Marc Lalonde
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Marc Lalonde, PC , OC, QC, LLL, MA (born July 26, 1929) is a retired Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.
Marc Lalonde obtained a Master of Laws degree from the Université de Montréal, a Master's degree from Oxford University, and a Diplôme d'études supérieures en droit (D.E.S.D) from the University of Ottawa.
In 1959, he worked in Ottawa as a special advisor to Progressive Conservative Justice Minister E. Davie Fulton. He went to Montreal to practice law until 1967 when he returned to Ottawa to work as an advisor in the Prime Minister's Office under Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Lalonde remained when Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada in 1968, serving as Principal Secretary.
At Trudeau's urging, he ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 election. Elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Outremont, Lalonde immediately joined the Cabinet as Minister of National Health and Welfare.
A staunch federalist, he was also one of Trudeau's chief advisors on the situation in Quebec, taking the position of Minister of State on federal-provincial relations in the wake of the Parti Québécois' victory in the 1976 Quebec provincial election.
Lalonde served as Minister of Justice from 1978 until the Liberal government's defeat in the 1979 election.
When the Liberals returned to power in the 1980 election, Lalonde became Minister of Energy and instituted the National Energy Program which became intensely unpopular in Alberta, as it adversely affected the Alberta oil industry. From 1982 until 1984, he served as Minister of Finance, instituting a limited program of informal wage and price controls in an effort to reduce inflation.
Lalonde remained Finance Minister when John Napier Turner succeeded Trudeau as Prime Minister in 1984, but did not run in the 1984 election.
In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
In the 1990s, he served as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, and has also represented Canada in various trade disputes. He is a practising lawyer with the firm of Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montreal.
He returned to the politic arena in 2005 when Prime Minister Paul Martin named him co-president of the Liberal Party's electoral campaign in Québec for the 39th Canadian federal election. Brigitte Legault, the president of the Young Liberals of Canada (Québec), served as the other co-president.
| Preceded by: Aurélien Nöel, Liberal |
Member of Parliament for Outremont 1972 - 1984 |
Succeeded by: Lucie Pépin, Liberal |
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| Galt | Rose | Hincks | Tilley | Cartwright | Tilley | McLelan | Tupper | Foster | Fielding | White | Drayton | Fielding | Robb | Bennett | Robb | Dunning | Bennett | Rhodes | Dunning | Ralston | Ilsley | Abbott | Harris | Fleming | Nowlan | Gordon | Sharp | Benson | Turner | Macdonald | Chrétien | Crosbie | MacEachen | Lalonde | Wilson | Mazankowski | Loiselle | Martin | Manley | Goodale | Flaherty | ||
[edit] See also
A new perspective on the health of Canadians, best known as The LaLonde Report
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Categories: Members of the 23rd Ministry in Canada | Members of the 22nd Ministry in Canada | 1929 births | Living people | Canadian lawyers | Canadian Ministers of Finance | Liberal Party of Canada MPs | Members of the 20th Ministry in Canada | Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Quebec | Officers of the Order of Canada | Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada | Quebec lieutenants
