Gerald Regan

Gerald Augustine Regan PC QC (born February 13, 1928 in Windsor , Nova Scotia ; † November 26, 2019 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who, among other things, was Prime Minister of Nova Scotia as well as a member of the lower house for several years and temporarily federal minister was.

Life

Attorney, MP and Prime Minister of Nova Scotia

After attending school, Regan completed a law degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then took up work as a lawyer , barrister and solicitor , specializing in particular in commercial law.

After he had unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election of June 18, 1962 for the Liberal Party in the Halifax constituency , Regan was elected as a member of the House of Commons in the general election on April 6, 1963 in this constituency to this for a legislative period until the election on November 8, 1965 .

On May 30, 1967, Regan, who was chairman of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party from July 24, 1965 to 1980 , was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Representatives and represented the constituency of Halifax Needham for thirteen years until 1980 .

After he was leader of the opposition from 1967 to 1970 , he won with the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in the election of October 13, 1970 23 of the 46 seats in the Nova Scotia House of Representatives and was thereupon on October 28, 1970 as the successor to George Isaac Smith new Prime Minister of Nova Scotia . In this role, he led his party to victory in the April 2, 1974 election, in which the Liberal Party won 31 of the 46 seats.

In the subsequent election on September 19, 1978, however, he suffered an election loss in which his party only got 17 seats, while the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia , which had been in second place , got a majority with 31 seats. On October 4, 1978, Regan had to cede the office of prime minister to the leading candidate of the progressive conservatives, John Buchanan , and took over the office of opposition leader again until 1980.

Member of the House of Commons and Federal Minister

In the general election on February 18, 1980 , Regan was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the Halifax constituency, but lost this seat in the subsequent election on September 4, 1984 .

On March 3, 1980 he was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for the first time to the 22nd Canadian Cabinet and was first Minister of Labor until September 21, 1981 and at the same time first Minister of State for Sport and then from March 5, 1980 to September 29, 1982 Minister for amateur sports. On September 22, 1981 he took over the office of Secretary of State for Canada and also held this office until September 29, 1982, before he was then Minister of State for International Trade until December 6, 1983. After redesigning the department, he was again a member of the Federal Cabinet as Minister for International Trade between December 7, 1983 and the end of Trudeau's term of office on June 29, 1984. At the same time he acted from February 25, 1981 to 1984 in the Cabinet as the Executive Minister for Prince Edward Island .

In the 23rd Canadian Government formed by Trudeau's successor, John Turner , Regan served as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources from June 30 to September 16, 1984.

Regan's father-in-law John Hornby Harrison was also a Member of the House of Commons for eight years, while Regan's son Geoff Regan has been a Member of the House of Commons since 1993 with one interruption and was Minister for Fisheries and Oceans between 2003 and 2006.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan dead at 91 The Canadian Press on November 27, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2019