Pierre de Bane

Pierre de Bané PC QC (born August 2, 1938 in Haifa , Palestine , † January 9, 2019 in Ottawa , Canada ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the House of Commons for 16 years and was temporarily a minister Was a member of the Canadian Senate from 1984 to 2013 .

Life

After attending the Collège St-Alexandre and the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières, de Bané completed a degree in social sciences at the University of Laval , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed another law degree at the University of Ottawa with a Licentiate of Laws (LL.L.) and then took up a position as a lawyer in 1964.

In the general election of June 25, 1968 , he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, initially representing the Matane constituency and, most recently, since the general election from May 22, 1979 to June 29, 1984, the Matapédia constituency. Matane . At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Broadcasting, Film and Support for the Arts between October 1969 and February 1972, and a few months later took over his first government office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Minister in December 1972 and then from January 1974 to May 1974 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Consumer and Corporate Affairs before he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Urban Affairs between September 1974 and September 1975.

On November 24, 1978, de Bané was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of Utilities and Services in the 20th government of Canada , which he belonged to until the loss of power on June 3, 1979 due to the defeat in the general election of May 22, 1979 .

After the election success of the Liberals in the general election on February 18, 1980 , Prime Minister Trudeau also appointed him to the 22nd Canadian cabinet, initially until January 11, 1982 as Minister for Regional Economic Expansion. After he was then Minister of State at the Foreign Minister, he last served in this government between September 30, 1982 and June 29, 1984 as Minister for Fisheries and Oceans.

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, de Bané, who was awarded an honorary doctorate in administrative sciences (Doc.Sc.Adm. (Hon.)), Became a member of the Senate and represents him on June 29, 1984 at the suggestion of the outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau in this since then the Senate district De la Vallière . The title of it was in 1985 Kronanwalts ( Queen's Counsel ) awarded.

During his long membership in the Senate, he was vice-chairman of the special committee for the legislative procedure on procedural amendments, the so-called Bill C-110 Special Committee , and at the same time co-chairman of the Joint Special Committee of the Parliament of Canada on defense policy. He was then vice-chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on National Finance from February 1996 to April 1997. Since January 2012 he has been the spokesman for the liberal group for international cooperation.

De Bané's tenure as senator ended when he reached the age of 75 on August 2, 2013.

Publications

• Conflit d'intérêts dans deux organismes administratifs: la Commission des transports (Québec) et la Commission des transports (Canada) , 1975
• Notre milieu de vie , 1976
• Le rang des gages généraux entre eux: la loi des pouvoirs spéciaux des corporations , 1975
• Rapport établi en application de l'article 12.7 du règlement et présenté à la Commission sur la restructuration des services documentaires des parlements du Sud (Pardoc) , Paris, AIPLF, 1995
• Rapport sur le program de restructuration des services documentaires des parlements du Sud (Pardoc) , Paris, Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie, 1999

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage
• Current biography on the Senate homepage
• Entry on the homepage of the Liberal Party