Claude Morin (pequist)

Biography

After its traditional course with the seminar of Quebec, it obtains, in 1954, a control into economic with the faculty of social sciences of the Université Laval whose senior was then the father Georges-Henri Lévesque. On the councils of this last, it supplements a control in social wellbeing of the Université Columbia of New York in 1956. Professor of economic policies and social in Laval as from September 1956, it takes part in various research, writes several articles in specialized magazines and, of 1958 with 1961, is commentator with the emission “the economic life” of Radio-Canada.

Shortly after the liberal electoral victory of June 1960 and while remaining professor, it writes the speeches of the new Prime Minister, Jean Lesage, which chooses it in 1961 as economic council. In 1963, Morin leaves the university to set up the ministry for the federal-provincial Businesses of which it becomes the deputy minister, posts that it will hold until October 1971, under Lesage initially, then Daniel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Bertrand and Robert Bourassa. Morin contributed directly to the majority of the most determining initiatives of the Quiet revolution: nationalization of electricity, General society of financing, mode of revenues, Case of deposit and placement, international relations of Quebec, etc

Returned in 1971 with the university education with the National school of public administration (ENAP), its reflection on its experiment of the government leads it to choose the sovereignty of Quebec. Candidate demolishes Québécois Party in the district of Louis-Hébert in 1973, it convinces his party, with his congress of November 1974, to proceed to the realization of sovereignty by the way chief clerk, an approach which the media popularized under the name of etapism .

Elected in 1976 at the same time as its party, he becomes Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses, person in charge of the relationships of Quebec with the other governments, both in Canada and abroad. After the defeat chief clerk of 1980, it takes an active part in the constitutional negotiations launched by the Trudeau government and, respecting the decision of the population, it defends the traditional positions of Quebec there. But this series of talks finishes with the disadvantage of Quebec in consequence of the rallying of the anglophone provinces to the federal objectives. At the beginning of 1982, Morin gives up the active policy, as a minister and a deputy, and takes again his university education.

In the years which follow, Morin remains close to Rene Lévesque and continuous to militate in favor of sovereignty by its conferences and its articles. It as well publishes several books on the Prime Ministers of which he was the adviser, as on his political life and the files of which he treated: international relations of Quebec, federal-provincial debates and orientation of the Québécois Party. Explaining the events with which it was mixed and giving them in their context, its more recent work (the Morin Business: legends, stupidities and calumnies) answers, as the subtitle implies it, charges of which it was the object: trusting certain appearances, of the journalists and the political adversaries indeed claimed that, in complicity with Ottawa, it had served the interests of Quebec and its party, an allegation actually contradicted by the actions and the writings which marked out all its career.

Random links: