Stewart McInnes

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The Honourable
Stewart McInnes
PC, QC
Member of Parliament
for Halifax
In office
1984–1988
Preceded by Gerald Regan
Succeeded by Mary Clancy
Personal details
Born Stewart Donald McInnes
(1937-07-24)July 24, 1937
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Political party Progressive Conservative
Profession Lawyer

Stewart Donald McInnes (July 24, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was a Canadian lawyer, arbitrator and federal politician.

Education

In 1954, while studying at Dalhousie University, he became a brother in the Sigma Chi fraternity, who later named him a Significant Sig.[1]

Law career

From 1961 to 1999, McInnes was a senior partner in the Halifax, Nova Scotia law firm of McInnes, Cooper, and appeared before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. He also served as the president of the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association from 1983 to 1984.

Political career

In the 1984 general election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Halifax, defeating Liberal Cabinet minister and former Premier of Nova Scotia Gerald Regan.[2]

In 1985, he was appointed to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's cabinet as Minister of Supply and Services.[3] From 1986 until 1988, he concurrently held the positions of Minister of Public Works and Minister responsible for CMHC.[4]

McInnes was defeated in the 1988 federal election by Liberal Mary Clancy due, in part, to the unpopularity of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement in Atlantic Canada.[5][6] He returned to his law practice full-time.

After politics

He was a certified arbitrator and mediator, and focused professionally in those areas after leaving politics. McInnes served as Director of the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada from 1993 to 1995, and as director of the Atlantic Arbitration and Mediation Institute from 1993 to 1994. In 1996, he was on the International Mediation Centre’s advisory board, and in 1999, he was a panel member of the Canadian Foundation for Dispute Resolution. He has lectured and written extensively on the topic of mediation and arbitration.

After leaving the House of Commons, McInnes remained active in politics as a fundraiser for the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia.

McInnes died on October 3, 2015.[7]

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External links

  1. ↑ http://www2.sigmachi.org/foundation/significant_sigs.phtml?strLetter=M&PHPSESSID=b04e7418cd1c9a052772ebe5077e972d
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