Leonard Marchand

Leonard " Len " Stephen Marchand PC CM ( born November 16, 1933, Vernon, British Columbia ) is a Canadian agricultural scientist and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, which was more than 24 years a Member of the House of Commons and Member of the Senate and briefly Minister as a whole.

Life

After schooling Marchand first completed a study of Agricultural Sciences, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. A postgraduate degree in finance, he finished 1964 at the University of Idaho with a Master of Science in Finance (MSF ) with a thesis on An ecological study of sagebrush in interior British Columbia and then worked as an agronomist.

In the general election on June 25, 1968 Marchand was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the deputies in the lower house, where he the constituency of Kamloops- Cariboo represented up to the elections on 22 May 1979 where in 1979 he in the constituency Kamloops- Shuswap candidate.

In December 1972 he took over as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development his first government post and kept this short interruption until May 1974 before he was until September 1975 Parliamentary Secretary of the Environment Minister from September 1974. He also served from 30 September 1974 to 12 October 1976 as Chairman of the Standing House of Commons Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Later he held between 14 September 1976, and September 15, 1977, the Minister of State for Small Business and in connection to the April 1, 1979 the State Minister for the Environment.

Most recently, he was finally appointed on 2 April 1979 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the Environment Minister in the 20th Government of Canada and has held this ministerial However, only two months until the end of Trudeau's term of office on June 3, 1979.

On June 29, 1984 Marchand was on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau member of the Senate and represented in this until reaching the constitutional age limit of 75 years on 1 March 1998 the Senate District Kamloops- Cariboo.

During his membership in the Senate Marchand, who is himself a member of the Okanagan people of British Columbia, was on April 3, 1989 to September 8, 1993 and then again from 27 February 1996 to April 27, 1997 Chairman and meantime of 17. January 1994 to 2 February 1996, Vice - Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal.

For his many years of service in politics, and in particular for the Aboriginal Marchand was on 15 April 1999 Member of the Order of Canada.

Publications

  • An ecological study of sagebrush in interior British Columbia, Thesis ( MS) - University of Idaho 1964
  • Grassland ranges in the southern interior of British Columbia, co-author Alastair McLean, Ottawa 1968
  • Aboriginal electoral reform: a discussion paper, 1993
  • Breaking trail, autobiography, co-author Matt Hughes, Prince George 2000
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