Bryce Mackasey
Bryce Stuart Mackasey PC ( born August 25, 1921 in Quebec City, Quebec; † 5 September 1999) was a Canadian businessman, industrialist, businessman and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was for 18 years a Member of the House of Commons and Minister several times.
Life
Entrepreneurs, local politicians and the House of Commons Member of Parliament
After attending the St. Patrick's High School in Quebec City Mackasey holds a degree in Economics from McGill University and Sir George Williams University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce ( B.Comm. ). He then worked as an entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman and was 1955-1968 president of the company Trenmore Printing, Trophies and Sporting Goods Ltd.. and was also from 1954 to 1960 and co-owner of the newspaper Messager de Verdun.
His political career began in local politics in Verdun in 1957 as Vorsitneder Municipal Sports Commission and was subsequently 1958-1962 Deputy ( Alderman ) of this city.
In the general election of June 18, 1962 Mackasey was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party member of the House of Commons, in which he represented the electoral district of Verdun until his mandate waiver on November 15, 1976. Early in his career, he was between MPs 18 February 1964 and the April 3, 1965 Chairman of the Standing House of Commons Committee on Industrial Relations. In July 1965 he took his first government post and was until September 1965 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Health and Welfare, and between January 1966 and February 1968 Parliamentary Secretary of the Minister of Labour.
Minister and member of the Quebec National Assembly
Subsequently, he was appointed on 9 February 1968 by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as Minister without Portfolio in the 19th Canadian government and held that office even after Pearson's successor, Pierre Trudeau had formed the 20th Government of Canada on April 20, 1968. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was born on July 6, 1968 Minister of Labour and then took over from 28 January to 26 November 1972, the Office of the Minister of Manpower and Immigration.
After 1974 he was Minister of State without Portfolio between 3 June and 7 August, he was born on August 8, 1974 Postmaster ( Postmaster General ) and held that office until 14 September 1976. At the same time, he was first of 16 March managing up to the April 7, 1976 Minister and then to the September 14, 1976 Minister of consumer and corporate Affairs.
On November 15, 1976, he resigned from his House seat after he was elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, and in this the constituency of Notre- Dame-de- Grâce represented by 25 April 1978.
After retiring from the National Assembly of Quebec, he ran on October 16, 1978 a by-election in the constituency of Ottawa Centre, but missed the re-entry into the House of Commons of Canada. However, he was elected to the House of Representatives again in the general election of 18 February 1980 in the constituency Lincol. At the end of the legislative period he renounced another candidacy in the general election on September 4, 1984. During this time was Mackasey between 14 April 1980 and November 30, 1983 Chairman of the Subcommittee on import policy of the Standing House of Commons Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs.
Mackasey, which was awarded by the Sir George Williams University, an honorary Doctor of Law ( LL.D. ) in 1969, was nominated after his retirement from the House of Commons by Prime Minister John Turner as ambassador to Portugal. This nomination was revoked, however, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Publications
- Le syndrome du lemming: et autres sur les allocutions conflits sociaux, Ottawa 1976
- What's behind the lemming urge: and other reflections on social conflict, Ottawa 1976