Editing Harry Enns (section)

==Politics and controversies==
In 1976, Enns nearly derailed plans by the Schreyer government to bring a series of Russian artworks from [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]'s Hermitage and the State Russian Museum to Manitoba, during a North American tour.  His position was grounded in an opposition to [[Communism]] and the [[Soviet Union]], though he eventually withdrew his objections.

During the mid-1980s, Enns was a vocal opponent of officially re-entrenching French-language services in Manitoba (a policy being pursued by the [[New Democratic Party of Manitoba|New Democratic]] government of [[Howard Pawley]]).  Ironically, his seat was targeted by the anti-bilingualism [[Confederation of Regions Party]] in 1986, although this challenge ultimately came to very little.

A philosophical conservative, Enns was also responsible for weakening market board control over Manitoba's hog farms, and appears to have had similar intentions regarding its fishing industry.  In 1995-96, he was accused of approving illegal fishing activities by the Spirit River Fish Company, though he denied this charge.

Perhaps his greatest contribution to Canada, was the role he played in the legalizing of industrial hemp. At a time when the public mood was anti cannabis, Harry was the first politician of power, to stand and risk his reputation, in order to help Manitoba farmers.
The three experimental hemp plot trials he sanctioned in 1995, 1996, and 1997 yielded key information that convinced Health Canada to allow hemp crops to go to seed, which birthed the hemp food industry.