Mary Collins

Mary Collins , PC (born September 26, 1940 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada , who was a member of the Lower House of Canada between 1984 and 1993 and was temporarily a minister.

Life

Mary Collins completed an undergraduate degree , which she completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). She then worked as an entrepreneur. On September 4, 1984, she was elected as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada for the first time as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and represented in this until her electoral defeat on October 25, 1993 the constituency of Capilano in British Columbia and most recently the constituency of Capilano-Howe Sound . At the beginning of her parliamentary membership, she was from November 5, 1984 to August 28, 1986 both Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Estimates and Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Consumer and Business Affairs, before she was Chair of the Standing Committee on from September 1986 to October 1988 Consumer and corporate affairs was. On January 30, 1989, she became a member of the Canadian Privy Council .

Then Mary Collins was from September 30, 1989 to January 3, 1993 Assistant Secretary of Defense in the 24th cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney . At the same time she acted between February 23, 1990 and November 3, 1993 as Minister responsible for the status of women and from January 4, 1993 to June 24, 1993 as Minister for Economic Diversification of the West. She was also Minister of State for the Environment from January 4 to June 24, 1993. In the subsequent 25th cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell, she held the office of Minister for National Health and Welfare and Minister for Amateur Sports from June 25 to November 3, 1993.

Web links

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament
• Canada: Ministries

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
2. ^ Ministry Mulroney 2
3. ^ Ministry of Campbell