Herb Breau

Herb Breau PC (born December 5, 1944 in Haut Sheila , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian economic manager and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house for more than 16 years and was briefly a minister.

Life

After attending school, Breau completed a degree in economics , which he completed with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce (B.Sc.C.), and then worked as a business manager.

At the age of 24 Breau was elected a member of the House of Commons in the general election on June 25, 1968 and represented the constituency of Gloucester for more than 16 years until his electoral defeat in the general election on September 4, 1984 . During his membership in parliament he was, among other things, from February 17 to September 1, 1972 Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regional Development.

On December 22, 1972 he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce until December 21, 1973. Later he was between January 1 and May 9, 1974, first Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy, Mines and Resources and then until September 14, 1975 Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Minister. He later served as Vice-Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs between October 12, 1976 and October 17, 1977. From April 14, 1980 to November 30, 1983, Breau served as chairman of both the House of Commons Special Committee on North-South Relations and the Special Committee on Tax Agreements between the Federal Government and the Provinces .

Prime Minister John Turner appointed him on June 30, 1984 as Minister for Fisheries and Oceans in Canada's 23rd Cabinet , which he served until the end of Turner's brief tenure on September 16, 1984.

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, he worked in the private sector and, among other things, was a member of the supervisory board of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) in the 1990s and a manager at Syscan International, where he was its managing chief executive officer (CEO) from 2000 to 2001 was.

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