Maurice Lamontagne
Maurice Lamontagne PC FRSC FRSA (born September 7, 1917 in Mont-Joli , Québec ; † June 12, 1983 ) was a Canadian economist , university professor and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house and a member of the Senate for more than 20 years as well as was a minister for some time.
Life
After attending school, Lamontagne studied social sciences at Laval University and economics at Harvard University , each of which he completed with a Master of Science (M.Sc.). He then took over a professorship in economics at Laval University in 1943 and taught there until 1954. After working for a government agency between 1954 and 1957, he taught as professor of economics at the University of Ottawa from 1957 and became a fellow because of his services the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Arts .
In the general election of March 31, 1958 and June 18, 1962 , he ran for the Liberal Party in the constituency of Québec East, each unsuccessful for a member of parliament. In the following election on April 8, 1963 , he was finally elected a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Outremont-Saint-Jean until he resigned on April 6, 1967 .
On April 22, 1963 Lamontagne was appointed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson , whose advisor he was between 1958 and 1963, as President of the Privy Council in the 19th Canadian Cabinet . After a cabinet reshuffle, he became State Secretary for Canada on March 3, 1964, before resigning from this post on December 17, 1965 after the conservative opposition had wrongly accused him and the then Post Minister René Tremblay of being involved in the so-called "furniture scandal" to have been involved in the bankruptcy of the Montreal company Selkind Brothers. Prime Minister Pearson accepted the resignation with regret as the political standing was practically destroyed.
After leaving the House of Commons, he became a member of the Senate on April 6, 1967 at the proposal of Prime Minister Pearson and represented the Inkerman Senate District until his death on June 12, 1983 .
During his long term membership in the Senate, he was chairman of the Senate Special Committee for Science Policy between May 1967 and April 1968, September 1969 and September 1972 and again between January 1973 and October 1977, and from September 12, 1968 to September 1, 1972 and again from January 4 1973 to May 9, 1974 Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. In addition, he acted from October 23, 1969 to October 7, 1970 for the first time as co-chair of the Joint Special Committee of the Parliament of Canada for the Canadian Constitution . Subsequently, he was between September 30, 1974 and October 12, 1976 Vice-Chairman of this committee and again from October 18, 1977 to October 10, 1978 co-chair of the Joint Parliamentary Special Committee on the Constitution.
Him opened in 1987 and was named in honor Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Mont-Joli Rimouski named, one belonging to the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans Oceanographic - Marine Biology Institute.
Publications
- Etude sur le plan Marsh; présenté au Conseil supérieur du travail , 1943
- Le chomage dans l'apres-guerre , Québec 1944
- The économiques of the ville de Québec: le passé, le présent, l'avenir? , Québec 1946
- Le fédéralisme canadien: évolution etproblemèmes , Québec 1954
- The economic and social consequences of affluence and change , 1967
- La société d'abondance et de technostructure. Fédération des caisses populaires Desjardins, 11e congrès, 1970 , Montreal 1970
- Le Canada à l'ère exponential , Montreal 1972
- Etude critique sur la nouvelle entente Québec-Canada: manuscrits , 1980
- La réponse au livre blanc du PQ: le référendum piégé , Montreal 1980
- Monetary policy on trial , Ottawa 1981
- The double deal: a response to the Parti québécois white paper and referendum question , Montreal 1980
- Business cycles in Canada: the postwar experience and policy directions , Toronto 1984
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage
- Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia (online version)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamontagne, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician, economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mont-Joli , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1983 |