Serge Ménard

Serge Ménard , LL.L (September 27th, 1941 -) is a lawyer - criminal jurist and a politician Québécois. After having carried out a brilliant career of lawyer-criminal jurist, marked by a mandate as Barristers president of Quebec, Ménard was elected appointed Parti Québécois with the National Assembly Quebec and minister for the Public safety and during 7 the 9 years of the governments Péquiste S of Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. Since 2004, it sits as a deputy of the Québécois Bloc with the House of Commons of Canada.

Famous lawyer

After studies with the University of Montreal, where it obtains a license in right in 1965, Ménard begins its career as Crown attorney. As from 1968, it practices the criminal right and the sign as part-time lecturer at the University of Montreal and professor to the École of the Bar.

He becomes a considered lawyer, pleading the causes of the police officer Allan Gosset, the singer Claude Dubois and former members of FLQ. He was member of the general advice of the Bar, then vice-president in 1985-1986. He reaches the post of Barristers president of Quebec in 1986.

He is with the number of a lawyer handle - with Guy Bertrand, Marcel Aubut, and Laurence Corriveau -, considered as Superman of their profession, according to a report of control in anthropology deposited in 1996 per Genevieve Brisson, of the University Laval of Quebec.

Political career

He was elected for the first time as a Député of the Parti Québécois with the National Assembly Quebec in a by-election in the district of Laval-des-Rapides on December 13rd, 1993. Re-elected at the time of the general elections of 1994 and 1998, Ménard occupies of the ministerial positions within all the governments of this period: those of Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.

The three Prime Ministers entrust the responsibility for Public safety to him, a station which it will occupy from September 26th, 1994 to January 29th, 1996, from December 15th, 1998 to January 30th, 2002 and from October 29th, 2002 to April 29th, 2003. For this reason, he is the minister responsible for the Sûreté of Quebec. After the death of the young person Daniel Desnoyers, boy a 11 year old victim of an explosion in full street on August 9th, 1995, it is actively implied in the creation of the Escouade Carcajou which will lead a fight of several years to the bands of criminalized motorcyclists, like the Hell' S Angels, Outlaws, the Rock Machine and the Bandidos.

It occupied of other ministerial functions during this period: minister responsible for the area of Montreal (1996-1997), Minister for Justice and Public prosecutor in 1997-1998 and Minister for Transport in 2002. Its passage to this ministry was marked by the debate on the turn on the right with the red lights. After a controversy, the Ménard minister slices by prohibiting the operation on the island of Montreal, while leaving with the municipalities the responsibility establish or not restrictions in the remainder of Quebec.

After having been demolishes at the time of the general election of 2003, it decides to take again service while standing as a candidate of the Québécois Bloc in the district Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, which overlaps the Île Jesus and Low the Laurentides. He is elected appointed with the House of Commons at the time of the Canadian federal election of 2004.

He is currently critical Québécois Block for the Minister for Public safety. For this reason, it is those which raised questions about the practices of the former police chief of the royal Gendarmerie of Canada, Giuliano Zaccardelli, which left its station in 2006.

Social implication

Of 1975 to 1995, it takes part in the council of the governors of the House the Bearing, a processing center in drug-addiction.
He was voluntary lawyer of the Professional federation of the journalists of Quebec in the Années 1960. April 16th, 2007, it presents a private bill in order to better protect the right of the journalists not to have to reveal their sources.

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