Vic Toews

Vic Toews (2010)

Victor "Vic" Toews (born September 10, 1952 in Filadelfia , Boquerón Department , Paraguay ) is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party of Canada .

Life

After attending school, Toews first studied history at the University of Winnipeg and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at the University of Manitoba in 1976 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Later, he was from 1988 to 1995 lecturer for economics at the University of Manitoba.

Toews, who had been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba since 1989 , was elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in 1995 and represented the constituency of Rossmere in this until 1999 . Immediately after his election, Manitoba's Prime Minister Gary Filmon appointed him provincial labor minister. Following a cabinet reshuffle, he was Attorney General and Attorney General of Manitoba from 1997 to the end of Filmon's tenure in October 1999 .

In 2000 he was elected a member of the Canadian House of Commons and has since represented the Provencher constituency there . On February 6, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed him Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the 28th Cabinet .

In these functions, Toews ordered on June 22, 2006 the extradition of John Graham, a tribesman of the Southern Tutchonen from Whitehorse , Yukon , to the United States , because he was involved in the murder of Anna Mae Aquash , a prominent member of the American Indian Movement , was accused in December 1975.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Toews first became President of the Treasury Board on January 4, 2007 . After another government reshuffle on January 19, 2010, he became Minister for Public Security and Emergency Preparedness until July 2013.

Web links and sources

• Vic Toews - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
• Vic Toews in the nndb (English)
• rulers.org