Alastair Gillespie
Alastair William Gillespie PC OC ( born May 1, 1922 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian business leaders and politicians of the Liberal Party, who was for several years a Member of the House of Commons and Minister.
Life
After visiting the Brentwood College School Gillespie holds a degree in economics, he initially with a Bachelor of Commerce ( B.Comm. ) At McGill University and later a Master of Commerce ( M.Comm. ) At the University of Toronto completed. Between 1941 and 1945 he did his military service in the voluntary reserve service of the Royal Canadian Navy and was recently promoted to lieutenant. Another study at the University of Oxford he ended support of a Rhodes Scholarship with a Master of Arts (MA) and later worked as a business manager from the publisher WJ Gage & Company.
In the general election of June 25, 1968 Gillespie was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the deputies in the lower house and represented in this up to his defeat in the general election on 22 May 1979 constituency Etobicoke, where he at the general election in 1979 for the new constituency Etobicoke Centre took.
At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was between September 1968 and October 1970 Vice - Chairman of the Standing House of Commons Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, before to August 1971 the President of the Treasury took over after October 1970 as Parliamentary Secretary his first government post.
After that he was appointed on 12 August 1971 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of State for Science and Technology in the 20th Government of Canada. In a cabinet reshuffle, he then took over on 27 November 1972, the Office of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, a position he held until September 25, 1975. After a further reshuffle he was between 26 September 1975 and the end of Trudeau's term of office on June 3, 1979 Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and has also played on 24 November 1978 to June 3, 1979 again, the Office of the State Minister for science and technology.
After retiring from the government and parliament, he worked as a manager again. In addition, he was active as director of the Spinal Cord Centre at Lyndhurst Hospital in Toronto, as director of the National Ballet School as well as president of the Canadian Opera Company.
For his decades-long achievements in political and economic Gillespie was appointed on 21 October 1998 Officer of the Order of Canada.
His cousin David Anderson was another long-standing liberal member of the House of Commons from 1993 to 2004, more times prime in the 26th government of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin in the formed of 27 Cabinet of Canada.
Publications
- Made in Canada: a businessman 's adventures in politics, Montreal 2009