Jeanne Sauvé

Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé PC CC CMM CD (née Benoît, born April 26, 1922 in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, † January 26, 1993 in Montreal, Quebec ) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman. She was the first Canadian woman in history who was Governor-General.

Life

Jenne Sauvé was born in the French-speaking community Prud'homme in Saskatchewan, the daughter of Charles Albert Benoît and Anna Vaillant. She attended the Convent of Notre Dame du Rosaire in Ottawa and studied at the University of Ottawa. She took active share of the student and political life of the university and was at the age of 20 years, national chairman of the Young Catholic Students Group.

On September 24, 1948, she married Maurice Sauvé, later in the year, the couple moved to Europe where she completed the diploma examination at the University of Paris. The couple had a child. She was co-founder of the Institute for Policy Research and was over 28 years as a journalist and presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Parliamentary career

In 1972 she was elected for the Liberal Party of Canada for the constituency of Montreal in Parliament and was there, along with Monique Bégin and Albanie Morin to the first three women elected from the province of Quebec in the Canadian House of Commons. Sauvé was also the first woman from the province of Quebec as Minister of State for Science and Technology to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In July 1974 she was re-elected and took over the environment portfolio. In 1975, she was appointed Minister of State for Communications and was responsible for the French-speaking countries at the Foreign Ministry. They opened the first daycare on Parliament Hill.

1980 Trudeau appointed her as the first woman Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

Despite the fact that they should maintain as Speaker of the Parliament a neutral stance, she supported during 1980 held a referendum on the independence of the French-speaking province of Quebec from the Canadian province of those who opposed independence. This was only possible because all parties at the time a federal structure of Canada supported in the House and the referendum by the provincial government and not by a federal institution was initiated.

In addition to chair the meetings of the Parliament of the Speaker of Parliament is also responsible for the financial management and the parliamentary staff. As a spokeswoman brought significant improvements to the administrative process in the House on the way.

It initiated parliamentary debates on the Constitution of Canada and had to deal with this with numerous procedural issues such as duration of speakers ( filibuster ) and requests deal of order. She also chaired in a move by the opposition to the Energy Security Act, the meeting culminated in a two-week ringing, as the official spokesman of the minority faction refused to indicate by his appearance in Parliament to vote readiness of his group. She resisted the pressure from the government to solve the procedures blockade by their intervention and insisted that it was a matter for the parties to reach a solution by negotiation between each other.

In the winter of 1983, Prime Minister Trudeau announced her appointment as Governor General. After Elmira Minita Gordon from Belize, she was on 14 May 1984 as the second woman to hold this office in a State of the Commonwealth ( Commonwealth Realm ) sworn.

Retirement from politics

After the end of her term as Governor-General in 1990 Sauvé moved to Montreal and took care of there primarily to the needs of their Jeanne Sauvé founded by Youth Foundation.

After a long illness, she died on 26 January 1993 at the age of 70 years, her husband had died in the previous year. Both were buried in the cemetery of Notre- Dame-des- Neiges in Montreal.

Awards (selection)

• Fort Sauvé at the Military Academy Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston ( Ontario) was named in honor of her in 2001 after her. In the barracks, the 5th, 6th, and 7th Squadron are housed.

• Privy councilor on 27 November 1972. 's Appointment allowed her lifelong guiding the names additive "PC " and the title " The Honourable ".
• Honorary title of "Her Excellency The Right Honourable " during her tenure as Governor-General as well as " The Right Honourable " for life on the task of the Office.
• Chancellor and First Comrade ( Principal Companion ) of the Order of Canada during her term as Governor General, then it was Comrade ( Companion ) of the Order.
• Chancellor and Commander ( Chancellor and Commander ) of the Order of Military Merit during her term as Governor General, then she was Commander of the Order.
• Canadian Forces Decoration
• Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Prior, and Chief Officer (Chief Officer ) in Canada
• Lady of Justice in the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem ( Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem).
• Medal for the 25th Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal )
• The Honorary Doctorate in Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
• The medal of the Registrar ( Médaille de la Chancellery ) of the Universities of Paris
• The Collège Jeanne- Sauvé, a French-language high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba was named after her.