Bill Rompkey

William "Bill" Hubert Rompkey PC (born May 13, 1936 in Belleoram , Newfoundland ; † March 21, 2017 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Canadian educator and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the House of Commons and a member of the Senate and at times Minister.

Life

Degree, teacher and school administrator

After attending Bishop Feild College , Rompkey began studying education at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1953 , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate study in literature in 1961 with a Master of Arts (MA) with a thesis on The novels of Robert Louis Stevenson . In addition to his studies, he did his military service in the reserves of the Royal Canadian Navy between 1955 and 1963 and was last promoted to lieutenant . At the same time, he continued his education in education at the University of London .

After his return Rompkey was first teachers at schools in Upper Iceland Cove and St. John's and then head teacher ( principal ) of the Yale Amalgamated School in North West River, before he finally until 1971 Superintendent of the Labrador East Integrated School Board, which for the East the Labrador Peninsula School Board.

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

In the general election of October 30, 1972 , Rompkey was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house and first represented the constituency of Grand Falls-White Bay-Labrador and since the general election of November 21, 1988 until he resigned on September 21, 1995 the constituency of Labrador .

In December 1972 he took over his first government office and was, with a short break, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment until May 1974, before he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Labor and Immigration from September 1974 to September 1975. During this time, Rompkey was from September 1974 to October 1976 chairman of the Standing Committee of Commons on Labor, Labor and Immigration.

After the Liberal Party's electoral victory in the general election of February 18, 1980 , Rompkey was appointed Minister of National Income to the 22nd Government of Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on March 3, 1980 , and held this post until September 29, 1982. Between From February 25, 1981 to 1984, he was also the regional minister responsible for Newfoundland and Labrador in the cabinet. He was then Minister of State for Small Enterprises and Tourism between September 30, 1982 and August 11, 1982 and later Minister of State for Mining from January 10 to June 29, 1984, before his last position between June 30 and September 16, 1984 Minister of State for Transport was.

After the Liberal Party's electoral defeat in the September 4, 1984 election , Rompkey took on various roles in the opposition faction and was initially spokesman for consumer and corporate affairs from October 1984 to August 1985 and then deputy spokesman for the opposition for national defense until January 1986. In January 1987 he became the opposition spokesman for the Office of State Secretary for Canada and for Science and Technology and, most recently, between January 1988 and 1989, he was also the mining policy spokesman for his group.

Most recently, Rompkey was vice-chairman of the Standing Committee on National Defense and Veterans Affairs from May 1991 to September 1993, as well as spokesman for the opposition for national defense between February 1989 and September 1993 and as such from 1991 to 1993 simultaneously for public safety and emergency preparedness.

senator

After leaving the House of Commons, Rompkey became a member of the Senate on September 21, 1995 at the suggestion of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and was one of the six representatives of the Newfoundland Senate until his retirement, when he reached the constitutional age limit of 75 on May 13, 2011 and Labrador .

At the beginning of his Senate membership, Rompkey was Vice-Chairman of the Joint Special Committee of the Parliament of Canada on Canadian Defense Policy from January 1994 to February 1996 . He was also between February 1996 and April 1997 chairman of the special committee for the Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia and at the same time the special committee for the development company for Cape Breton Island . From September 1997 to October 2000 he was Chairman of the Standing Committee on Domestic Economics, Budget and Administration.

During his membership in the Senate, he was Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the parliamentary group of the Liberal Party from September 7, 2001 to January 14, 2004 and then until February 5, 2006, as vice-chairman of the parliamentary group, deputy leader of the government majority in the Senate (Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) . During this time, from January 2001 to November 2003, he was chairman of the Standing Committee on Selections. Most recently, Rompkey, who also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D. Hon.), Served as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans between April 2006 and March 2011.

Publications

• The novels of Robert Louis Stevenson , Thesis (MA), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1961
• The story of Labrador , Montreal 2003
• From the coast to far inland: collected writings on Labrador . Halifax 2006
• Your daughter, Fanny: the war letters of Frances Cluett, VAD , Associate Editor Bert Riggs, St. John's 2006.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Senator and MP, Bill Rompkey Passes Away at 80. In: vocm.com. Newcap Inc., March 22, 2017, accessed March 23, 2017 .