Clyde Wells

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Clyde Kirby Wells (born the November 9th 1937) is a judge Newfoundlander and a former politician and Prime Minister of this province.

Born with Buchans Junction, with Newfoundland, Wells obtains its diploma of baccalaureat are arts to the Université Memorial of Newfoundland in 1959 and its diploma in law to the Faculty of Law of the Université Dalhousie in 1962.

Wells initially entered in policy in 1966 when he was elected with the Room of Parliament as a liberal deputy, being used in the cabinet as Joey Smallwood until in 1968 when he resigned to protest against the authoritative character of Smallwood. Wells left the policy in 1971 and returned to its legal practice, having developed an expertise in constitutional Law. In 1987, it made its return in the political scene to be elected chief of the liberals, who had remained in the benches of the Opposition during more than one decade.

In 1989, it led its party to the victory, putting fine at seventeen years of government by the conservatives. As a Prime Minister, Wells was opposed to the Accord of the lake Meech, objecting to the legal provision of distinct Société for the Quebec. Wells made it possible the Room of Parliament to vote on the agreement, but when the opposition of Elijah Harper to the Manitoba prevented the ratification by its province, Wells cancelled the planned vote.

Wells compressed the provincial budget and tried privatiser the hydro-electric service held by the province, but it could not go in front of with privatization because of a strong popular opposition. Wells resigned of its post of Prime Minister in 1996. The Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed it chief of the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland in 1998.

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