Bernie Boudreau

James Bernard "Bernie" Boudreau PC QC (born July 25, 1944 in Sydney , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who temporarily represented the province of Nova Scotia as a member of the Senate .

Life

After attending school, Boudreau completed an undergraduate degree and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed a law degree with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and subsequently worked as a lawyer.

In the late 1980s he began his political career for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party when he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Representatives for the first time in the provincial election of September 6, 1988 and represented the constituency of Cape Breton The Lakes in this until September 1997 .

After the electoral victory of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in the provincial elections on May 25, 1993, Boudreau was appointed to the provincial government by Prime Minister John Savage for the first time in June 1993 and was both finance minister and minister responsible for the lottery law ( The Lottery Act ), Minister with responsibility for the management of brandy control Act ( Liquor control Act ), Minister with responsibility for the law on public enterprises Sydney Steel Corporation ( Sydney Steel Corporation Act ) and Chairman of the management Board of Cabinet. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister of Health on June 7, 1996, as well as Minister with responsibility for the state telecommunications company Communications Nova Scotia and Chairman of the Priority and Planning Committee, and retained these functions until the end of Prime Minister Savage's term on July 18, 1997.

On October 4, 1999, Boudreau was appointed to the proposal of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien by the outgoing Governor General Roméo LeBlanc as the Canadian Senator for Nova Scotia and represented there until his resignation on October 26, 2000 the Senate District of Nova Scotia

During his Senate membership he was from October 1999 to October 2000 as chairman of the parliamentary group of the Liberal Party and as such at the same time Leader of the Government in the Senate and a member of the 26th Canadian cabinet under the leadership of Prime Minister Chrétien. In addition, he was Regional Minister responsible for Nova Scotia from October 1999 to January 2000 and later Minister of State between October 2000 and January 2001 with responsibility for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, an agency of the federal government for the promotion of the Atlantic provinces .

In the November 27, 2000 election, Boudreau ran for a member of the House of Commons in the constituency of Dartmouth , but was defeated by Wendy Lill , the incumbent MP for that constituency of the New Democratic Party (NDP). He then withdrew from politics and resumed his practice as a lawyer.

Web links

• Bernie Boudreau - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)