Otto Emil Lang

Otto Emil Lang PC OC QC (born May 14, 1932 in Handel , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian lawyer , university professor and former politician of the Liberal Party of Canada .

Life

After attending school, Lang completed a course of study and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) before completing a postgraduate degree in law with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Saskatchewan and a Rhodes scholarship Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from Exeter College of the University of Oxford ended. After earning a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Manitoba , he practiced as a lawyer . He was later appointed Crown Attorney and was Professor of Law and at times from 1963 to 1969 Dean of the University of Saskatchewan, where he was one of the youngest deans in North America .

In the general election on June 25, 1968 , he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the constituency of Saskatoon - Humboldt for the first time as a member of the lower house and was a member of it until May 1979. During this time, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed him to the 20th Federal Cabinet as a minister without portfolio in July 1968 and held this position until September 1970. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was then Minister for Labor and Immigration until January 1972 and then between January 1972 and September 1975 Minister of Justice and Attorney General .

After another government reshuffle, Lang was Minister of Transport from September 1975 to June 1979 and also acting Minister of Communications from October to December 1975 and acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General in August 1978, before he was again Minister of Justice and Attorney General between August and November 1978. At the same time he was minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Agency during his membership in the Trudeau cabinet between October 1969 and June 1979.

After he suffered a defeat in the constituency of Saskatoon East in the general election of May 22, 1979 and had to leave the House of Commons, he retired from politics and worked again as a lawyer and also took on tasks as a manager in the private sector .

In 1999 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada . His appointment recognized his services as a law professor and as one of the youngest deans of a law school in North America. In addition, his services during his ten-year membership in the House of Commons and as a minister were also recognized, in particular as minister responsible for the wheat industry, he pushed through fundamental changes in the grain industry. As a university professor, politician and businessman, he made tangible contributions to Canadian life.

Publications

• Contemporary problems of public law in Canada: essays in honor of Dean FC Cronkite , editor, 1968

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Order of Canada