Bob Mackling, who was asleep in the house at the time, was unharmed and said he was not even awakened.

There was one issue in Mackling's tenure as Attorney General that was quite controversial.

The Tories were defeated in the 1981 provincial election, and Minaker lost his own riding to Al Mackling by 779 votes.

Alvin H. Mackling (Assiniboia)

Plohman, Uskiw and Mackling were designated as ministers responsible for the Manitoba Telephone System Act.

Alvin Mackling, a retired lawyer, born December 31, 1927 in Winnipeg, Manitoba is a longtime Democratic Socialist.

As Attorney General, Mackling sought to develop better police-public cooperation introducing a system of cautions for highway traffic first offences and established a Manitoba Police Commission.

He was re-elected by a comfortable margin in the 1959 election (defeating future NDP cabinet minister Alvin Mackling), and by fairly comfortable margins in the elections of 1962 and 1966.

The amalgamation was unpopular with many St. James residents, and Minaker was able to use the issue to win election to the Manitoba Legislature, defeating NDP incumbent Al Mackling in the provincial election of 1973 by 374 votes.