Sharon Carstairs

Sharon Carstairs PC (birth name: Sharon Connolly, born April 26, 1942 in Halifax, Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada, more than 17 years, the province of Manitoba acted as a member of the Senate of Canada.

Life

Sharon Carstairs is the daughter of Harold Joseph Connolly, who until September 1954 briefly Prime Minister of Nova Scotia, and then from 1955 to 1979 was Senator of April for Nova Scotia and the Canadian Senate the Senate District represented Halifax North. After school she studied, she first graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate teaching degree she finished with a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT ) and was subsequently employed as a teacher.

Her political career began in the province of Manitoba, and was there from March 1984 to November 1992 Chairperson of the Manitoba Liberal Party. In the province of election of 18 March 1986, she was first elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and represented in this up to her appointment as Senator in 1994 the constituency of River Heights. During her Parliament membership it was between 1988 and 1990 Chairman of the Group of Manitoba Liberal Party in the Legaslitvversammlung and thus became the first woman in the history of Manitoba's Leader of the Opposition ( Leader of the Opposition).

On 15 September 1994 Sharon Carstairs on a proposal by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn for Senator for Manitoba. The Senate of Canada, she belonged to until her premature resignation on 17 October 2011. Your regular membership would have lasted no longer than until reaching the age limit of 75 years on 26 April 2017.

During their membership in the Senate it was initially, between February 1996 and April 1997 Chairman of the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs and then Deputy September 1997 to October 1999 Chairman of the Government fraction ( Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate ) and the connection of October 1999 to October 2000 both chairman of a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, which dealt with current issues concerning life and death, as well as Vice - Chairman of the Special Committee on Illegal Drugs.

Following Sharon Carstairs was on 9 January 2001 as leader of the Liberal Party Leader of the Government in the Senate ( Leader of the Government in the Senate ) and has held this function in 26 Canadian Cabinet by the end of Chrétien's term of office on 11 December 2003rd at the same time, she was appointed on 14 March 2001 by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as Minister with special responsibility for palliative care and has held this office also until 11 December 2003.

Later she was from April 2006 to September 2008 and again from January to December 2009 Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging and at the same time, between April 2006 and September 2007 Vice - Chairman of the Standing Committee on Human Rights. Most recently, she served between January 2009 and December 2009 also available as a Chairman or Vice- Chairman of the Standing Joint Committee of Parliament for the Parliamentary Library.

Publications

  • Not one of the boys, 1993
  • Dancing backwards: a social history of Canadian women in politics, co-author Tim Higgins, 2004
  • Raising the bar: a roadmap for the future of palliative care in Canada, 2010
  • Pages of reflection: a journal of essays by Senate pages, editor, 3 volumes, 2006-2010
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