Eric Kierans

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Eric William Kieran's PC OC (born February 2, 1914 in Montreal , Québec , † May 10, 2004 ) was a Canadian economist , entrepreneur , business manager , university lecturer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was temporarily a member of the lower house and minister.

Life

Manager, entrepreneur and university professor

After attending the École St. Thomas Aquinas and the Collège Loyola, Kierans studied economics at McGill University and graduated in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then worked in the sales department of Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd. and then from 1943 to 1945 in the sales promotion department of ES and A. Robinson Ltd. and Planned Sales Ltd. In the meantime he did his military service in the 2nd Battalion of the Victoria Rifles of Canada between 1942 and 1945 and was last promoted to lieutenant . He completed another postgraduate study of law with a doctorate in law (LL.D.).

After the end of the war, he founded Canadian Adhesives in 1946 and remained its president until 1960 and was also president of Hygiene Products Ltd. from 1952 to 1960. In addition, he took over a professorship for economics and finance at McGill University in 1953 and taught there until 1960. During this time he was also dean of the economics faculty of this university. Thereafter, Kierans served between 1960 and 1963 as President of both the Montreal Stock Exchange and the Canadian Stock Exchange , the Toronto Stock Exchange .

MPs and ministers in Québec and Canada

Kierans began his political career in his home province of Québec when he was elected as a candidate for the Parti libéral du Québec on September 25, 1963 for a member of the National Assembly of Québec , and in this until May 31, 1968 the constituency of Montréal-Notre-Dame-de -Grâce represented. Shortly before, on August 8, 1963, Prime Minister Jean Lesage appointed him Minister for Tax Income to the Québec Provincial Government and held this post until May 14, 1965. He was then Minister of Health until the end of Lesage's term on June 16, 1966 .

On April 6, 1968, he applied for the successor to Lester Pearson as party leader of the Liberal Party, but took only eighth place in the first ballot in the field of nine candidates. Ultimately, the previous Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau prevailed in the fourth ballot and was elected chairman of the Liberal Party with 50.9 percent.

In the general election of June 25, 1968 , Kierans was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party as a member of the lower house and represented the Duvernay constituency for a legislative period up to the general election on October 30, 1972 .

Shortly after the election, he was appointed Postmaster General in the 20th government of Canada by the current Prime Minister Trudeau on July 6, 1968 , and held this office until April 28, 1971. At the same time, he was from April 1, 1969 to April 28, 1971 April 1971 also Minister of Communications.

He then resumed teaching in 1972 as a professor of economics and finance at McGill University, where he taught until 1980. In 1975 he also became director of the Savings and Trust Corporation (Colombie Britannique) and in April 1978 adviser to the board of directors of the state-owned companies SIDBEC and SIDBEC DOSCO. After finishing teaching at McGill University, Kierans was re-appointed President of Canadian Adhesives Ltd in 1980 and Director of Kara Investments Limited in 1982. Between 1983 and 1984 he was also a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax .

Due to his decades of service as a scientist and politician, Kierans, who was also a Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada on October 18, 1994 .

Publications

  • Capitalism without capital: the economic implications of depreciation allowances , 1961
  • Le Canada vu par Kierans , 1967
  • Challenge of confidence: Kierans on Canada , 1967
  • Contribution of the tax system to Canada's unemployment and ownership problems , 1973
  • Report on natural resources pollcy in Manitoba , 1973
  • Our changing Canadian confederation , 1978
  • Globalism and the nation-state , 1984
  • More jobs, better security , 1987
  • Wrong end of the rainbow: the collapse of free enterprise in Canada , co-author Walter Stewart, 1988
  • Remembering , co-author Walter Stewart, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Kierans, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kierans, Eric William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2004