Eric Kierans

Eric William Kierans PC OC ( born February 2, 1914 in Montreal, Quebec, † 10 May 2004 ) was a Canadian economist, entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics and politicians of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was temporarily delegate in the House of Commons and Minister.

Life

Managers, entrepreneurs and university teachers

After Bsuch the École St. Thomas Aquinas and the Collège Loyola graduated Kierans a degree in Economics from McGill University and graduated in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then worked in the sales department of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd.. and then from 1943 to 1945 in the sales promotion department of ES and A. Robinson Ltd.. Planned and Sales Ltd. In the meantime he made between 1942 and 1945 his military service in the 2nd Battalion of the Victoria Rifles of Canada and was recently promoted to lieutenant. Another post-graduate studies in law, he finished with a Doctor of Laws ( LL.D. ).

After the war, he founded the company in 1946 and remained until 1960 Canadian Adhesives, its President and was also the 1952-1960 President of Hygiene Products Ltd.

In addition, he took over in 1953 a professor of Economics and Finance at McGill University and taught there until 1960. During this time he was also Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the University.

Then Kierans served 1960-1963 as a chairman of the Stock Exchange of Montreal as well as the stock exchange in Canada, the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Member of Parliament and Minister in Quebec and Canada

His political career began Kierans in his home province of Quebec when he was a candidate of the Liberal Party was elected on 25 September 1963 Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, and in this up to May 31, 1968 the constituency Montréal -Notre- Dame-de- Grâce represented. Shortly before he was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Lesage on August 8, 1963, Minister of tax revenues to the provincial government of Quebec and held that office until 14 May 1965. Subsequently, he was to the end of Lesage's term of office on June 16, 1966 Minister of Health.

On April 6, 1968, he applied for the followers of Lester Pearson as party leader of the Liberal Party, but finished third in the first round only eighth place in the nine-strong field of candidates. Ultimately, the former Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau in the fourth round of voting is by and was elected with 50.9 percent of the Chairman of the Liberal Party.

In the general election of June 25, 1968 Kieran was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the deputies in the lower house and took this for a legislature to the general election on 30 October 1972 constituency Duvernay.

Shortly after the election he was appointed by Prime Minister Trudeau nunmehrigen to Postmaster ( Postmaster General ) appointed to the 20th Government of Canada on July 6, 1968, holding office until 28 April 1971. Simultaneously he was from 1 April 1969 to 28 April. 1971, communications Minister.

He then in 1972 his teaching career as a Professor of Economic and Financial Sciences at McGill University back on and taught there until 1980. 1975 he became the Director of Savings and Trust Corporation ( Colombie Britannique ) and in April 1978, Advisor to the Board of SOEs Sidbec and Sidbec DOSCO. After completing his teaching at McGill University in 1980 Kieran was again President of Canadian Adhesives Ltd and 1982 also director of Kara Investments Limited. Between 1983 and 1984 he finally was also a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Due to decades of achievements as a scientist and politician Kierans was the Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Policy was appointed on 18 October 1994 an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Publications

  • Capitalism without capital: the economic implications of depreciation allowances in 1961
  • Le Canada vu par Kierans, 1967
  • Challenge of confidence: Kieran on Canada, 1967
  • Contribution of the tax system to Canada's unemployment problems and ownership, 1973
  • Report on natural resources POLLCY in Manitoba, 1973
  • Our changing Canadian confederation, 1978
  • Globalism and the nation -state, 1984
  • More jobs, better security, 1987
  • Wrong end of the rainbow: the collapse of free enterprise in Canada, co-author Walter Stewart, 1988
  • Remembering, co-author Walter Stewart, 2001
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