Lucien Cardin

Louis-Joseph-Lucien Cardin PC QC (born March 1, 1919 in Providence , Rhode Island , † June 13, 1988 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the House of Commons for several years , temporarily minister and 1983 for some Months first President of the newly formed Tax Court of Canada .

Life

After attending Loyola College, Cardin graduated from the University of Montreal with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. During the Second World War he did his military service in the Royal Canadian Navy between 1941 and 1945 and was most recently promoted to Lieutenant Commander . He completed another law degree at the University of Montreal with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and, after being admitted to the bar in June 1950, began working as a lawyer .

Cardin was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in a by-election in the Richelieu-Verchères constituency on June 6, 1952 for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was a member of this House for more than 14 years until he resigned for health reasons on April 3, 1967. On February 9, 1956, he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Assistant to the Foreign Minister until April 12, 1957.

Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed him on April 22, 1963 as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the 19th Government of Canada , in which he was then from February 15 to July 6, 1965 Minister of Public Works. On July 7, 1967, Favreau became Attorney General and Attorney General in Pearson's administration. During his term of office in March 1966, the parliamentary reappraisal of the Munsinger affair about the alleged prostitute Gerda Munsinger from Germany , who is said to have had love affairs with ministers of the previous conservative government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker . In a House of Commons debate on March 4, former Prime Minister Diefenbaker called Justice Minister Cardin a "dwarf in the clothes of a giant" because of his handling of another espionage case. Cardin fought back by referring to the Munsinger case (he deliberately mispronounced the name as Munsignor, but those in the know knew who he meant by that).

On April 3, 1967, he resigned from his ministerial office for health reasons, resigned his parliamentary mandate and resumed his legal work.

In 1972 he switched to the civil service and was initially vice-chairman and then between 1975 and 1983 chairman of the tax review board . Subsequently, on July 18, 1983, he became President ( Chief Judge ) of the newly established Tax Court of Canada and held this judicial office until he was replaced for health reasons in October 1983 by the previous Vice-President of this court, Donald Christie .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage
• Entry on the homepage of the Tax Court of Canada
• Lucien Cardin Is Dead; Canadian Aide Was 69 . In: The New York Times, June 15, 1988