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A SASKATOON JUDGE CALLED EUGENE WESLEY ARCAND AN

Author

compiled by Debora Steel

Volume

33

Issue

3

Year

2015

“exemplary” member of the community and decided he shouldn’t have a criminal record for a dangerous driving conviction. Judge Byron Wright gave Arcand, 62, a former vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, a nine-month conditional discharge. Arcand was convicted in December of dangerous driving for aiming his vehicle at a police officer who had testified against him at a traffic court trial. Arcand denies it happened, calling it a “trumped-up charge.”