Daniel Lang (Yukon politician) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Daniel Lang
Birth Date:3 April 1948
Birth Place:Dawson Creek, British Columbia
Birth Name:Hector Daniel Lang
Party:Yukon Party
Otherparty:Conservative
Office1:MLA for Whitehorse Porter Creek East
Term Start1:1978
Term End1:1992
Predecessor1:first member
Successor1:riding dissolved
Office:Senator from Yukon
Term Start:January 2, 2009
Term End:August 15, 2017[1]
Predecessor:Ione Christensen
Nominator:Stephen Harper
Appointed:Michaƫlle Jean
Successor:Pat Duncan

Hector Daniel Lang (born April 3, 1948) is a former Canadian politician, who was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 2009 to 2017. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2, 2009.[2]

Political career

He was previously a Progressive Conservative member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek East from 1978 to 1992. Prior to the creation of the legislative assembly in 1978, he served a term on the non-partisan Yukon Territorial Council from 1974 to 1978 in the district of Whitehorse Porter Creek.[3]

His brother Archie Lang was a cabinet minister in the Yukon prior to retiring from politics in 2011.

Lang was eligible to remain in the Senate until his 75th birthday in 2023 but in 2017 he announced that he was retiring early from the Senate in order to spend more time with his family.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Hon. Daniel Lang, Senator . Parliament of Canada . March 7, 2022.
  2. Web site: Senators - Detailed Information. Parliament of Canada . dead . February 5, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090205154334/http://parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=2815&sortord=N&Language=E&M=M .
  3. "60 pct. voter turnout elects Yukon council". Vancouver Sun, November 20, 1974.
  4. Web site: Yukon Senator Daniel Lang retiring from the upper chamber. CBC News . February 5, 2018.