Otto Lang

Otto Emil Lang PC OC QC ( born May 14, 1932 in Commerce, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian lawyer, university professor and former politician of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Life

After schooling long- graduated and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA), before a Rhodes Scholarship postgraduate studies in Law with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL ) from Exeter College, University of Oxford ended. After earning a Doctor of Laws ( LL.D. ) from the University of Manitoba, he worked as a lawyer. Later he was appointed Queen's Counsel and was a professor of law and for a time from 1963 to 1969 and dean of the University of Saskatchewan, where he was one of the youngest deans of North America.

In the general election on 25 June 1968, he was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the constituency of Saskatoon - Humboldt as a member of the lower house and belonged to this until May 1979. During this time he was first appointed in July 1968 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister without Portfolio in the 20th Federal Cabinet and retained this position until September 1970. During a cabinet reshuffle, he was then up to January 1972 Minister of Manpower and Immigration, and then between January 1972 and September 1975 the Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

After another reshuffle was long from September 1975 to June 1979 Minister of Transport and simultaneously to December 1975 Acting Communications Minister from October and Acting in August 1978 Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of Justice and Attorney before he was General again from August to November 1978. At the same time he was during his membership of the Cabinet of Trudeau's between October 1969 and June 1979 minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat authority.

After a defeat in the constituency of Saskatoon East he suffered at the general election of 22 May 1979, had to resign from the House of Commons, he retired from politics and was returned to the bar and took over next tasks as a manager in the private sector.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999. With the appointment of his achievements have been recognized as a law professor and one of the youngest deans of a law school in North America. In addition, his services were appreciated during his ten years of membership in the House and as a minister, where he prevailed especially as minister responsible for the wheat industry fundamental changes in the grain industry. As a university lecturer, politician and businessman, he contributed to significant contributions in Canadian life.

Publications

• Contemporary problems of public law in Canada: essays in honor of Dean FC Cronkite, Publisher, 1968