Martial Asselin

Martial Asselin ( PC , OC , QC ; born February 3, 1924 in La Malbaie , Québec , † January 25, 2013 in Ville de Québec , Québec) was a Canadian politician . From 1958 to 1962 and from 1966 to 1972 he was a progressive-conservative MP in the Canadian lower house , then a member of the Senate until 1990 . Finally, he served as Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec until 1996 .

Life

Martial Asselin studied law at the Université Laval . In 1951 he was admitted to the bar. In addition to his main professional activity, he was also legal advisor to the Chamber of Commerce of the Charlevoix region and from 1957 to 1963 mayor of the municipality of La Malbaie. As a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party (Tories) , he ran for the general election in 1958 and prevailed in the Charlevoix constituency by a large margin.

Asselin initially supported John Diefenbaker's federal government as a backbencher . Although he was defeated in the 1962 general election , Diefenbaker took him on as Minister of Forestry in March 1963 - in the hope that he would succeed in winning his seat back in the early election . The Tories, however, had to enter the opposition, while Asselin lost in his constituency and was forced to resign from his ministerial post after just a month.

In the 1965 general election , Asselin moved back into the lower house for the Charlevoix constituency. He was re-elected three years later. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed him Senator on September 1, 1972 . He was a member of the House of Lords for the next 18 years. In Joe Clark's short-lived cabinet , he was Secretary of State for the Canadian Development Agency from June 1979 to March 1980. Two days after his resignation from the Senate, he was sworn in by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn on August 9, 1990 as Lieutenant Governor of Québec. He held this representative office until September 12, 1996.

Web links

Biography on the Québec National Assembly website

Martial Asselin - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)

Martial Asselin ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved March 22, 2015.

Individual evidence

^ Martial Asselin est décédé. In: canoe.ca. Retrieved January 25, 2013 ( French )

personal data
SURNAME	Asselin, Martial
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Malbaie , Quebec, Canada
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 2013
Place of death	Ville de Québec , Québec, Canada

[1] Martial Asselin est décédé. In: canoe.ca. Retrieved January 25, 2013 ( French )