Yvon Dupuis

Yvon Dupuis PC ( born October 11, 1926 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was for several years a Member of the House of Commons and Minister without portfolio for some time.

Life

Dupuis, whose father Hector Dupuis also was a member of the Lower House 1950-1958, worked after visiting the Collège de Varennes, the Collège de Longueuil and the École normale Jacques -Cartier in Montreal as an insurance agent as well as the owner of two music stores.

His political career began when he Dupuis on 16 July 1952 as the candidate of the Parti libéral du Québec was elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and in this constituency Montréal- Sainte -Marie took until June 19, 1956.

In the general election on 10 June 1957, he ran as an independent Liberal, unsuccessfully, in the constituency of Saint -Jean- Iberville - Napierville for a seat in the House of Commons, and was used in the subsequent elections on 31 March 1958 in this constituency for the Liberal Party to elected Members of the house of Commons. He belonged to the House of Commons until his defeat in the general election on November 8, 1965.

On 14 May 1963 he took his first government post and was up to February 2, 1964 Parliamentary Secretary to the Permanent Secretary for Canada. Following Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed him on 3 February 1964 as Minister without Portfolio in the 19th Canadian Cabinet. Nearly a year later had to Dupuis on January 21, 1965 to resign from his ministerial office, however, after he was accused that he had exercised undue influence on a race track in the project belonging to his constituency Saint- Luc.

After retiring from the House, he went back to his activities in the private sector and was from 1965 to 1972 co-founder and president of the Societé Thémis Multifactum as well as founder of the magazine Défi.

In the early 1970s he began again in the politics of Quebec province to get involved and was on March 4, 1973 president of the party Ralliement créditiste du Québec. In the elections to the National Assembly on 29 October 1973 he was a candidate for this constituency in Saint- Jean, but failed to reach the provincial parliament, while two candidates of the party were elected to the National Assembly. A few months later he left the Ralliement créditiste du Québec and instead founded on 5 May 1974, the Parti presidentiel, which on October 21, 1974 but broke up again.

Subsequently, he worked as a presenter on various radio stations such as CKVL, CKAC and CHLT worked as well as President of Publivox. In addition, he founded in 1981, the travel agency Agence de Voyages Yvon Dupuis Inc., which he ran until 2003, and was president of the travel agent Tours Expert since 1988. In 2003 he published his autobiography Des souvenirs ... et des regrets aussi.