Haakon Arntzen is a Canadian

Canada

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 politician. He represented the electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

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 of Copperbelt in the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Yukon Legislative Assembly

-History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

 as a member of the Yukon Party

Yukon Party

The Yukon Party , is a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It was previously known as the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.-Declining fortunes:...

.

First elected in the 2002 territorial election, Arntzen left the Yukon Party caucus in April 2004 to sit as an independent after being criminally charged with the sexual assault

Sexual assault

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of two teenage girls in the 1970s. He resigned his seat in September 2005 when he was convicted.