Joe Ghiz
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The Honourable Joe Ghiz Q.C., LL.D., D.C.L., LL.M. |
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| 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island | |
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In office May 2, 1986 – January 25, 1993 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Lieutenant Governor |
Lloyd MacPhail Marion Reid |
| Preceded by | James Lee |
| Succeeded by | Catherine Callbeck |
| Leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party | |
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In office October 24, 1981 – January 23, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Gilbert Clements (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Catherine Callbeck |
| MLA (Assemblyman) for 6th Queens | |
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In office September 27, 1982 – March 29, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Barry Clark |
| Succeeded by | Jeannie Lea |
| 12th Dean of Dalhousie Law School | |
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In office 1993–1995 |
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| Preceded by | Philip Girard |
| Succeeded by | Dawn Russell |
| Personal details | |
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Joseph Atallah Ghiz January 27, 1945 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Died | November 9, 1996 (aged 51) Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Ellen McGowan (m. 1972) |
| Children | Robert and Joanne |
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| Occupation | lawyer, Crown prosecutor, law school dean, and judge |
| Profession | Politician |
| Cabinet | Minister of Health and Social Services (1986) Minister of Agriculture (1988–1989) Minister of Justice (1989–1993) |
| Religion | Anglican |
Joseph Atallah "Joe" Ghiz (January 27, 1945 – November 9, 1996) was the 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1986 to 1993, an educator of law and a justice of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island. He was the father of Robert Ghiz, the 31st Premier of Prince Edward Island. He was the first premier of a Canadian province to be of non-European descent, since followed by Ujjal Dosanjh and Ghiz's son, Robert.
Ghiz was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Atallah Joseph Ghiz, a Lebanese corner store owner, and Marguerite F. Ghiz (née McKarris). Ghiz was a graduate of Dalhousie and Harvard law schools and was a Charlottetown lawyer before entering into politics.
Ghiz was active in the Canadian Bar Association. In 1977, in the aftermath of the election of the separatist Parti Québécois government in 1976, he was asked to sit on the CBA Committee on the Constitution. The mandate of the Committee was to study and make recommendations on the Constitution of Canada. The members of the Committee were drawn from each province of Canada, and included two future provincial premiers (Ghiz and Clyde Wells), a future Supreme Court of Canada justice, two future provincial chief justices, and a future Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. The Committee presented its report to the CBA at the next annual meeting, in 1978. The Committee made wide-ranging recommendations for constitutional change, including a completely new constitution, abolishing the monarchy, changing the Senate, entrenching language rights and a bill of rights, and changing the balance of powers between the federal government and the provinces.
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