Alfred Joseph "Alf" Stong (born August 2, 1940) is a former politician in

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, Canada. He was a

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member of the

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from 1975 to 1981. He represented the riding of

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. After his time in government he was appointed as a judge to the

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Background

He was born in

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, the son of Alfred David Stong, and educated at the

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and

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. In 1965, he married Raymonde Marie Aubrey. Stong served as a lieutenant in the

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Politics

He ran in the 1975 provincial election as the

candidate in the riding of

. He defeated Progressive Conservative candidate

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by 1,379 votes. He was re-elected in

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, but was defeated by PC candidate

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in 1981.

Later life

Stong served as a judge in the

for the Central East Region until he retired in 2015. In November 2010, Stong presided over the jury trial of

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, a woman accused of the pre-meditated drowning of her two children. After the jury found Campione guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, Stong offered comments which attracted considerable media attention. Stong suggested Campione belonged to a class of "weaker and more vulnerable" citizens who as "victim/offenders" sometimes "act out of the expected norm", creating the impression that her crime was somewhat less heinous due to her own personal circumstances.

References

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1977'', PG Normandin

External links

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Judges of the Superior Court of Justice
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stong, Alfred Joseph 1940 births Judges in Ontario Living people Ontario Liberal Party MPPs People from Richmond Hill, Ontario University of Toronto alumni 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario