with a Master of Arts ( MA) finished. He then completed postgraduate studies in law at the University of Toronto , the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and Columbia University , which he completed in 1959 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a thesis on The modern tradition in English jurisprudence and the relationship of law and moral graduated. After receiving a doctorate in law (JSD) there in 1961 with a thesis on positive law and moral law , he also earned a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) and a Doctor of Law (LL.D.). He then took on professorships at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and the University of Toronto and was temporarily dean of the law faculty at the University of Windsor .

In the general election of November 8, 1965 , MacGuigan ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house in the constituency of Queen’s and was then elected for the first time as MP for the Liberal Party in the constituency of Windsor-Walkerville in the general election on June 25, 1968 . He held his parliamentary mandate after several re-elections until he resigned on July 1, 1984. At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was chairman of the special committee for legal instruments between September 1968 and October 1969 and then from October 1969 to September 1972 for the first time co-chair of the joint special committee of the Parliament of Canada for the Constitution of Canada .

In December 1972 he took over his first government office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and held this post with a short break until May 1974, before he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labor from September 1974 to September 1975. At the same time he was from September 30, 1974 to March 26, 1979 chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and at the same time from September 30, 1974 to October 12, 1976 also chairman of this committee's subcommittee on the penal system. In addition, he was again chairman of the Joint Special Committee of Parliament for the Canadian Constitution from October 1977 to October 1978.

Minister and Federal Judge

On March 3, 1980, MacGuigan was appointed Foreign Minister to the 22nd Government of Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau . In this he took over after a cabinet reshuffle on September 10, 1982 the offices of Minister of Justice and Attorney General ( Attorney General ) and was a member of the government until the end of Trudeau's term on June 29, 1984.

At the party congress of the Liberal Party on June 16, 1984, he applied to succeed Trudeau as party chairman. In the first ballot, however, he only reached fifth place among the seven candidates with 135 delegate votes and then withdrew his candidacy for the second ballot, which John Turner clearly won with 1,862 delegate votes (54 percent) and thus became the new chairman of the Liberal Party of Canada.

After leaving government and parliament, MacGuigan became a judge at the Federal Court of Canada , where he served in the Appeal Division until his death on January 12, 1998 .

Publications

• The modern tradition in English jurisprudence and the relationship of law and moral , Thesis (LL.M.), Columbia University, 1959
• Positive law and moral law , Thesis (Jur.Sc.D.), Columbia University, 1961
• Liberalism and socialism. , Co-author Trevor Lloyd, Toronto 1964
• Jurisprudence: readings and cases , Toronto 1966
• Cases and materials on creditors' rights , Toronto 1967
• Parliamentary reform: internal impediments to enlarging the role of backbencher , 1977
• Public Legal Education in a democratic society , Charlottetown 1985
• Abortion, conscience & democracy , Toronto 1994
• An inside look at External Affairs during the Trudeau years: the memoirs of Mark MacGuigan , Autobiography, Calgary 2002

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage