Jack Austin
Jacob "Jack" Austin PC QC OBC ( born March 2, 1932 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was a member of the Senate more than 31 years.
Life
After schooling Austin graduated, he finished with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and a Master of Laws from (LL.M. ) and then began working as a lawyer.
In the general election on November 8, 1965, Austin applied for the Liberal party in the constituency of Vancouver Kingsway a seat in the House of Commons, but suffered a defeat, and thus failed to reach the House of Commons.
Austin, which an Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences ( D.Soc.Sci. Hon ) was awarded, was born on August 19, 1975, on a proposal by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau member of the Senate and took over 31 years to this until March 2, 2007 Senate District Vancouver South.
On September 22, 1981, he was first minister of state without portfolio and was then from 10 September 1982 to 29 June 1984 in the formed by Prime Minister Trudeau 22 Canadian Cabinet Minister of State for Social Development. As such, he was between September 1982 and June 1984 in the cabinet of competent Regional Minister for British Columbia.
During his Senate membership, he has served on numerous committees, and on 12 October 1999, to September 16, 2002 Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Privileges, Code of Conduct and order and at the same time from 29 January 2001 until 16 September 2002 Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Rules procedures and the Rights of Parliament.
On 12 December 2003, Austin Chairman of the Liberal party and thus leader of the Government in the Senate ( Leader of the Government in the Senate ). In this role, he was on 12 December 2003 to February 5, 2006 by virtue of office and a member of the formed by Prime Minister Paul Martin 27 Government of Canada and there again between 20 July 2004 and 5 February competent Regional Minister for British Columbia.
According to him, the Murray - Austin Amendment was named. To change the composition of the Senate, Senator Lowell Murray and he beat (PC - Ontario) on 22 June 2006 a constitutional amendment before. Then the Senate would be increased to 117 seats, increases the number of senators from Western Canada. British Columbia would be an autonomous region, the current six seats of the province would be divided among the other Western Canadian provinces. After the constitutional amendment British Columbia had twelve seats, ten Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba seven seven instead of the previous six. Likewise, the number of additional Senators the Queen can appoint increased, from four or eight to five or ten. A special committee of the Senate to reform the Senate supported the proposal on 26 October 2006 and referred the issue back to the Senate as a whole. The Senate, however, has not decided about it and now after the three-year period expired on constitutional amendments, the draft has become obsolete.
For his decades-long achievements in 2010 he received the Order of British Columbia.