Yvon Dupuis
Yvon Dupuis PC (born October 11, 1926 in Montreal , Québec ; † January 1, 2017 in Longueuil ) was a Canadian entrepreneur , businessman and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was a member of the lower house for several years and a minister without portfolio for some time .
Life
Dupuis, whose father Hector Dupuis was also a member of the House of Commons between 1950 and 1958, worked as an insurance agent and owner of two music shops after attending the Collège de Varennes, the Collège de Longueuil and the École normal Jacques-Cartier in Montreal .
Dupuis began his political career when he was elected to the National Assembly of Québec as a candidate of the Parti libéral du Québec on July 16, 1952 and represented the constituency of Montréal-Sainte-Marie until June 19, 1956 . In the general election on June 10, 1957 , he ran unsuccessfully as an independent liberal for a seat in the lower house in the constituency of Saint-Jean-Iberville-Napierville and was elected member of the Liberal Party in the following election on March 31, 1958 in this constituency elected by the House of Commons. He was a member of the House of Commons until his defeat in the general election on November 8, 1965 .
On May 14, 1963 he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State for Canada until February 2, 1964. Subsequently, Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed him on February 3, 1964 as Minister without Portfolio in the 19th Canadian Cabinet . Less than a year later, on January 21, 1965, Dupuis had to resign from his ministerial office after he was accused of having unduly influenced a racetrack project in the town of Saint-Luc , which is part of his constituency . After leaving the House of Commons, he returned to his activities in the private sector and was co-founder and president of Societé Thémis Multifactum between 1965 and 1972 as well as founder of the magazine Défi .
At the beginning of the 1970s he began to get involved again in the politics of the province of Québec and on March 4, 1973 became president of the Ralliement créditiste du Québec party . In the election for the National Assembly on October 29, 1973, he ran for this in the constituency of Saint-Jean , but missed the entry into the provincial parliament, while two candidates from the party were elected to the National Assembly. A few months later he left the Ralliement créditiste du Québec and instead founded the Parti présidentiel on May 5, 1974 , which, however, dissolved again on October 21, 1974.
He then worked as a moderator for various radio stations such as CKVL, CKAC and CHLT, as well as being President of Publivox. He also founded the travel agency Agence de Voyages Yvon Dupuis Inc. in 1981 , which he operated until 2003, and has been President of the tour operator Tours Expert since 1988 . In 2003 he published his autobiography Des souvenirs ... et des regrets aussi .
Web links
- Yvon Dupuis - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
- Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly of Québec
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupuis, Yvon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 2017 |
| Place of death | Longueuil |