Christopher S. Axworthy, (born March 10, 1947,

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)Roberts, David. Why Chris Axworthy feels at home. The Globe and Mail. October 30, 1999. p. A22 is a

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politician and academic.

Law Professor

After teaching law at the

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and Dalhousie Law School, Chris Axworthy came to

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in 1984 as the founding executive director of th
Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
and as a professor of law at the

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. In 2003 he returned to the

as a professor of law, where he taught until the spring of 2008.College of Law: Faculty and Staff Directory. Chris Axworthy. In the spring of 2008, he was appointed as Dean of Robson Hall (Faculty of Law - University of Manitoba) for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2008. He is also the President of the Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law. In May 2010, Axworthy assumed the position as th
Founding Dean of Law
at Thompson Rivers University's new law school, which opened in Fall 2011. On July 15, 2013, he resigned this position.

Political career

He was elected as a

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for the

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in 1988 and was re-elected in 1993 and

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. He resigned from the

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on June 1, 1999, to join the

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of then Saskatchewan

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Roy Romanow. He was elected as an MLA in a by-election as the

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MLA for the constituency of Saskatoon-Fairview with 64% of the vote. He was also reelected three months later in a

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that same year. He served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. After Romanow stepped down, Axworthy ran against Lorne Calvert for the provincial NDP leadership convention and finished second.Girard, Daniel. Calvert's first job to renegotiate coalition. The Toronto Star. January 29, 2001. p. A06. Although he was an NDP member for his political career, he announced his bid for the Liberal nomination in the riding of

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on March 5, 2004. He received 32.58% of the vote, but lost to incumbent Conservative MP, Maurice Vellacott. He lost to Vellacott a second time in the 2006 federal election.

References

External links

Canadian parliamentary profile
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University of Manitoba profile
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