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Alf Skowron is a retired politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Winnipeg City Council from 1971 to 1989, originally a member of the New Democratic Party and later as an independent. ==Councillor== Skowron was first elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the 1971 municipal election, for the Talbot Ward in the St. Johns area. He was re-elected in 1974. When Winnipeg's city council was restructured in 1977, Skowron ran in the new division of Elmwood and defeated fellow councillor Ray Brunka, whom he defeated again in 1980, 1983 and 1986. He lost his seat to Lillian Thomas in 1989. Skowron also campaigned for Mayor of Winnipeg in a 1979 by-election, but finished well behind frontrunners Bill Norrie and Joseph Zuken. Skowron was on the right-wing of the New Democratic Party. In 1979, he led council opposition to the introduction of bilingual English and French municipal signs. The signs were introduced to recognize the legal rights of Manitoba's francophone community; Skowron argued that they privileged one particular ethnic group.〔"Debate on French signs inflames city passions", ''Globe and Mail'', 14 April 1979, P8.〕 When he ran for mayor later in the same year, he sought but did not receive the provincial NDP's official endorsement. He accused the party of being infiltrated with communists, citing that Communist Joseph Zuken had emerged as the main left-of-centre candidate.〔"Deputy, Communist two top contenders in Winnipeg election", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 20 June 1979, P9.〕 Skowron and fellow NDP councillor Bill Chornopyski broke with their party's position in September 1983, and voted for the City of Winnipeg to hold a plebiscite in response to the provincial government's decision to reintroduce official bilingualism.〔Raymond M. Hebert, ''Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale'', Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, p. 142.〕 Both councillors left the NDP shortly after the 1983 election, and Skowron later affiliated with a centre-right group on council. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alf Skowron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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