Léo Cadieux

Léo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux PC OC ( born May 28, 1908 in Saint- Jérôme, Quebec; † 11 May 2005) was a Canadian journalist, publisher, ambassadors and politicians of the Liberal Party.

Life

After schooling Cadieux studied economics and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce ( B.Comm. ). He then worked as a journalist and during the Second World War, 1941-1944 Co - Director of Public Relations of the armed forces, before he was a war correspondent in 1944 for appearing in Montreal newspaper La Presse. After the Second World War, he was back working as a journalist and as a publisher and in 1948 briefly mayor of Saint- Antoine des Laurentides, a small town in Quebec.

As a candidate of the Liberal Party, he was first elected elections of 18 June 1962 as a member of the House of Commons and was this as a representative of the constituency Terrebonne or after the elections of June 25, 1968 the constituency Labelle up to its mandate resignation on October 5, 1970.

Having to September 1967 was Assistant Minister of National Defence of February 1965, he was appointed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson to the Minister of National Defence in the 19th Federal Cabinet in September 1967, and included the led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau government to 20th 16. September 1970 at. During his tenure there came a realignment of Canadian defense policy to a reduction of troop deployment to Europe from 10,000 to 5,000 soldiers and to end the commitment to troop reinforcements within the NATO framework. In debates on the attitude of the government to the so-called balance of terror Cadieux argued a support of this MAD doctrine in mind. Finally, in his tenure was the reorganization of the Canadian Emergency Measures Organization, the national Civil Protection Agency.

The minister and his deputy's mandate laid down Cadieux, after he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in France on 24 July 1970 and this position held until 1975. For his service as a minister and ambassador in 1974, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.