- Antonio Yanakis
Antonio Yanakis (
6 July 1922 – c. December 1997) was a Liberal party member of theCanadian House of Commons . He was born inMontreal and became an industrialist by career after receiving aBachelor of Commerce atMcGill University inMontreal .He represented the Quebec riding of
Berthier—Maskinongé—delanaudière , later Berthier thenBerthier—Maskinongé , since winning a seat in the 1965 federal election. Yanakis was re-elected in 1968, 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980.Yanakis was defeated in the 1984 federal election by
Robert de Cotret of the Progressive Conservative party. He made another unsuccessful bid to unseat de Cotret in the 1988 election as an independent candidate.External links
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