Jean-Luc Pépin

Jean-Luc Pépin PC CC (born November 1, 1924 in Drummondville , Québec ; † September 5, 1995 ) was a Canadian political scientist , university professor and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house for several years and was a minister for several years .

Life

University professor and member of parliament

After attending school, Pépin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree . He completed further studies in political science and law with both a Licenciate in Philosophy (L.Ph.) and a Licenciate in Laws (LL.L.) and then worked as Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa .

In the general election of April 8, 1963 , he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house and represented the constituency of Drummond-Arthabaska until the general election on June 25, 1968 and then until his electoral defeat in the election on June 30 , 1968 October 1972 the constituency of Drummond . In May 1963 he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Commerce and Industry until July 1965.

minister

Subsequently, on July 7, 1965, Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed him to the 19th Canadian Cabinet for the first time as Minister without Portfolio, in which he took over the office of Minister for Mining and Technical Assessment on December 18, 1965 after a cabinet reshuffle was Minister for Energy, Mines and Resources from October 1, 1966 to April 19, 1968. As such, he was last from March 30 to April 19, 1968, also acting Minister for Trade and Industry.

Pearson's successor, Pierre Trudeau , appointed Pépin on April 20, 1968 as Minister of Labor in the newly formed 20th Canadian Cabinet while retaining the post of Minister for Energy, Mining and Resources. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, however, he became Minister of Commerce and Industry a few months later on July 6, 1968, before he was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Industry from April 1, 1969 to November 26, 1972, following a redesign of the ministerial portfolios .

After losing his parliamentary mandate and leaving the government, Pépin worked for various commissions of inquiry and was initially chairman of the anti-inflation committee from October 14 to December 15, 1975, and between July 5, 1977 and March 1, 1979 together with John Robarts , the former Prime Minister of Ontario , co-chair of the working group for the unity of Canada, which was established as a reaction to the 1976 election victory of the Parti Québécois at the provincial level.

For his political merits, Pépin was named Companion des Order of Canada on July 11, 1977 .

In the election on May 22, 1979 , he was again elected to the House of Commons and now represented the constituency of Ottawa-Carleton . In the general election on September 4, 1984 , Pépin decided not to run again.

After the Liberal Party's victory in the general election on February 18, 1980 , Prime Minister Trudeau appointed Pépin to the 22nd government of Canada on March 3, 1980 , where he was initially Minister of Transport. After he was Minister of State for External Relations from August 12 to December 6, 1983, he was again a member of the Cabinet on December 7, 1983 as Minister for External Relations and was also Minister for Francophonie. Pépin held these two ministerial posts until the end of Trudeau's tenure on June 29, 1984.

He was then a Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of Ottawa.

Fonts

• Le fédéralisme canadien: mariage de raison ou mariage d'amour? , Ottawa 1968.
• Political education in Canada , Associate Editor Jon H. Pammett, Halifax 1988. ISBN 0-88645-068-3

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Canada
• Order of Canada