Steve Paproski

Steve Eugene Paproski (born September 23, 1928 in Lwów , Poland , † December 3, 1993 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) who was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years . Between 1979 and 1980 he was Minister of State in the 21st Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark . Paproski was a professional Canadian football lineman between 1949 and 1954 with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football Council .

Life

Paproski came from a Polish immigrant family and was a professional Canadian football lineman between 1949 and 1954 with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football Council. He later worked as a business manager and entrepreneur .

In the election of June 25, 1968 Paproski was elected as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Edmonton Center and from the election of May 22, 1979 until he left the Parliament on October 24, 1993 the Edmonton North constituency . He was a member of the House of Commons for more than 25 years. At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was initially between 1969 and 1970 spokesman for the PC group for employment and immigration and from 1971 to 1972 spokesman for the opposition for the treasury committee.

Then he was from October 24, 1973 to March 30, 1976 first deputy parliamentary manager (Deputy Whip ) and then until 1978 parliamentary manager of the PC parliamentary group and as such Chief Opposition Whip of his party in the lower house.

On June 4, 1979, Prime Minister Joe Clark appointed him to the 21st Cabinet of Canada as Minister of State with special responsibility for multiculturalism and Minister of State with special responsibility for fitness and amateur sports, which he held until the end of Clark's term on March 2 1980 belonged.

After the defeat in the general election of February 18, 1980 Paproski acted from April 1980 to September 1983 as opposition spokesman for multiculturalism and then between September 1983 and November 1984 as his parliamentary spokesman for fitness and amateur sports. From November 5, 1984 to September 8, 1993, he was deputy chairman of the so-called Committee of the Whole , an overall committee of the House of Commons that deals primarily with budgetary laws or is convened to speed up legislative procedures. At the same time he was chairman of a special legislative committee from September 30, 1986 to October 1, 1988.

Background literature

• Tom Earle: The Honorable Steve Paproski. Interview , Ottawa, Library of Parliament, 1989

Web links and sources

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament