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    Claude-Thomas Dupuy

    Claude-Thomas Dupuy, lawyer, intendant of NEW FRANCE 1725-28 (b at Paris, France 10 Dec 1678; d near Rennes, France 15 Sept 1738). From a bourgeois family Dupuy became a lawyer in the parlement of Paris and in 1720 purchased the office of maître des requêtes.

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    Claude Wagner

    Claude Wagner, lawyer, judge, politician (b at Shawinigan, Qué 4 Apr 1925; d at Montréal 11 July 1979).

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    Claudette Bradshaw

    Claudette Bradshaw, community activist, politician (born 8 April 1949 in Moncton, NB). Claudette Bradshaw’s early career was spent in nonprofit social work. She founded Moncton Headstart, an early family intervention centre, and advocated for at-risk youth. She was Member of Parliament for Moncton–Riverview–Dieppe from 1997 to 2006 and served in several ministerial roles in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, including Minister of Labour and Minister of State (Human Resources Development). Since then, she has become a major advocate for mental health, literacy and affordable housing.

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    Clayton Ruby

    Clayton “Clay” Charles Ruby, CM, lawyer, writer, activist (born 6 February 1942 in Toronto, ON; died 2 August 2022 in Toronto). Clayton Ruby was a lawyer, activist and social justice advocate. He specialized in civil rights, criminal law and constitutional law. One of Canada’s best-known defence attorneys, he was an impassioned defender of press freedom and an active member of Canada’s environmental movement. Ruby worked to ensure that all people receive equal access and treatment under Canada’s laws. His more notable clients included the surviving Dionne Quintuplets, Donald Marshall Jr., Guy Paul Morin, Michelle Douglas, Svend Robinson, Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the men charged in the 1981 Toronto Bathhouse Raids.

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    Clear Grits

    Clear Grits, Upper Canadian Reformers who became discontented with the conservatism of the Baldwin-LaFontaine ministry after 1849.

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    Clifford Clark

    Clifford Clark, civil servant (b at Martintown, Ont 18 Apr 1889; d at Chicago 27 Dec 1952). Clark attended Queen's and Harvard before returning to Queen's as a lecturer in 1915, where he helped establish banking and commerce courses. In 1923 he joined the American investment firm of S.W.

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    Clifford William Robinson

    Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, premier of NB 1907-08 (b at Moncton, NB 1 Sept 1866; d at Montréal 27 July 1944). In 1897 Robinson was elected mayor of Moncton and a member of the provincial Assembly.

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    Clyde Kirby Wells

    In 1977 he was Newfoundland representative on a Canadian Bar Association committee on the Constitution and in 1981 he argued the government's case in the Newfoundland Supreme Court against the federal government's claim that it could unilaterally patriate the constitution.

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  • Macleans

    Cogger Convicted of Influence Peddling

    Michel Cogger fell to earth last week. It has been a long, agonizing descent. The portly, peppery Tory senator and lawyer once helped run federal election campaigns, had the ear of prime minister Brian Mulroney, and the trust of legal clients like the shadowy Austrian businessman Walter Wolf.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 15, 1998

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  • Macleans

    Collenette Resigns Defence Post

    Even before his aides found the letter, David Collenette knew that his turbulent career as Canada's minister of defence was about to end.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 14, 1996

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    Commissioner for Oaths

    A Commissioner for Oaths is any person over 18 years of age commissioned by a lieutenant-governor to administer oaths and take affidavits.

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    Commissioner of Official Languages

    Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages ensures that the Official Languages Act (adopted in 1969, amended in 1988 and 2005) is followed within the federal government and the Parliament of Canada. The Commissioner also ensures that both of Canada’s official languages, English and French, are recognized as having equal status in accordance with Canada’s language policy.

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    Commissioners of Nunavut

    Commissioner Term Helen Mamayaok Maksagak 1999–2000 Peter Taqtu Irniq 2000­–05 Ann Meekitjuk Hanson 2005–10 Edna Ekhivalak Elias 2010–15 Nellie T. Kusugak 2015–20 Eva Qamaniq Aariak 2021–present

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    Commissioners of Yukon

    For more information on territorial politics see: Yukon. Commissioners Term Angélique Bernard 2018 to present Douglas George Phillips 2010-18 Geraldine Van Bibber 2005-10 Jack Cable 2000-05 Judy Gingell 1995-2000 John Kenneth McKinnon 1986-95 Douglas Leslie Dewey Bell 1979-86 Ione Jean Christensen 1979 Frank B. Fingland 1978-79 Arthur MacDonald Pearson 1976-78 James Smith 1966-76 Gordon Robertson Cameron 1962-66 Frederick Howard Collins 1955-62 Wilfred George Brown 1952-55 Frederick Fraser 1951-52 Andrew Harold Gibson 1950-51 John Edward Gibben...

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  • Interview

    In Conversation with Marcia McClung

    Special projects editor Eli Yarhi interviews Marcia McClung, granddaughter of suffragist, reformer, legislator and author Nellie McClung, for The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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