John Allen Fraser

John Allen Fraser PC OC OBC CD QC (born December 15, 1931 in Yokohama , Japan ) is a former Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the House of Commons for almost 21 years and between 1979 and 1980 Minister of Post and Environment Minister 21st Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark was. He was then Minister for Fisheries and Oceans in the 24th Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 until his resignation in 1985 . Fraser also served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1986 and 1994 and was named Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to Canadian politics .

Life

Studies, lawyer and member of parliament

After attending school, Fraser completed a law degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then served as Solicitor and as a barrister working and eventually for his legal services to Crown Counsel (Queen's Counsel) appointed.

In the election of June 25, 1968 , Fraser ran for the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) in the constituency of Vancouver South without success for the first time for a mandate in the House of Commons. In the subsequent election of October 30, 1972 , he was elected for the first time for the PC as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until November 24, 1993 for almost 21 years the constituency of Vancouver South .

At the beginning of his parliamentary membership Fraser was first environmental policy spokesman between December 5, 1972 and December 1974 and then from December 1974 and 1978 labor market policy of the PC group . After the resignation of Robert Stanfield , he was one of the candidates for his successor as chairman of the Progressive Conservative Party at the PC party conference on February 22, 1976, but was ultimately defeated by Joe Clark, who was elected the new party chairman at the age of 36.

Minister and Speaker of the House of Commons

On June 4, 1979, Prime Minister Joe Clark appointed him post office and environment minister to Canada's 21st Cabinet, which he served until the end of Clark's term on March 2, 1980. After the general election of February 18, 1980 , Fraser acted as a post-political spokesman between April 9, 1980 and September 8, 1981, and then from September 9, 1981 to September 1983 as a fisheries policy spokesman. He was then again environmental policy spokesman from 1983 to April 1, 1984, and then from April 6 to September 1984 spokesman for the PC parliamentary group for the office of Solicitor General.

Following the election of the Progressive Conservative Party in the general election on September 4, 1984 , Fraser was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Oceans by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on September 17, 1984. He held this ministerial office until he was forced to resign on September 23, 1985 due to a controversy surrounding the sale of spoiled canned tuna .

Less than a year later, on September 30, 1985, Fraser became the successor of his fellow party member John Bosley, Speaker of the Lower House and thus Speaker of Parliament. On January 16, 1994, Gilbert Parent was elected by the Liberal Party to succeed him as Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1994 Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of the Liberal Party appointed him Ambassador for the Environment and held this post until 1998.

For his longstanding political services, Fraser was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Canada on May 4, 1995 . He also received the Order of British Columbia and the Canadian Forces Decoration .

He later served as Chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Change in the Ministry of National Defense from 1997 to 2003, and Chairman of the Council for the Conservation of Fisheries Resources in the Pacific from 1998 to 2005.

Web links and sources

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE SPEAKERS OF THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS
2. ^ John Allen Fraser on the homepage of the Order of Canada