Clarence Mervin "Merv" Leitch was a former lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.
11 Facts About Merv Leitch
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Merv Leitch served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.
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Merv Leitch served as President of the Calgary Bar Association and as a Partner in the Macleod Dixon Law Firm and on the Board of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law and was a director on several corporations.
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Merv Leitch left his legal practice to pursue a political career.
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Merv Leitch won a hotly contested race in the new electoral district of Calgary-Egmont to pick up the seat for the Progressive Conservative party who would form government that election.
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Merv Leitch defeated Social Credit candidate Pat O'Byrne by over 1,000 votes to win the district.
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Merv Leitch served as the Attorney General in the first Progressive Conservative government cabinet.
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Merv Leitch included a "notwithstanding clause", which inspired Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Merv Leitch was returned with a landslide winning over 10,000 votes while the opposition votes collapsed.
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Merv Leitch held that portfolio while running for his third term in office in the 1979 Alberta general election.
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Merv Leitch was appointed to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources portfolio and held that until he retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1982.