Mitchell Sharp

Mitchell William Sharp, PC, CC ( born May 11, 1911 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, † March 19, 2004 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a Canadian politician.

Biography

Sharp began his political career in the early 1960s as Lester Pearson asked him to participate in his campaign team of the Liberal Party of Canada. In the elections of 8 April 1963, he was elected to represent the constituency of Toronto - Eglinton on the Members of the lower house, where he remained until 1978.

After the electoral victory of the Liberal Party Prime Minister Pearson appointed him on 22 April 1963 as Federal Minister for Industry and Trade in the government. He held until 1966 this office. Between 1965 and 1968 he was also Minister of Finance. Under the successor Pearson as prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, he was finally April 1968 to July 1974 the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs. In his tenure as Foreign Minister, there was a series of changes in foreign policy: relations with the People 's Republic of China were expanded relations with the United States were redesigned, the military commitments to NATO were cut in half and started new dialogues with Europe and Japan.

In 1974, he left federal politics and was instead commission the Northern Pipeline Agency. In addition, he was 1976-1986 Vice Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (TC ), a company with over 300 members from Europe, North America and Japan with the aim of improving collaboration among these regions. He was also Deputy Chairman in 1984 a task force on conflicts of interest, which published a report on the ethical behavior in public service.

In 1993 he was at the age of 82 Personal Advisor to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in the context of a symbolic one dollar annual salary Treaty and remained its consultant until the end of Chrétien's term of office on 11 December 2003.

For his services he was awarded the Order of Canada.