Jacques Flynn

Jacques Flynn PC OC QC (* 22. August 1915 in Saint-Hyacinthe , Quebec ; † 21st September 2000 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada , who for a term of a Member of the House , for 32 years a member of the Senate and was temporarily minister.

Life

Lawyer, Professor and Member of the House of Commons

After attending school, Flynn first completed an undergraduate degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), and then a law degree , which he completed with a Licentiate of Laws (LL.L.). Then he worked as a lawyer involved and was for his legal services to Crown Counsel ( Queen's Counsel appointed). For a time he was a professor of law at Laval University .

In the general election of June 10, 1957 , Flynn ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the constituency of Québec South for the first time unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house. In the subsequent election of March 31, 1958 , he was elected as a member of the House of Commons in this constituency and belonged to it until his defeat in the House of Commons election on June 18, 1962 . For a few months between January 15, 1959 and July 18, 1959, he was vice chairman of the House of Commons special committee on broadcasting.

Minister and Senator

On December 28, 1961, he was appointed Minister of Mines and Technical Assessment to Canada's 18th Cabinet by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and served in that office until July 12, 1962. During his membership in the House of Commons, Flynn served from January 14, 1960 to May 27, 1962. December 1961 as Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons as a whole.

At the suggestion of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Flynn was appointed a member of the Senate for Québec on November 9, 1962 and represented there for 32 years until the age limit of 75 on August 22, 1990, the Rougemont Senate District .

During his tenure in the Senate, Flynn was the leader of the opposition in the Senate from October 31, 1967 to May 22, 1979 . During the opposition period, he was spokesman for his party's faction in the Senate for Economic Affairs and Tax Policy between 1972 and 1974. He later served as Vice-Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on the Constitution of Canada from November 11, 1978 to March 26, 1979 .

Flyann was appointed Attorney General and Attorney General of Canada to the 21st Cabinet by Prime Minister Joe Clark on June 4, 1979, and served until the end of Clark's tenure on March 2, 1980. During this time he was also the leader of the government majority in the Senate and also deputy chairman of the majority faction in the Parliament of Canada . During this time he was also vice-chairman of the cabinet committees on federal and provincial relations, legislation and planning, and of the council's special committee and a member of numerous other cabinet committees.

After his party's defeat in the general election on February 18, 1980 , he served again as leader of the opposition in the Senate between 1980 and 1984. He was then from November 5, 1984 to August 28, 1986 co-chair of the Joint Parliamentary Special Committee on International Relations.

For his services, Flynn was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Canada (OC) on April 22, 1993 .

Publications

• Un bleu du Québec à Ottawa , 1998.

Web links and sources

• Curriculum Vitae (Canadian Parliament homepage)
• Entry to the Order of Canada