riding predecessor successor birth_place party profession birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name
etobicoke -- lakeshore ken robinson jean augustine bracebridge , ontario , canada progressive conservative lawyer , writer 04 march 1945 1984 bracebridge and toronto corinne -lrb- deceased -rrb- ; elise marie patrick boyer
 1993 hon. j. patrick boyer
patrick boyer

j. patrick boyer , q.c. -lrb- born march 4 , 1945 -rrb- is a university professor , journalist , author , policy activist , publisher , and a former progressive conservative member of parliament -lrb- 1984 -- 1993 -rrb- .
before entering politics , boyer was a partner in the fraser & beatty law firm in toronto , where he specialized in communications law and electoral law .
a major part of his practice was also in the western arctic as a member of the northwest territories bar .
when granted his queen 's council designation , note was made of boyer 's contribution to the legal profession in authoring the definitive series of texts on canadian election law at federal , provincial , territorial , and municipal levels .
boyer earned a master 's degree in canadian history and a doctor of laws -lrb- lld -rrb- degree , both from the university of toronto and gained an honours degree in economics and political science from carleton university .
he also studied french-canadian literature at university of montreal , and international law at the academy of the international court of justice in the hague .
