Pierre Blais

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Pierre Blais , PC (born December 30, 1948 in Berthier-sur-Mer , Québec ) is a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1984 and 1993 and was a minister several times. He became a judge at the Federal Court of Canada in 1998 and a judge at the resulting Federal Court of Justice in 2003, before he was last President of the Federal Court of Appeals between 2009 and 2014. Since 2015 he has chaired the Intelligence Review Committee.

Life

Lawyer, MP and Minister

After attending school, Pierre Blais began an undergraduate degree at Laval University , which he completed in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After he 1976 postgraduate studies of law at Laval University with a Bachelor of Laws was completed (LL.B.), he was a lawyer working.

In the House of Commons election on September 4, 1984 , Blais was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the Bellechasse constituency with 24,357 votes . In the 24th cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney he took over numerous government offices and was initially Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture from November 1, 1984 to October 14, 1986. He then acted from October 15, 1986 to August 26, 1987 as Parliamentary State Secretary to the President of the Privy Council and at the same time as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Donald Mazankowski . Between August 27, 1987 and September 30, 1989, he was Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Pierre Blais was re-elected a member of the House of Commons in the election of November 21, 1988 with 27,621 votes in the Bellechasse constituency. In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the post of Solicitor General on September 30, 1989 , which he held until February 22, 1990. He then held the functions of Minister for Consumer and Corporate Affairs between February 23, 1990 and January 3, 1993, and as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from January 4, 1993 to June 24, 1993. As a minister, he also became a member of the Canadian Privy Council . In the 25th cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell , he served between June 25 and November 3, 1993 as attorney general and attorney general, as well as president of the Privy Council. In the general election on October 25, 1993 , he ran again for a seat in the constituency of Bellechasse . However, he received only 15,831 votes and thus missed the re-entry into parliament.

Federal judge

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, Pierre Blais initially worked as a lawyer again. On June 23, 1998, he became a judge at the Federal Court of Canada . After the division of this court into the Federal Court (Federal Court / Cour fédérale) and the Federal Court of Appeal / Cour d'appel fédérale , he became a judge at the Federal Supreme Court on July 3, 2003 and worked there until February 19, 2008 . In the general election on November 27, 2000 , he applied for the progressive-conservative party of Canada in the constituency of Saint-Maurice again for a seat in the lower house, but only got 966 votes and thus the re-entry into the lower house.

As the successor to John D. Richard, Blais took over the post of President of the Federal Court of Appeals on September 9, 2009 and held it until June 23, 2013, when Karen Sharlow succeeded him. Since May 1, 2015, he has succeeded the resigned Deborah Gray as Chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee / Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité , an independent body for the supervision and control of the intelligence service in Canada .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MINISTRY MULRONEY (September 17, 1984 to December 7, 1988)
  2. ↑ MINISTRY MULRONEY 2 (December 7, 1988 to June 25, 1993)
  3. ↑ MINISTRY CAMPBELL (June 25, 1993 to November 4, 1993)
  4. ^ Former Judges and Prothonotaries on the homepage of the Federal Court / Cour fédérale
  5. ^ Former Chief Justices on the homepage of the Federal Court of Appeal / Cour d'appel fédérale
personal data
SURNAME Blais, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berthier-sur-Mer , Quebec