Martial Asselin

Martial Asselin (PC, OC, QC, born February 3, 1924 in La Malbaie, Quebec, † January 25, 2013 in Ville de Québec, Québec) was a Canadian politician. From 1958 to 1962 and from 1966 to 1972 he was progressive - conservative MP in the Canadian House of Commons until 1990 a member of the Senate. Finally, he served until 1996 as Vice- Governor of the Province of Quebec.

Life

Martial Asselin studied law at the Université Laval. In 1951 he was admitted as a lawyer. In addition to his main work, he was legal adviser to the Economic Chamber of the Charlevoix region and 1957-1963 mayor of the municipality of La Malbaie. As a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party ( Tories ), he took up to the general election in 1958 and sat for the constituency by a huge margin by Charlevoix.

First Asselin supported as a backbencher, the federal government of John Diefenbaker. Although he was defeated in the general election in 1962, Diefenbaker took him in March 1963 as Minister of Forestry on - in the hope that he would be able to regain his seat in the early general elections. However, the Tories had in the opposition, while Asselin was defeated in his constituency and was forced after only a month to give up his ministerial post.

At the general election in 1965 Asselin moved back to the constituency to the House of Charlevoix. Three years later, he succeeded in re-election. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed him on September 1, 1972 Senator. The House of Lords, he was a member of the next 18 years. In the short-lived Cabinet of Joe Clark, he was from June 1979 to March 1980 Secretary of State for the Canadian Development Assistance Authority. Two days after the resignation from the Senate, he was sworn in by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn on 9 August 1990 as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. This representative office he held until September 12, 1996.