Jack Douglas Scowen (12 December 1925 – 27 May 2001) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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. He was born in Limerick, Saskatchewan and became a farmer and seed grower by career. He narrowly defeated Mel McCorriston for the Mackenzie riding in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the

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. He was defeated in the 1988 federal election by

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of the

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. In 1988, Scowen and fellow Progressive Conservative member Ronald Stewart openly disagreed with their party leader, Prime Minister

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, when the government was supporting efforts to translate

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provincial legislation into French in response to a

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ruling. Scowen and Stewart believed such efforts for the province's 23,000

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would be expensive and unnecessary. Scowen was based in

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when he died in 2001.

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* 1935 births 2001 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs People from Nipawin, Saskatchewan 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Saskatchewan-MP-stub