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Frédéric Dorion

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with the Nazis. Dorion represented the Count in his court proceedings and also told the House of Commons, "I am sure that if it had been Communist Jews who had come here instead of French Catholics we would not have heard a word about them."
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He is best known for writing the 1965 Dorion Report on federal government corruption after being appointed to lead a commission of inquiry into alleged bribery and coercion by ministerial assistants in the federal government known as the
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Dorion announced he was joining the Progressive Conservative party on May 4, 1949, as that year's election campaign opened and led the party's campaign in the Quebec City area. He was defeated in the
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of the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties and as looking after the interests of Quebec residents in Ottawa. Dorion, in turn, accused
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in 1942 to oppose the government's conscription policy, Dorion was re-elected as an independent in 1945.
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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
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In 1949, Dorion spoke out against the extradition from Canada of Count
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Dorion was appointed to the bench and became chief justice of the
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After a failed attempt to launch a new political party led by
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Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
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He was adamantly opposed to conscription during the
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Index

House of Commons of Canada
conscription
World War II
Laval University
Royal Flying Corps
World War I
Quebec City
Conservative Party
Charles Napoléon Dorion
Noël Dorion
World War II conscription crisis
by-election
Charlevoix—Saguenay
Thérèse Casgrain
Sasseville Roy
Liguori Lacombe
Wilfrid Lacroix
Emmanuel D'Anjou
imperialism
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Labor-Progressive Party
Bloc populaire
Maurice Duplessis
Union Nationale
1945 federal election
Arthur Cardin
crossed the floor
Jacques Charles Noel Duge de Bernonville
Vichy France
Gestapo

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