Serge Joyal

Serge Joyal PC OC OQ (born February 1, 1945 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the Lower House for ten years and temporarily Secretary of State for Canada and has been a member of the Senate since 1997 .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

After attending school, Joyal studied at the University of Montreal , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed another law degree at the University of Montreal with a Licenciate of Laws (LL.L.) and later a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He also obtained a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Européennes (DES) from the University of Strasbourg and worked as a lawyer after 1969.

In the general election of July 8, 1974 , Joyal was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until his electoral defeat in the general election on September 4, 1984 the constituency of Maisonneuve-Rosemont . At the beginning of his membership in the House of Commons, he was from September 30, 1974 to October 12, 1976 Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.

On October 1, 1980, he took over his first government office as Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury and was then Minister of State without portfolio from September 22, 1981 to September 29, 1982. In addition, Joyal was from April 14, 1980 to November 30, 1983 co-chair of the Standing Committee of the Parliament of Canada for the Canadian Constitution .

Secretary of State for Canada and Senator

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed him Secretary of State for Canada in the 22nd Canadian Cabinet on September 30, 1982 . Joyal held this position between June 30 and September 16, 1984 in the 23rd government of Canada formed by Trudeau's successor, John Turner . After leaving the government and the House of Commons, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. On November 14, 1996, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada for his longstanding political services and his commitment to the arts and cultural heritage .

On November 26, 1997, Joyal became a member of the Senate on the proposal of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and has since represented the Senate district of Kennebec . As the incumbent Senator, he is expected to be a member of the Senate until he reaches the constitutional age limit of 75 on February 1, 2020.

During his previous Senate membership, Joyal was chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Senator Conflicts of Interest from October 4, 2004 to December 30, 2009 and has been Vice-Chairman of both the Senate Standing Committee on Senators' Conflicts of Interest and the Special Committee against the Senate since March 3, 2010 Terrorism. In 2015 he was elected a Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Publications

• Action Montréal , co-editor Jean-Claude Marsan, Montréal 1978
• Legal, constitutional and political imperatives to Senate reform , Ottawa 2000
• Protéger la démocratie canadienne: le Sénat en vérité , Montréal 2003
• France, Canada, Québec: 400 ans de relations d'exception , co-editor Paul-André Linteau, Montréal 2008

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage
• Entry on the Senate homepage
• Entry on the homepage of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Private homepage
• Order of Canada

Individual evidence

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