Commercial Jean (trade unionist)

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honourable the Commercial Jean , C.P., D.C., LL.D. (December 20th 1918 - August 28th 1988) was a public figure well-known Canadian-French, a Syndicaliste and a politician of the province of Quebec, with the Canada.

Born with Champlain the junior by a family by six children, Marchand grows in a brick house opposite the road which leads to the station. His/her Gustave father dies of a Maladie of the kidneys in 1921. His/her mother, widow, remain in Champlain until in 1929, when she moves with Montreal to ensure a future her children. Merchant lives on the street Hutchinson and it meets Pierre Vadeboncœur. It returns later in Champlain because of the Economic crisis. At the fifteen years age, in 1933, Marchand leave Champlain to study with the Saint-Joseph Academy close to Quebec. In 1939, it is allowed directly at the school of social sciences of the Université Laval, which had just been founded the previous year by the Dominican father Georges-Henri Lévesque.

Having received its diploma of faculty, he becomes the general secretary of the Confédération of the catholic workers of Canada in 1947, at the time of the Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis. At the time of the strike of Asbestos in 1949, Marchand carries out the workers strikers. It is at this time that it meets Pierre Trudeau, the future writer of Free Cité and Prime Minister of Canada. Merchant was solicited to be candidate at the time of the federal election of 1963, but it was not represented for personal reasons.

With the federal election of 1965, the Liberal party convinces Marchand to be presented, with Trudeau and Gerard Pelletier. This team forms what one calls consequently Three doves the , of the French Canadian public men sent to Ottawa to reform the Canadian federal policy. Trudeau and Pelletier were quickly elected in the “red” fortresses of Montreal, whereas Marchand had to lead a more difficult electoral combat to Quebec. Merchant promptly received a station in the cabinet Lester B. Pearson after his election.

When Pearson took its retirement in 1968, Marchand was seen as the Québécois candidate who had the best chances to replace it, in front of Trudeau, but he refused to lead the race to the direction of the Liberal party. Trudeau had the free track to be presented in the form of the most viable candidate to maintain new the French Power established recently in the federal capital and started by the Quiet revolution. Trudeau gained the race with the direction of the party and the Canadian election of 1968.

In the Trudeau government, Marchand occupied various stations. In 1976, it resigned of its seat to the House of Commons because it was in disagreement with a political decision limiting the use of French to the air-traffic controllers of Quebec. Being presented in the form of an opponent of the separatist program of the Left Québécois, it was demolishes like candidate of Robert Bourassa at the time of the Québécois election of 1976.

Merchant was named with the Sénat of Canada less than one month later, and he became the President of the Room in 1980. He was decorated with the row with Companion with the Ordre with Canada in 1986.

He took part in the meeting of Bilderberg in 1965.

Ministerial positions

Under Pearson

It was appointed Minister for the citizenship and immigration, then Minister for the labor and immigration.

Under Trudeau

It held several of high ministerial responsibilities under the first minsitre Pierre Trudeau. He was Minister for the forests and the rural development of 1968 with 1969, Minister for the regional economic expansion of 1969 with 1972, Minister for transport of 1972 with 1975, Minister without portfolio of 1975 with 1976 then minister of environment in 1976.

External bonds

political Biography of the Library of the Parliament
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