Michael Hopfner

{{Short description|Canadian hotel owner, electrical contractor, and politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} '''Michael Alfred Hopfner''' (January 25, 1947<ref name="quiring"/> – April 19, 2009<ref name="hansard">{{cite web |url=http://docs.legassembly.sk.ca/legdocs/Legislative%20Assembly/Hansard/26L3S/100308Hansard.pdf |title=Hansard |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |date=March 8, 2010 |accessdate=2012-08-31}}</ref>) was a hotel owner, electrical contractor and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Cut Knife-Lloydminster from 1982 to 1991 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Conservative.

He was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and was educated in Lake Lenore and at the Moose Jaw technical school.<ref name="quiring"/> He served on the town council for Lashburn, also serving as mayor.<ref name="hansard"/> Hopfner served as government whip in the assembly.<ref name="quiring"/> He was defeated by Violet Stanger when he ran for reelection in 1991.<ref name="results">{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |accessdate=2012-03-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112235500/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |archivedate=2013-11-12 }}</ref>

Hopfner was found guilty of fraud in for his actions in the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative scandal of the 1980s and was sentenced to 18 months in jail<ref name="quiring">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA111 |title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present |last=Quiring |first=Brett |page=111 |year=2004 |ISBN=0889771650 |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center Press |accessdate=2012-08-31}}</ref> and ordered to pay $56,000 in restitution.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fraudsters-repay-public-debt-1.225477 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101110411/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/01/25/fraudmoney000125.html |url-status=live |archive-date=January 1, 2013 |title=Fraudsters repay public debt |publisher=CBC News |date=January 25, 2000 |access-date=2012-08-31}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/macleans/saskatchewan-tories-in-fraud-scandal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008223003/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/macleans/saskatchewan-tories-in-fraud-scandal |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2012 |title=Saskatchewan Tories in Fraud Scandal |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |last=Bergman |first=Brian |author2=Eisler, David |accessdate=2012-08-31}}

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