Information AboutAlfred Monnin |
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| monnin, alfred | |
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| manitoba judges | |
| officers of the order of canada | |
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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , he received a Bachelor Of Arts in 1939 from Collège Universitaire De Saint-Boniface . After serving in World War II , he received a Bachelor Of Law in 1946 and a honorary degree in 1979 from the University Of Manitoba . The Monnin Inquiry was called after accusations that local organizers from the Progressive Conservative Party organized and funded candidates of another party, Independent Native Voice , to split the left-of-centre vote with the New Democratic Party in three constituencies. Monnin found that the PC organizers were guilty of inducing at least one INV candidate, Darryl Sutherland , to enter the campaign. Senior PC organizer Taras Sokolyk was personally implicated in the scandal. Monnin described the actions of the Conservative organizers as an "unconscionable debasement of a citizen's right to vote" and claimed "in all my years on the Bench I have never encountered as many liars in one proceeding as I did during this inquiry." {Link without Title} In 1990, he was awarded the . His two sons and a daughter-in-law currently serve on the bench in Manitoba. REFERENCES |
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