Camille Laurin

Biography

Camille Laurin obtained a diploma in Psychiatrie with the Université of Montreal, where he studied under the influence of the Chanoine Groulx. He is a former member of the catholic Jeunesses coeds, group which provided many public personalities. After having obtained its diploma, Laurin left to Boston to the Massachusetts, to make there a training course postdoctoral at the hospital of State of Boston ( Boston State Hospital ). Then, after a short period with Paris to improve in psychoanalysis, it returned to practice in Quebec.

In 1961, Laurin signed the postface of the book the insane ones shout the Help! , a book of Jean-Charles Pagé on the psychiatric hospitals of the time. He was then qualified schoolteacher and director of the department of psychiatry at the University of Montreal. He was one of the first founders of the Mouvement Québécois souverainist, seeing the Indépendance of Quebec as necessary a collective Psychothérapie which would treat the complex of inferiority Inhabitants of Quebec.

As a minister of state with Social development in the first government of the Left Québécois elected in 1976, it guided the adoption of the law 101, which establishes the French like only official language of the Québécois State. Later, the Prime Minister Rene Lévesque defended this law publicly, but he hesitated to make in the same way into private. Lévesque thought that to have to legislate on the language of the majority was one humiliation necessary because of colonial situation Québécois.

Laurin signs, on November 9th, 1984 in Quebec, letter of the twelve , in which half of the Ministers for the government Lévesque are opposed to the strategy Beau risks Prime Minister and claim that sovereignty is in the middle of the electoral campaign of the following year. November 26th, 1984 in Quebec, he resigns of his ministerial responsibilities, like six other colleagues. He leaves his station of deputy of the National Assembly of Quebec on January 25th, 1985 in Quebec.

He returns to the Québécois Party after the accession of Jacques Parizeau and takes again his seat of Le Bourget to the election of September 12th, 1994, but the Prime Minister Parizeau will not entrust any ministerial responsibility to him. It leaves definitively the political life in 1998, in reasons of health issues.

Alas! while he devoted himself intensely to psychiatry and the policy, he knew in his private life of the rather dramatic situations.

Camille Laurin dies on March 11th, 1999 in Quebec following a fulgurating Cancer. It was 76 years old.

Honors

1986 - Price Chomedey-with-Maisonneuve
1989 - Outstanding commendation award of the Department of psychiatry of the Medical college of the University of Montreal
1990 - Outstanding commendation award in psychiatry of the Association of the doctors psychiatrists of Quebec
1993 - Medal of the 150e birthday of the Medical college of the University of Montreal
1999 - the Grand Prix of the Office of the French language, in Quebec, is famous {{quotation|Price Camille-Laurin}}
2004 - Commander of the Order of the Pleiad (on a purely posthumous basis)

External bonds

Jean-Claude Picard, 2003, {{quotation|Camille Laurin, the man upright}}; Editions Boreal, 568 p.; (ISBN 13.978-2-7646-0261-4), (ISBN 10 2-7646-0261-8); (biography)
Biographical note of the site of the National Assembly of Quebec
Note of the University of Sherbrooke
an inventory of the files of Camille Laurin
Homage to Camille Laurin (on television. by 6 personalities of Quebec), March 11th, 1999, approximately 20 minutes (audio-visual Files of Radio-Canada)
Its page in the encyclopedia canadienne

* Homage to Camille Laurin, of the 102e course to the College of the Assumption

Letter of Camille Laurin at its wife, on December 22nd, 1998

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