Jean-Pierre Blackburn

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Jean-Pierre Blackburn

Jean-Pierre Blackburn PC (* 6. July 1948 in Jonquiere , Quebec ) is a politician of the Conservative Party of Canada , who between 2006 and 2008 labor minister between 2008 and 2010 Minister for national income and then between 2010 and 2011 Minister of Veterans Affairs in 28 Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper was.

Life

Teacher and MP

Blackburn has worked as a teacher at a community college and as an economic manager.

He began his career in federal politics as a candidate for the Conservative Party when he was first elected member of the House of Commons in the election of September 4, 1984 , and represented the Jonquière constituency of Québec until his defeat in the October 25, 1993 election .

During his membership in parliament he was between November 5, 1974 and August 28, 1986 both Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Labor, Employment and Immigration and at the same time of the Standing Committee on Rules of Procedure and Organization. He later served as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Labor, Employment and Immigration from April 3, 1993 to May 12, 1991, and Chairman of the Sub-Committees on Immigration and Labor and Employment. He then served as Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts between May 13, 1991 and September 8, 1993.

Shortly before, Blackburn took over his first government office on September 1, 1993 and served almost six weeks until October 26, 1993 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for National Defense.

Federal Minister and UNESCO Ambassador

In the election of January 23, 2006 Blackburn was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the constituency of Jonquière-Alma and belonged to this until his recent defeat in the general election on May 2, 2011 .

Shortly after the election, he was appointed Minister of Labor in Canada's 28th Cabinet on February 6, 2006, by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and held this ministerial office until October 29, 2008. At the same time, he was Minister of the Canadian Development Agency for the regions of Quebec.

After a cabinet reshuffle, Blackburn served as Minister for National Revenue from October 30, 2008 to January 18, 2010, and then after a new government reshuffle between January 19, 2010 and November 17, 2011 as Minister of Veterans Affairs in the Harper Cabinet. At the same time he was Minister of State for Agriculture from October 30, 2008 to May 17, 2011 and thus representative of the Minister for Agriculture and Food, Gerry Ritz . On February 23, 2010, he hit the headlines when he tried to take a bottle of tequila on board when boarding a plane at Ottawa Airport , violating Transport Canada security regulations.

In December 2011, a few months after leaving the House of Commons and the government, Blackburn was appointed Ambassador to Prime Minister Harper as Head of the Permanent Mission of Canada to UNESCO in Paris .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Second cabinet minister loses cool in airport . In: CTV News Channel of March 18, 2010
  2. ^ And now, a statement from the 'Minister for Tequila' . In: CBC / Radio-Canada of March 19, 2010
  3. ↑ PATRONAGE: Defeated Tory gets soft Paris landing - with much-maligned UNESCO . In: The Globe and Mail of November 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Blackburn, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonquiere , Quebec