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Elmer Driedger was born on 1913, is a Canadian lawyer. Discover Elmer Driedger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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1913

Elmer A. Driedger, (1913–1985) was a Canadian lawyer and a leading authority on statutory interpretation.

He worked for the Canadian Department of Justice for over a quarter century, rising to Deputy Minister and later became a professor of law at the University of Ottawa.

Elmer A. Driedger was born in Osler, Saskatchewan, 14 January 1913 to a Mennonite family and grew up speaking German as well as English.

He attended elementary school in Osler and high school in Rosthern.

1929

Driedger entered the University of Saskatchewan in 1929, receiving his B.A. degree in 1932 and his LL.B. degree in 1934.

1934

He won a scholarship to the University of Marburg and studied there from 1934-1935: "The combination of his academic ability and German led to a scholarship at Marburg University, offered on somewhat the same criteria as the Rhodes scholarships"

1935

Attended Kiel University in 1935; "political developments in Germany force his return to Canada a year so before the war."

After returning from Germany to Depression-stricken Saskatchewan, he "ek[ed] out a living in Yorkton" and lectured in Company Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

1940

Driedger was hired in December 1940 as a librarian for the Supreme Court of Canada, working under Chief Justice Lyman Duff.

1941

He joined the Department of Justice in December 1941, where he became the Department's main legislative draftsman.

1960

He was appointed an Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice in 1954 and then Deputy Minister of Justice 1 July 1960.

1963

Driedger was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Ottawa in 1963.

1967

He retired from the Department in 1967.

He was subsequently appointed Consul General of Canada to Hamburg on 1 March 1967.

1969

Driedger joined Queen's University's Faculty of Law in August 1969.

1970

He then joined the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law in July 1970, retiring in June 1979.

Driedger also established a course in legislative drafting funded by the federal government.

His principle of statutory interpretation is the Supreme Court of Canada's preferred approach.

1974

The principle, which was originally laid out in his 1974 book, The Construction of Statutes, was quoted verbatim in the court's decision in Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd.:

Today there is only one principle or approach, namely, the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of Parliament.

The Construction of Statutes became an influential text in Canadian legal circles.

1983

A second edition was published in 1983.

1994

Following Driedger's death, Ruth Sullivan, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, substantially revised Driedger's text in the third edition published in 1994.

2002

A fourth edition was published in 2002, and a fifth edition in 2008.

Sullivan has become so closely associated with the updated edition of the book that it has since been retitled, Sullivan on the Construction of Statutes.

Driedger was married to Elsie Driedger.

and had two sons, Alan and Thomas Norman (Tom).