William H. Jarvis
William Herbert Jarvis PC QC (born August 15, 1930 in Hamilton , Ontario , † April 27, 2016 in Cornwall , Ontario) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) who was a member of the House of Commons for almost twelve years . Between 1979 and 1980 he was Minister of State in the 21st Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark .
Life
After attending school, Jarvis first completed an undergraduate degree at the London Central Collegiate Institute, which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed another postgraduate study of law at the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and then took up a position as a lawyer. For his legal services he was appointed Crown Counsel (Queen's Counsel) .
In the general election of October 30, 1972 , he was elected as a candidate of the progressive-conservative party for the first time as a member of the lower house and initially represented the constituency of Perth-Wilmot and from the election of May 22, 1979 until he left the lower house on September 3, 1984 the constituency of Perth . At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was first deputy spokesman for the PC parliamentary group on agriculture between December 20, 1974 and May 1976 and then environmental policy spokesman for the opposition from May 1976 to October 1977 , before he was spokesman for the PC parliamentary group between October 1977 and June 1979 for the office of Solicitor General.
On June 4, 1979 he was appointed by Prime Minister Joe Clark as Minister of State with special responsibility for federal-provincial relations in the 21st Cabinet of Canada, of which he was until the end of Clark's tenure on March 2, 1980. From July 1979 to March 1980 he was also chairman of the cabinet committee for relations between the federal government and the provinces.
After the election defeat in the general election of February 18, 1980 , Fraser acted between April and December 1980 as energy policy spokesman for the PC faction and later from September 1983 to April 1984 as spokesman for the opposition for labor and the Canada Post Corporation .
Jarvis was also from March 15, 1986 to January 1, 1989 President of the Progressive Conservative Party and as such was responsible for the management and internal organization of the party.
Individual evidence
Web links and sources
- CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jarvis, William H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jarvis, William Herbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian lawyer and politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 2016 |
| Place of death | Cornwall , Ontario |