Biography
He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1979.
He was an activist in the AUUC and the Communist Party, and a founding and Board member of the Gravenhurst Society for Socialist Education.
Military Service
(He had Second World War service.) He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCN(R) 1946.
He served in HMCS Star for UNTD 1946. (He was released.)
Anecdotes
The People's Voice 2009 reported that "In 1999 he was involved in a famous petition to the International Court in The Hague, relating to NATO involvement in Yugoslavia. "A group lawyers from several countries has laid a formal complaint with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia against all of the individual leaders of the NATO countries and officials of NATO itself. The complaint was initiated by professors from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto -- where Tribunal prosecutor Louise Arbour was also a professor before becoming a judge. The group has charged Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Javier Solana, Jamie Shea, Jean Chretien, Art Eggleton, Loyd Axworthy and 60 other heads of state and government, foreign ministers, defense ministers and NATO officials, with war crimes committed in NATO's six-week old bombing campaign against Yugoslavia."
References
- Williamson, R.J. (1993)
- Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD)
