Saul Cherniack served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps of the Canadian Army in the Second World War.<\/p>\n
A lawyer by profession, Mr. Cherniack has a history of public service dating back to 1950 when he was elected to the Winnipeg School Board. He served four years as a school trustee, followed by service as a Winnipeg Beach councillor (1958-59), City of Winnipeg alderman (1959-60) and councillor for the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg (1960-62).<\/p>\n
Mr. Cherniack was first elected to the Manitoba Legislature in 1962, was finance minister from 1969 – 1972, and again from 1973 – 1975, when he relinquished the portfolio. As minister for urban affairs he was one of the main architects of the creation of a single city embracing the metropolitan area of Greater Winnipeg. He retired from politics in 1981 when he was appointed Chairman of Manitoba Hydro.<\/p>\n
In 1984 he was appointed to the Privy Council of Canada and from 1984-92 served on the Security Intelligence Review Committee.<\/p>\n
Active in the Jewish community, he is a past president of the Winnipeg Jewish Welfare Fund and a past national vice-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-13287","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}