1932, picking up 1,106 votes in a losing effort, and in the 1958 Manitoba election, in which he received 588 votes running in the St. Johns riding. When he retired in 1960, fellow Communist Joseph Zuken was elected to succeed him on the Winnipeg City Council. Zuken would serve into the 1980s. Wartime internment During World War II, Penner became the first Canadian Communist interned for security reasons, being arrested on June 11, 1940 under Regulation 21 of the Defence of Canada Regulations. This allowed for the Minister of Justice, in this case Ernest Lapointe, to order the arrest and detention of individuals deemed dangerous to public safety as prisoners of war. Penner was just beginning his third term of office as an elected member of the Winnipeg City Council at the time of his arrest. Arrested together with John Naviziwsky as "active and dangerous Communists," Penner was interred in a camp for political prisoners located at Kananaskis, Alberta, outside of Calgary. The pair were held at the Kananaskis internment camp with several hundred Germans suspected of Nazi sympathies. Penner was unseated from the Winnipeg City Council as a result of his incarceration in a concentration camp, only to be replaced in a by-election by former Communist member of the Winnipeg City Council Martin "Joe" Forkin, who ran of necessity as an "Independent." Following Soviet entry into the war on the side of the British Empire, France, and the United States in the summer of 1941, Penner's incarceration became a cause célèbre, with Winnipeg politicians from across the political spectrum advocating for his pardon, culminating in Penner's release in July 1942. Following his release, Penner joined his Communist Party associates in advocating publicly for the immediate opening of a second front in Europe to take military pressure off the Soviet Union, which was fighting for its survival in the aftermath of Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa. Death and legacy Penner died on August 28, 1965. He was 85 years old at the time of his death. One son, Roland Penner, joined the Manitoba New Democratic Party and served as the province's Attorney-General in the 1980s. Another son, Norman Penner, was a professor at York University and historian of Canadian radicalism. Footnotes Works "First Campaign Statement," Winnipeg Tribune, vol. 32, no. 286 (Dec. 2, 1921), pg. 16. "Second Campaign Statement," Winnipeg Tribune, vol. 32, no. 287 (Dec. 3, 1921), pg. 9. The