Yvon Pinard
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Yvon Pinard, PC (born October 10, 1940) is a judge and former Canadian politician.
Pinard was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 election. He was the Liberal Party's Deputy Government House Leader from 1977 to 1978. He was Government House Leader and President of the Privy Council in the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1980 until June 1984 when he left politics to accept an appointement to the bench.
He has been a judge on the Federal Court of Canada and the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada since leaving politics in 1984.
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