Jean Lapierre

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Jean-Charles Lapierre (born May 7, 1956 in Bassin , Magdalene Islands , Québec ; † March 29, 2016 Havre-aux-Maisons , Magdalene Islands, Canada ) was a French-Canadian politician ( Liberal Party ) and radio journalist in Québec .

Life

After completing a law degree from the University of Ottawa , Lapierre was an elected MP in the Canadian House of Commons at the age of 23 . Five years later, as Secretary of State for Youth and Recreational Sports, he became the youngest Minister of State in Canadian history for a few months. He was one of the founders of the separatist Bloc Québécois .

After an eleven year absence, he returned to the House of Commons, having won another seat in the Canadian General Election in 2004. On 20 July 2004 he was appointed Minister of Transport in the Cabinet of Paul Martin appointed. He was responsible for this office until the new election in 2006 . On January 11, 2007, Lapierre announced his intention to withdraw from national politics. He resigned as Member of Parliament for Outremont on January 28, 2007 .

In a short time he built up a second career as a television and radio journalist. He worked as a political analyst and commentator for the Québec television station TVA and the Montreal radio station 98.5 FM . He was also talk show host of the political program Larocque-Lapierre in a duo with reporter Paul Larocque. He was also a political commentator for the radio stations CJAD in Montreal and FM 93 in Québec City . He was a regular contributor to Power Play and Question Period on CTV .

Together with co-author Chantal Hébert, he published the non-fiction book The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was in 2014 , which was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing .

On March 29, 2016, Lapierre and four other family members died on the way to his father's funeral in a plane crash due to gusts of wind during the approach to Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport, Havre-aux-Maisons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le duo Paul Larocque et Jean Lapierre analyze les faits marquants de l'activité politique québécoise et canadienne. In: archive.wikiwix.com (French).
  2. ^ Canadian fall books list long, diverse and quirky; Big names in fiction and politics. Montreal Gazette , September 14, 2014 (English).
  3. ^ Shaughnessy Cohen Prize finalists announced. The Globe and Mail , January 27, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Air crash: Ex-Minister Lapierre dies on the way to the funeral. In: spiegel.de . March 30, 2016, accessed March 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lapierre, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lapierre, Jean-Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and radio journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Basin , Magdalen Islands , Quebec , Canada
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2016
Place of death Havre-aux-Maisons , Magdalen Islands , Quebec , Canada