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Michael Meighen
Michael Arthur Meighen (born in Montreal, March 25 1939) is a Canadian Senator, lawyer and cultural patron.
Meighen is the grandson of former Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen and has continued the family tradition of involvement in the Conservative Party of Canada. A corporate lawyer based on Toronto's Bay Street, Meighen is a longtime friend, advisor and fundraiser for former Progressive Conservative leader and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who appointed Meighen to the Senate in 1990 representing Ontario.
He and his wife Kelly are benefactors of the Stratford Festival. In 2004 he became Canadian chair of the Atlantic Salmon Federation which promotes conservation efforts.
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