Stanley Waters

Charles Stanley "Stan" Waters ( born June 14, 1920 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, † September 25, 1991 ) was the only elected Senator of Canada, Canadian high officer and businessman.

Biography

Waters in 1941 drafted into the Canadian Army. He was later at the First Special Service Force, in which he commanded a battalion. After the Second World War, he decided to stay in the armed forces, where he steadily climb the corporate ladder. By 1975, he was Lieutenant - General and Commander of the Canadian Forces Mobile Command. In 1975, he finally went into civilian life, where he was president of the Loram Group, a subsidiary of the Canadian assembly Mannix. He was also co-founder of Bowfort Group, engaged in all of Western Canada in agriculture, real estate and investment. He was active until 1989, as a businessman.

In 1987 he was a founding member of Preston Manning's Reform Party. Early on, he was one of the most popular personalities of the party and very active in public. His chance came Parliament Square in 1989.

The debate about a possible constitutional amendment through the Meech Lake Accord prompted Alberta's premier Don Getty to hold an election for Senator items. This choice is in accordance with the Canadian Constitution only a symbolic act, since it has no formal binding effect. Officially appointed by the Governor General of Canada new senators to the proposal of the Prime Minister. The prime minister is bound by no rules. Stan Waters ran as candidate of the Reform Party and won with 41.7 % of the 620,000 votes cast. Premier Brian Mulroney looked so pressured that he agreed to appoint the unloved by him Waters to the Senate by the events.

On June 11, 1990 Waters spoke his oath of office. He was not only the only previously elected Senator, but also the only one that the Reform Party ever presented. During his short tenure, Waters spoke in favor of to end the English- French bilingualism Canadian authorities called for a health care reform, campaigned against government arts funding and called for a vehement Senate reform.

In September 1991 Waters died. After the Liberal Party in 1993 won back the power to put the new Prime Minister Jean Chrétien a all efforts of Senate reform. Neither he nor his successor Paul Martin have appointed " chosen " senators, as they saw no legal basis for it.