Herb Breau

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The Hon. Herb Breau
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Gloucester
In office 1968–1984
Preceded by	Hédard Robichaud
Succeeded by	Roger Clinch
Personal details
Born	(1944-12-05) December 5, 1944 Haut Sheila, New Brunswick
Political party	Liberal
Cabinet	Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (June 30, 1984 - September 16, 1984)
Committees	Chair, Special Committee on the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements (1980-1983) Chair, Special Committee on North-South Relations (1980-1983)
Portfolio	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (1972-1973) Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources (1974) Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State for External Affairs (1974-1975)

Herb Breau, PC (born December 5, 1944) is a Canadian businessman and former politician.

Born in Haut-Sheila, New Brunswick, Breau was a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) representing Gloucester from the 1968 election until his defeat in the 1984 election that reduced the Liberal caucus to only 40 MPs.

Breau served as a parliamentary secretary in the 1970s. He served as chairman of the Parliamentary Task Forces on North-South Relations and on Fiscal Federalism in Canada, chairman of the Parliamentary Association of Canada-United States from 1977 to 1981, and a member of the Trilateral Commission from 1981 to 1984.

Breau was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Fisheries and Oceans when John Turner became Prime Minister of Canada in June 1984. His ministerial career ended just over two months later as a result of the election that defeated the Turner government.

He entered the private sector following the end of his political career, and has most recently been an executive at Syscan International, serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2001.

Breau served on the board of governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in the 1990s as an appointee of the federal government.

External links

Herb Breau – Parliament of Canada biography

v t e Cabinet of Prime Minister John Turner (1984)

Lloyd Axworthy Monique Bégin Jean-Jacques Blais Herb Breau Rémi Bujold Charles Caccia Bennett Campbell Jean Chrétien David Collenette Judy Erola Ralph Ferguson Francis Fox Doug Frith Herb Gray Don Johnston Serge Joyal Bob Kaplan Marc Lalonde Jean Lapierre Charles Lapointe Ed Lumley Allan MacEachen Roy MacLaren André Ouellet Gerald Regan John Roberts Bill Rompkey David Smith John Turner

v t e Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans

Ministers of Marine and Fisheries (1867–1930)¹	Mitchell Smith Pope McLelan Foster Tupper Costigan Davies Sutherland Préfontaine Laurier (acting) Brodeur Lemieux Hazen Ballantyne Lapointe Cardin Black (acting) Patenaude (acting) Cardin (acting)

Ministers of Marine (1930–1936)²	Cardin Duranleau Gendron Howe

Ministers of Fisheries (1930–1969)	Macmillan Rhodes Duranleau (acting) Stirling (acting) Ernst Michaud Bertrand Bridges Bertrand (acting) Gregg MacKinnon Mayhew Sinclair MacLean Robichaud Davis

Minister of Fisheries and Forestry (1969–1971)	Davis

Ministers of the Environment (1971–1976)³	Davis Sauvé LeBlanc (acting) Marchand LeBlanc (acting)

Ministers of State (Fisheries) (1974–1976)	LeBlanc

Minister of Fisheries and the Environment (1976–1979)	LeBlanc

Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans (1979–)	LeBlanc McGrath LeBlanc de Bané Breau Fraser Nielsen Siddon Valcourt Crosbie Reid Tobin Dingwall (acting) Mifflin Anderson Dhaliwal Thibault Regan Hearn Shea Ashfield

¹The office of Minister of Marine and Fisheries was abolished and the offices of Minister of Fisheries and Minister of Marine were created in 1930 ²The offices of Minister of Marine and Minister of Railways and Canals were abolished and the office of Minister of Transport was created in 1936 ³From 1971 to 1976 the Minister of the Environment was also the Minister of Fisheries.

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Name	Breau, Herb
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Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	December 5, 1944
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