Roch La Salle

Roch La Salle PC (born August 6, 1929 in Saint-Paul , Québec , † August 20, 2007 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the House of Commons for almost 20 years and between 1979 and 1980 Minister of supply and services in 21 Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark was. Later, La Salle, who was Chairman of the Union nationale in Québec in 1981, was Minister for Public Works from 1984 to 1987 and Minister of State in the 24th cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney .

Life

Professional activities, mayor and member of the House of Commons

Originally from the private sector, La Salle worked as a sales representative, director and public relations officer and business manager . His political career began in local politics as a councilor ( Alderman ) in Crabtree , a small community in Lanaudière , whose mayor he was from 1957 to 1965.

In the election of November 8, 1965 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) in the constituency of Joliette-L'Assomption-Montcalm for the first time for a mandate in the House of Commons. In the following election on June 25, 1968 , he was elected member of the House of Commons for the PC in the Joliette constituency and represented this constituency until March 16, 1981, where he left the PC on May 4, 1971 and in the election on May 30 , 1981 October 1972 ran successfully as a non-party candidate. On February 26, 1974, he then rejoined the Progressive Conservative Party as a member. During his membership in the House of Commons, La Salle was between December 20, 1974 and May 1976, first deputy spokesman for the PC group for agriculture and then from May 1975 to October 1977 his group's spokesman for fitness and amateur sports. He then served as the opposition spokesman for employment between October 1977 and 1978 .

Federal Minister and Chairman of the National Union

On June 4, 1979, La Salle was appointed Minister of Utilities and Services to the 21st Cabinet of Canada by Prime Minister Joe Clark, which he served until the end of Clark's tenure on March 2, 1980. After the defeat in the general election on February 18, 1980 , he acted between April 9, 1980 and September 8, 1981 as the opposition spokesman for economic and regional development.

After he had been elected chairman of the Union nationale (UN), a regional party in Québec, on January 19, 1981 as the successor to Michel Le Moignan , he resigned his lower house mandate on March 16, 1981 in order to put the UN in the upcoming election National Assembly of Quebec to lead. After the UN received only 144,070 votes (4.00%) and lost its eleven seats, he resigned as party leader on June 6, 1981 and was replaced by Jean-Marc Béliveau .

On August 17, 1981, La Salle returned to federal politics after he was re-elected as a member of the lower house for the progressive-conservative party in a by-election in the constituency of Joliette and was a member of the lower house until he resigned on November 20, 1988. In the following period he acted from September 9, 1981 to September 1983 as spokesman for the PC group for the Québec region and then between 1983 and 1984 as spokesman for the opposition for public works.

After the Progressive Conservative Party's victory in the September 4, 1984 general election , Wise was appointed Minister of Public Works on September 17, 1984 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He held this ministerial office until June 29, 1988. He then became Minister of State without portfolio on June 30, 1986, but had to resign from this office on February 19, 1987, because he was involved in several affairs that were troubling the government. However, the criminal proceedings against him for bribery and influence were later dropped.

Web links

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Canadian Ministries at rulers.org