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Hon. Roy Romanow, P.C., O.C., S.O.M., Q.C., BA’60, LLB’64

Roy Romanow was born, raised, and educated in Saskatoon. He was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1967 and served as Deputy Premier of Saskatchewan between 1971 and 1982. He would go on to play a key role in the federal-provincial negotiations that resulted in the Constitutional Accord and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. In 1991, he was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, a post he held until 2001. Later that year, Mr. Romanow was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to head the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, a committee designed to recommend policies and measures to ensure the sustainability of a universally accessible, publicly administered health-care system. In 2004, Mr. Romanow was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.