1. Warren Allmand briefly returned to politics by serving a term from 2005 to 2009 as a Montreal city councillor under Gerald Tremblay's Union Montreal party, becoming vice president of the city council.
47 Facts About Warren Allmand
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Warren Allmand died on December 7,2016, from terminal brain cancer.
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William Warren Allmand was born in Montreal on September 19,1932, and was raised in the Mile End neighbourhood.
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Warren Allmand had a Jesuit education at Loyola College in Montreal.
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Warren Allmand attended St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and graduated in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Warren Allmand studied civil law at McGill University, and graduated in 1957 with a bachelor of civil law degree.
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Warren Allmand was a member of the university's Newman Club and played three years of varsity ice hockey for the McGill Redmen.
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Warren Allmand earned certificates in comparative law at the University of Paris and at the Institute of Comparative Law.
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Warren Allmand would serve his constituency for over 30 years, being re-elected in every subsequent election before stepping down in 1997.
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Warren Allmand proposed requiring gun owners to compile annual reports on their gun use and the condition of the gun, and to return their guns to the government when no longer used.
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Warren Allmand continued to advocate for gun control laws upon his appointment to cabinet.
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In 1967, after Charles de Gaulle said "Vive le Quebec libre" while on a state visit to Canada during Expo 67, Warren Allmand sent a message to Paul Martin Sr.
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Warren Allmand was sworn into the Privy Council on November 27,1972 when he succeeded Jean-Pierre Goyer as Solicitor General for Pierre Trudeau, a post he held until September 13,1976.
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In 1976, Warren Allmand signed a warrant requested by Michael Dare, the Director-General of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service, to authorize them to intercept the mail of a Toronto couple.
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In December 1976, Warren Allmand was Solicitor General when Leonard Peltier was extradited to the United States.
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In 1977, after Warren Allmand was no longer Solicitor General, he testified before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP that the RCMP had advised him that it was legal for them to break into buildings to conduct warrantless searches as long as they did not take anything.
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Warren Allmand felt it was hypocritical to have the law on the books when Parliament had commuted every death sentence since 1962.
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Warren Allmand felt that it was illegitimate to grant the Cabinet and the judiciary the power over an individual person's ultimate fate, noting that it is not in line with the values held by Canadian society.
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Warren Allmand argued that representative democracy necessarily excluded plebiscites, because then it would open the door to plebiscites on a variety of serious and controversial issues.
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Unlike his predecessor Judd Buchanan, who referred to the land claims and demands for Indigenous self-government proposed by the Dene people in the Dene Declaration in the aftermath of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry as "goobledegook", Warren Allmand expressed public sympathy for their political demands of the Dene and the Metis.
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Warren Allmand was seemingly about to reach a land claim settlement agreement which would have granted much of the desired political autonomy when he was replaced by Hugh Faulkner in fall 1977.
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Faulkner backed away from the concessions that Warren Allmand had made such as control over natural resources, instead proposing a cash settlement and land allotments similar to Indian reserves.
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In October 1979, Warren Allmand was forced to borrow a tie from an NDP MP when the Speaker of the House of Commons refused to recognize him to ask a question because he was "improperly dressed" in a turtleneck sweater with his suit instead of a tie.
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Warren Allmand's support lent credibility to the Indigenous cause, since he was a former Indian Affairs minister and longtime cabinet minister.
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Ultimately, Warren Allmand voted against the Constitution Act, 1982 because of his opposition to the inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allowed certain rights to be overridden by the national and provincial legislatures.
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Warren Allmand opposed Section 59 of the act, which delayed the implementation of Section 23 minority language education rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Quebec until a time chosen by the Quebec National Assembly.
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Warren Allmand was critic for Employment from October 1984 to September 1990.
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In 1988, conservative Catholics attacked Warren Allmand for being "anti-life" for voting against amendments to the Criminal Code that would have criminalized abortion in Canada.
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Warren Allmand was critic for arms control and disarmament as well as critic for Official Languages from 1990 to 1992, and critic for Immigration from 1992 to 1993.
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Warren Allmand said that Martin's budget cuts "broke traditional Liberal principles" and his willingness to vote against his own party's majority government emboldened other Liberal MPs to follow suit, such as John Nunziata and Dennis Mills.
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Warren Allmand retired before the 1997 election after Chretien appointed him president of the Montreal-based International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development to replace Ed Broadbent, its first president.
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Warren Allmand served as the second president of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development from 1997 to 2002.
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Warren Allmand served as the international president of Parliamentarians for Global Action.
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Warren Allmand served as a director of the Newman Centre of Montreal and CANADEM.
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In 2004, Warren Allmand taught at McGill University as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Canadian Studies.
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In 2005, Warren Allmand served as counsel for the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group during the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, and argued that Canada's national security agencies, especially the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, chose security over rights and were largely unaccountable when they did so.
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Warren Allmand voted against Tremblay's motion to change the name of Park Avenue to Avenue Robert Bourassa.
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In 2011, Warren Allmand supported the Canadian Boat for Gaza, part of the Freedom Flotilla II that sought to deliver supplies to Palestinians.
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In Fall 2013, Warren Allmand joined Foundation Board of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East.
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Warren Allmand argued that a clause of the bill which gave Canada an explicit exemption in certain cases while participating in combined military operations with non-signatory allies such as the United States undermined the purpose of the convention.
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Warren Allmand noted that Australia and New Zealand, two other American allies, had passed similar legislation without this exemption.
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Warren Allmand was concerned that signing a treaty with the exception would encourage other countries to create their own exceptions.
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Warren Allmand was diagnosed with a brain tumour in February 2016, and his condition worsened in October 2016.
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Warren Allmand then entered a palliative care centre at the Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal's Hopital Notre-Dame, where he died on December 7,2016, at the age of 84.
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Warren Allmand was survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.
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In 1977, Warren Allmand was appointed Queen's Counsel for his contributions to the legal field.
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In 1999, in a list that Warren Allmand submitted to the Great Canadian Book of Lists, he listed abolishing the death penalty as one of Canada's twelve most significant political events.