Milton George Pahl (October 30, 1943 – March 1, 2023) was a provincial level politician and current businessman from

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, Canada. He served as a member of the

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from 1979 to 1986. During his time in office he sat as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a Member of the Executive Council as Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs in the Government of Alberta from 1982 to 1986.

Political career

Pahl ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of

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with a landslide to pick up the seat for the governing Progressive Conservative party. Pahl ran for a second term in office in the

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. He more than doubled his popular vote to be re-elected by a substantial margin. After the election Premier

Peter Lougheed Edgar Peter Lougheed ( ; July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth. ...

appointed Pahl to a position in the

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as Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs. He kept that portfolio after Don Getty became premier in 1985. Pahl was involved in a row with federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs David Crombie over the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation. The band was promised a settlement of land for a native reserve in 1940. After decades of unrest and negotiation Pahl declared the matter settled in a news conference which Crombie denied. Pahl also announced that subsurface mineral rights will be included with all future land claims settlements with the Government of Alberta. Pahl ran for a third term in office in the

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but was defeated in a closely contested election by Gerry Gibeault a candidate for the New Democrats.

Late life

After leaving politics, Pahl set up a scholarship in his name at the

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comprising contributions he received from his time in public office awarded annually to a student who completed the first year of the MBA program in the top half of their class. Pahl later was the President of Native Venture Capital Company, Inc. He died on March 1, 2023, at the age of 79.Milton PAHL
obituary, ''The Calgary Herald''

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pahl, Milt 1943 births 2023 deaths Members of the Executive Council of Alberta People from Hanna, Alberta Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta