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Two Senate appointments: Martin’s former principal secretary, Quebec lawyer
Dan DugasCanadian Press
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/s.gifOTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin exercised his patronage prerogative again Monday, making his 15th and 16th appointments to the unelected Senate since becoming prime minister.
Martin rewarded Montrealer Francis Fox - one of the architects of his Liberal minority election win and former principal secretary - with a $119,300-a-year job.
The prime minister also named Yoine Goldstein, a lawyer with Goldstein, Flanz and Fishman, a Montreal firm specializing in bankruptcy law.
Both will sit as Liberals.
Fox, a 65-year-old former Liberal MP and cabinet minister in governments from 1972 to 1984, served as Martin’s gatekeeper last year before leaving for the private sector.
Fox was forced to resign as solicitor general in former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet in 1978 after he helped arrange for an abortion for a woman with whom he had had an affair.
He had signed the name of the woman’s husband on a document but was back in cabinet two years later and was defeated in the 1984 election.
canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=b190f7a6-2b64-48ef-bea3-cecec995e96a
Dan DugasCanadian Press
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/s.gifOTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin exercised his patronage prerogative again Monday, making his 15th and 16th appointments to the unelected Senate since becoming prime minister.
Martin rewarded Montrealer Francis Fox - one of the architects of his Liberal minority election win and former principal secretary - with a $119,300-a-year job.
The prime minister also named Yoine Goldstein, a lawyer with Goldstein, Flanz and Fishman, a Montreal firm specializing in bankruptcy law.
Both will sit as Liberals.
Fox, a 65-year-old former Liberal MP and cabinet minister in governments from 1972 to 1984, served as Martin’s gatekeeper last year before leaving for the private sector.
Fox was forced to resign as solicitor general in former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet in 1978 after he helped arrange for an abortion for a woman with whom he had had an affair.
He had signed the name of the woman’s husband on a document but was back in cabinet two years later and was defeated in the 1984 election.
canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=b190f7a6-2b64-48ef-bea3-cecec995e96a