Pierre Marois

See also: Marois

Pierre Marois (Montreal, March 7th, 1940 -) is a politician, a economist and a lawyer Québécois.

Native of Montreal, it studies in right to the Université of Montreal where it obtains his license. He works then for the Ministre for the Education of Quebec and continues his studies with the Université Laval. He is a former member of the Ordre of Jacques-Cartier.

After having studied the economy at the doctoral level with Paris, it is engaged by the Confédération of the national unions (CSN) then it enters to the Barreau of Quebec.

It chairs the association of the students of its university and joint the Parti Québécois. Initially demolishes with three recoveries (1970, 1971 and 1973), it is elected appointed in 1976 in the circonsciption of Laporte.

He becomes a famous lawyer following a legal victory against the American multinational Richardson-Merrell, the manufacturer of the Thalidomide in Canada in 1977. To be done, he worked in close cooperation with a lawyer firm chaired by Arthur J. Raynes of Philadelphia.

In the governments of Rene Lévesque, he is initially Minister for Social development. For this reason, he will sponsor the formation of the Commission of health and the occupational safety (CSST) in 1979. Later, it becomes Minister for the Labor. He resigns in 1983 and returns to the practice of the right.

In the Years 1990, it chairs the Council of the essential services and in the Années 2000, it is with the head of the Commission of the rights of the person.

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