Jack Penner is a farmer and former politician in

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, Canada. He was a member of the

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from 1988 to 2007, and served in the cabinet of Progressive Conservative

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Life and career

The son of Diedrich A. Penner, he was born in Halbstadt, Manitoba, and worked as a farmer both before and after entering politics. He has served as President of the Keystone Agricultural Producers, the Rhineland Pioneer Centre, and the Rhineland Agricultural Society along with other related organizations. Penner also worked for West Park Motors in Altona for 12 years. Penner was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1988 general election, in the rural riding of

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in the province's southeastern region. He received 5,166 votes, against 1,059 for his closest opponent,

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Walter Hebert. Penner was subsequently returned for the riding of Emerson in the provincial elections of

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

and

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

, each time by a significant margin. He reportedly considered running for the federal Progressive Conservative Party in 1996, but ultimately declined. When Gary Filmon was sworn in as Premier on May 9, 1988, he made Penner his

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, with responsibility for the Natural Resources Development Act. On April 21, 1989, he was shifted to the Ministry of Rural Development. Penner was dropped from cabinet on February 5, 1991, and was not re-appointed thereafter. Penner was an active spokesman for farmers affected by the BSE crisis, which kept the United States closed to Canadian beef. On May 19, 2004, he was the leading Progressive Conservative spokesman for an all-party parliamentary resolution on the issue. He did not seek re-election in 2007.

References

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