Martin O'Connell (politician)

Martin Patrick O'Connell PC ( born August 1, 1916 in Victoria, British Columbia; † 11 August 2003) was a Canadian economist, university professor and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was for several years a Member of the House of Commons and Minister.

Life

Studies and university teachers

After schooling completed O'Connell, the son of Irish immigrants, a study at Queen's University in Kingston, which he finished with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then worked as a teacher. During the Second World War he did his military service in the replacement reserve of the Service Corps of Royal Canadian Army and was recently promoted to captain. After the war continued O'Connell, who also worked as an investment dealer in the early 1950s, his studies at the University of Toronto and graduated from this with a Master of Arts (MA). In 1954 he acquired there a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) with a dissertation on the publicist and politician Henri Bourassa, Henri Bourassa, titled and Canadian nationalism.

He then worked as a lecturer and professor at the University of Toronto and worked at the beginning of the 1960s as an adviser to Finance Minister Walter L. Gordon instrumental in the key legislation for Canada Pension Plan, Medicare and the Municipal Development Plan Loan with.

In the general election on November 8, 1965, he applied for the Liberal Party in the constituency Greenwood for the first time to a lower house seat, but suffered a defeat.

House of Commons Member of Parliament and Minister

In the subsequent general election of 25 June 1968 he was elected as a representative of the constituency of Scarborough East for deputies in the lower house, lost this seat but already at the next general election on 30 October 1972.

During this time he was first October 1969 to August 1971 initially Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Regional Economic Expansion and then subsequently between 12 August 1971 and January 27, 1972 Minister of State without portfolio. After that he was appointed on 28 January 1972 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of Labour in the 20th Canadian Cabinet, to which he belonged until November 26, 1972. After retiring from the House of Commons and the Government, he worked in the following two years as First Secretary ( Principal Secretary ) of Prime Minister Trudeau.

In the general election on July 8, 1974 O'Connell was elected MPs in the constituency of Scarborough East again. He lost the mandate in the next election on May 22, 1979 again.

After his re-entry into the House, he served between September 30, 1974 to October 12, 1976 as Co - Chairman of the Joint Special Committee of the Parliament of Canada for immigration policy. Last O'Connell was 24 November 1978 until the end of Trudeau's term of office on June 3, 1979 again Minister of Labour in the 20th government. In the general election on 8 February 1980, he ran again in the constituency of Scarborough East, but was not elected.

Last O'Connell was from January 1984 to January 1989 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety).

Publications

  • Henri Bourassa and Canadian nationalism, Thesis ( Ph.D.) - University of Toronto, 1954
  • Henri Bourassa, a select bibliography, Toronto 1954
  • Canadian standards of housing in Indian reserve communities, 1965
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