Bernard Landry

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Bernard Landry (2006)

Jean Bernard Landry , GOQ (born March 9, 1937 in Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm , Joliette region ; † November 6, 2018 ) was a Canadian politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied law at the University of Montreal and economics and finance at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . He then worked as a lawyer as a partner in the Lapointe Rosenstein law firm in Montreal .

Landry began his political career in 1970 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ) with his unsuccessful candidacy for a seat in the National Assembly of Québec . In 1976 he was elected member of the National Assembly as a candidate in the Fabre constituency . The PQ won the election and was the prime minister for the first time , René Lévesque . In the following years he rose rapidly within the governments formed by the PQ and, after several other ministerial posts, finally became Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Pierre Marc Johnson in October 1985 . However, he held the office for just under two months until the PQ was defeated in December 1985 when the party lost 57 of its 80 seats in a landslide and was only represented by 23 members in the National Assembly.

As a result, Landry took a break from politics and taught at the School of Management at the Université de Québec à Montréal until 1994 .

When the PQ became the strongest force again in 1994 with 77 seats in parliament, Prime Minister Jacques Parizeau appointed him Deputy Prime Minister in September 1994. Under Parizeau's successor, Lucien Bouchard , he remained Deputy Prime Minister from January 1996 and again took over the office of finance minister, but also other ministerial offices in his cabinet. During this time he endeavored to strengthen the provincial economy, which had been weakened due to the longstanding political uncertainties, and to restore a good basis for public finances , in order to achieve a basis for the claims to statehood again. His efforts were ultimately successful in 1999 when he was able to present a balanced budget for the first time in many years . Like Parizeau, he was a strong advocate of Quebec sovereignty , in contrast to Bouchard's slow approach to the issue.

On March 8, 2001, he succeeded Bouchard as Prime Minister of Quebec . At the same time he succeeded Bouchard as chairman of the PQ. Landry claimed that Quebec was more than an "individual society" within Canada , but rather a nation that deserved to be viewed as a state . In doing so, however, he had to deal with the English-speaking residents and immigrants who opposed secession . Landry advocated another referendum to gain the right to negotiate independence after the last referendum failed in 1995. He made it clear that a further vote would only take place when the conditions were ripe for success. When the PQ lost the parliamentary elections in April 2003 and only had 45 of the 125 parliamentary seats left, Jean Charest , chairman of the Parti libéral du Québec , succeeded him on April 29, 2003 .

In June 2005, he resigned as chairman of the PQ and also resigned from his parliamentary mandate.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/politique-quebecoise/201811/06/01-5203181-bernard-landry-est-decede.php
personal data
SURNAME Landry, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landry, Jean Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2018