Sheila Copps

Sheila Maureen Copps OC ( born November 27, 1952 in Hamilton ( Ontario) ) is a Canadian journalist, author, politician and member of the Canadian Privy Council. She was Minister of Canadian Culture and Environment Minister of Canada.

Copps comes from a politically shaped family that enjoys great reputation in Hamilton. Her father is Victor Copps, one of the most influential mayor of the city of Hamilton. Her mother, Geraldine Copps is long-standing councilor of Hamilton.

Sheila Copps belonged until 2004 to the left wing of the Liberal Party of Canada. In her political career, she has fought for the rights of women and minorities. In addition, it was committed to protecting the environment.

Career

Copps graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in the subjects of French and English at the University of Western Ontario in London (Ontario ) from. Then worked as a journalist at the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen.

1977 started Copps first time in the election of the state parliament of Ontario for the Ontario Liberal Party in the constituency of Hamilton Centre and lost with only 14 votes against the incumbent Mike Davison, the Ontario New Democratic Party.

The next four years she worked as assistant to the party chairman Stuart Smith in his constituency, before the state parliament of Ontario in 1981 took in the election and won against Mike Davison. In 1982, she was chair of the Ontario Liberal Party.

In 1984, she turned to national politics and won in the parliamentary elections their constituency Hamilton East. She pulled so for the Liberal Party of Canada a the House of Commons of Canada.

Copps was in the small liberal opposition to an influential politician who openly opposed the Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his government. After two years in the Canadian House of Commons, she published her autobiography, Nobody's Baby and has been listed in Canada as the first Prime Minister.

In 1988 she was re-elected to the House and candidate for the party presidency in 1990 the Liberals. In the election, she was strong third party.

In the parliamentary elections in 1993, the Liberals were the strongest force and Jean Chrétien was prime minister. He took Copps as environment minister in the Canadian Cabinet 26 and appointed her as the first woman ever appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. In a cabinet reshuffle in 1996, she gave up the office of the Minister of the Environment and was appointed Minister of Canadian culture. After the general election in 1997 was Sheila Copps her position as Deputy Prime Minister on.

After Jean Chrétien no longer took in 2004, Copps is running for the party presidency of the Liberals. It was supported by only a few members, such as Charles Caccia and lost to favorites Paul Martin, the Prime Minister of Canada was also in 2004. After that she no longer went to the election for the lower house.

Works

• Nobody's Baby. A Survival Guide to Politics. Deneau Publishers, 1986, ISBN 0-88879-135-6
• Worth Fighting for. Publisher McClelland & Stewart, 2004, ISBN 0-7710-2282-4