20 Facts About Anthony Merchant

Evatt Francis Anthony "Tony" Merchant, was born on 1944 and is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and former politician.

Anthony Merchant was born in 1944 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and was raised by his mother.

Anthony Merchant studied arts and law at the University of Saskatchewan and business administration at the University of Regina.

Anthony Merchant was admitted to the Saskatchewan bar in 1968, to the Alberta bar in 1976, to the British Columbia bar in 1977 and to the Arizona bar in 1987.

Anthony Merchant was host for an open-line radio show in Saskatchewan and a freelance television interviewer with the CBC.

Anthony Merchant later tried and failed to run for federal office in 1979 and 1980.

Merchant's father, Captain Evatt Francis Anthony Merchant, was a member of C Company of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.

Anthony Merchant was killed in action towards the end of hostilities in WWII, just after Merchant was born.

Anthony Merchant's mother, Sally Anthony Merchant, was a television personality who later became a member of the Saskatchewan legislature.

In 1983, Anthony Merchant became involved in the murder trial of Colin Thatcher, a Canadian politician from Saskatchewan who was eventually convicted of murdering his ex-wife, JoAnne Wilson.

Anthony Merchant was convicted of criminal mischief and reprimanded by the Law Society of Saskatchewan for an incident that evolved after Anthony Merchant visited the home where Ms.

Additionally, Anthony Merchant testified at the trial of Mr Thatcher as a defense witness.

Anthony Merchant claimed that he had retained certain telephone records relating to calls from himself to Mr Thatcher after Ms.

Anthony Merchant subsequently changed his testimony to state that the break-ins had occurred before Mr Thatcher was arrested, which resulting in the trial judge giving a specific jury instruction in relation to the reliability of Anthony Merchant's evidence.

Anthony Merchant had been disciplined by the LSS with a three-month suspension from practicing law in 2012 in relation to a residential school claim.

Anthony Merchant's name appeared in documents released as part of the Offshore Leaks, a 2013 leak of documents related to offshore accounts that predated the similar 2016 Panama Papers and 2017 Paradise Papers.

The documents revealed that Anthony Merchant had transferred $1.7 million into offshore havens.

In 2007, Anthony Merchant was voted the best lawyer in Regina by the Prairie Dog Magazine.

Anthony Merchant's brother-in-law is Otto Lang, a federal Liberal politician and the former attorney general.

Anthony Merchant is married to Pana Anthony Merchant, a Liberal senator.