Education
After the war, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (as distinguished from the undergraduate degree Juris Doctor or Doctor of Jurisprudence currently offered by the University of Toronto) from the University of Toronto.
After the war, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (as distinguished from the undergraduate degree Juris Doctor or Doctor of Jurisprudence currently offered by the University of Toronto) from the University of Toronto.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, a son to Luba Lubinsky and Abraham Shumiatcher (1890–1974), he received a Bachelor in 1940 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1941 from the University of Alberta. He received his Master of Laws in 1942 from the University of Toronto. From 1943 to 1945, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as an air gunner.
In 1946, he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan at the invitation of Tommy Douglas to become law officer of the Attorney General.
He soon became the personal assistant to Douglas. In 1948, he was appointed the youngest King"s Counsel in the Commonwealth of Nations, in order to argue a case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, United Kingdom.
Their ample house on College Avenue across street from Regina College was amply decorated with locally-produced paintings, many of which were later donated to Mackenzie Art Gallery, originally adjacent to Regina College and later relocated in the T.C. Douglas Building at the western eastern end of Wascana Centre. He was the author of the Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, the model for the Canadian Bill of Rights.
lieutenant was the first Bill of rights in Canada and was one year before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1949, he left government to practise private law and appeared in his practice many times before the Supreme Court of Canada. Foreign 14 years he was an honorary consul general for Japan and Dean of the Consular Corps for Saskatchewan. He authored Welfare: Hidden Backlash in 1971 and Manitoba of Law: A Model in 1979.