John Munro (politician)

John Carr Munro PC (born March 16, 1931 in Hamilton , Ontario ; † August 19, 2003 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house for 22 years and was a minister several times.

Life

Lawyer, local politician and MP

After attending school, Munro completed a course of study, which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed another law degree with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and then worked as a lawyer , solicitor and barrister .

In 1955 he began his political career in local politics when he until 1962 for Assistant Secretary ( Alderman was elected) of Hamilton. In the general election of June 10, 1957 Munro applied as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the constituency of Hamilton West for the first time for a mandate in the lower house, but suffered a defeat. In the subsequent election on June 18, 1962 , he was elected a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Hamilton East in this until his resignation on June 30, 1984 .

In May 1963 he took over his first government office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration and then from March 1964 to July 1965 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for National Health and Welfare and between July and September 1965 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Industry. After he was again Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration from January to September 1966, he served between October 1966 and April 1968 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Labor and Immigration.

Minister and unsuccessful candidacy for party chairmanship

On April 20, 1968, Munro was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister without Portfolio to the 20th Canadian Cabinet for the first time and, after a government reshuffle , was both Minister for National Health and Minister for National Health from July 6, 1968 to November 26, 1972 a few months later for amateur sports. After another cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister of Labor on November 27, 1972, and resigned from this Minister on September 8, 1978 for personal reasons after he and Trudeau had disagreements about the rules of conduct of ministers.

Despite previous differences of opinion, Trudeau appointed him to the 22nd government of Canada after the Liberal Party's renewed electoral success in the general election of February 18, 1980 on March 3, 1980 , where he served until the end of Trudeau's term on June 29, 1984 Held the office of Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Between February 1981 and 1984 he was also the regional minister responsible for the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory in the cabinet .

After Trudeau's resignation as chairman of the Liberal Party, Munro was one of the successor candidates at the party congress on June 16, 1984, but achieved only sixth place among the seven candidates in the first ballot with 93 delegate votes. In the second ballot, John Turner then prevailed with 1,862 delegate votes (54 percent) clearly against the two remaining competitors Jean Chrétien (1,398 votes and 40 percent) and Don Johnston (192 votes and 6 percent).

On June 30, 1984, he resigned his House of Commons mandate after he was appointed a member of the Canadian Transport Commission . In the election of November 21, 1988 , he ran in the Lincoln constituency again for a seat in the House of Commons, but failed.

The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport was named in his honor.

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