Maurice Lamontagne

Maurice Lamontagne PC FRSC FRSA ( born September 7, 1917 in Mont -Joli, Quebec, † 12 June 1983) was a Canadian economist, university professor and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, the total of more than 20 years a Member of the House of Commons and Member of the Senate as well as some time was minister.

Life

After schooling Lamontagne holds a degree in Social Sciences at Laval University and economics at Harvard University, graduating each with a Master of Science ( M.Sc.). He then took over in 1943 a professor of economics at Laval University, and taught there until 1954. Having worked for a government agency 1954-1957, he taught since 1957 as a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and was for his services both Fellow the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Arts.

In the general election of March 31, 1958 and June 18, 1962, he ran for the Liberal Party in Quebec East constituency in each case without success for a parliamentary seat. The datauf following elections of 8 April 1963, he was elected as a deputy in the lower house and represented in this up to his mandate resignation on April 6, 1967 the constituency Outremont -Saint -Jean.

On April 22, 1963, Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Lamontagne, whose adviser he was 1958-1963, appointed as President of the Privy Council in the 19th Canadian Cabinet. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was on March 3, 1964 Secretary of State for Canada, before he resigned from the post on December 17, 1965 after the conservative opposition had accused him and the then Postmaster General René Tremblay wrongly, in the so-called " furniture " scandal to have been involved in the bankruptcy of the Montreal company Selkind Brothers. Prime Minister Pearson took with regret the resignation, as the political standing was practically destroyed.

After retiring from the House of Commons he was on 6 April 1967, a proposal by Prime Minister Pearson Member of the Senate and represented there until his Todam June 12, 1983 the Senate District Inkerman.

During his long Senate membership he was from May 1967 to April 1968, September 1969 and September 1972 and again between January 1973 and October 1977 Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Science Policy, and at the same time on September 12, 1968 to September 1, 1972, and again from January 4 1973 to 9 May 1974 Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. In addition, he served from October 23, 1969 October 7, bi first time in 1970 as Co - Chairman of the Joint Special Committee of the Parliament of Canada for the Canadian Constitution. Subsequently, he was between 30 September 1974 and October 12, 1976 Vice - chairman of this committee and again from 18 October 1977 until October 10, 1978 Co - Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution.

His honor, the Maurice Lamontagne Institute opened in 1987 and named in Mont -Joli, Rimouski, one to the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans belonging Oceanographic Marine Biology Institute.

Publications

  • Étude sur le plan Marsh; présenté au Conseil supérieur du travail, 1943
  • Le chomage dans l' apres - guerre, Quebec 1944
  • Les problèmes économiques de la ville de Québec: le passé, le présent, l' avenir, Quebec in 1946?
  • Le Fédéralisme canadien: évolution et problèmes, Quebec 1954
  • The economic and social Consequences of affluence and change, 1967
  • La société d' Abondance et de techno structure. Fédération des caisses populaires Desjardins, 11e congrès, 1970, Montreal 1970
  • Le Canada à l' ère exponential, Montreal 1972
  • Etude critique sur la nouvelle entente Québec -Canada: manuscrits, 1980
  • La réponse au Livre blanc du PQ: le Referendum PIEGE, Montreal 1980
  • Monetary policy on trial, Ottawa 1981
  • The double deal: a response to the Parti québécois white paper and referendum question, Montreal 1980
  • Business cycles in Canada: the postwar experience and policy directions, Toronto 1984
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