Ron Veale Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
Ron Veale
Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Ontario
Office1:MLA for Riverdale South
Term Start1:1981
Term End1:1982
Predecessor1:Iain MacKay
Successor1:Bea Firth
Office2:Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party
Term Start2:1981
Term End2:1984
Predecessor2:Iain MacKay
Successor2:Roger Coles
Party:Liberal
Occupation:lawyer and Judge

Ronald Stuart Veale is a Canadian jurist and former politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1982. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1981 to 1984.

Veale assumed the leadership of the Yukon Liberal Party in 1981 after the resignation of Iain MacKay, also running in and winning a by-election on March 9, 1981, to succeed MacKay as MLA for Riverdale South.[2] Under his leadership, however, the party was entirely shut out of the legislature in the 1982 election.[3] Veale resigned the party leadership in 1984, and was succeeded by Roger Coles.

He subsequently returned to his law practice. He was later appointed to the Supreme Court of Yukon, of which he was the Chief Justice until his retirement in July 2020.[4] [5] Veale was appointed to the Order of Yukon in December 2020.[6]

Notes and References

  1. http://yukonlegislaturespeaks.ca/index.php/biographies/mla/ronald-ron-veale Yukon Legislature Speaks: Ron Veale
  2. "Byelections". CPA Activities: The Canadian Scene, Vol. 4, No. 2.
  3. "Northerners wary of plan to impose bilingualism". The Gazette, March 24, 1984.
  4. http://www.whitehorsestar.com/archive/story/we-now-have-a-clear-direction-from-the-supreme-court/ "‘We now have a clear direction from the Supreme Court’"
  5. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1800459331521 CBC News (audio): "New and retiring chief justice of Yukon Supreme Court reflect on the role"
  6. Web site: Meet this year's inductees to the Order of Yukon. CBC News. December 3, 2020.