Léo Cadieux

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The Hon. Léo Cadieux
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Terrebonne
In office 1962–1968
Preceded by	Marcel Deschambault
Succeeded by	Joseph-Roland Comtois
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Labelle
In office 1968–1970
Preceded by	Gaston Clermont
Succeeded by	Maurice Dupras
Personal details
Born	Joseph Alphonse Léo Cadieux (1908-05-28)May 28, 1908 Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
Died	May 11, 2005(2005-05-11) (aged 96)
Political party	Liberal

Joseph Alphonse Léo Cadieux, PC OC (May 28, 1908 – May 11, 2005) was a Canadian politician.

A newspaper journalist and publisher who was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Cadieux was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Quebec, Quebec in the 1962 election.

In 1965, he was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as Associate Minister of National Defence. In 1967, he was promoted to Minister of National Defence, and remained in that position under Pearson and then Pierre Trudeau until he retired from politics in 1970.

On his retirement from Parliament, he was appointed Canada's Ambassador to France. He remained Canada's envoy until 1975.

During Cadieux's tenure as Defence Minister, Canada cut its troop commitment to Europe from 10,000 to 5,000 troops and ended Canada's commitment to send re-enforcements to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Central Front following a review of Canadian defence priorities. In Cabinet debates on Canada's attitude towards nuclear deterrence, Cadieux argued in support of the doctrine. He also oversaw the reorganization of the Canadian Emergency Measures Organization, Canada's civil defence agency.

In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Ministers of Militia and Defence (1867–1923)	Cartier Langevin (acting) McDonald Ross Vail Jones Masson Campbell Caron Bowell Patterson Dickey Bowell Desjardins Tisdale Borden Hughes Kemp Mewburn Calder (acting) Guthrie G. Graham

Ministers of National Defence (1923–)	G. Graham E. Macdonald Guthrie Robb (acting) Ralston Sutherland Stirling Mackenzie Rogers Power (acting) Ralston McNaughton Abbott Claxton Campney Pearkes Harkness Churchill Hellyer Cadieux Drury (acting) D. Macdonald Benson Dubé (acting) Drury (acting) Richardson Danson McKinnon Lamontagne Blais Coates Clark (acting) Nielsen Beatty McKnight Masse Campbell Siddon Collenette Young Eggleton McCallum Pratt B. Graham O'Connor MacKay Nicholson

Associate Ministers of National Defence (1953–2006)	Power Campney Hellyer Sévigny Cardin Cadieux Andre Dick Collins Guarnieri Bélanger

Ministers of the Naval Service (1910–1922)	Brodeur Lemieux Hazen Ballantyne G. Graham

World War I	Ministers of the Overseas Military Forces (1916–1920) Perley Kemp

World War II	Ministers of National Defence for Air (1940–1946) Power Macdonald (acting) Gibson Ministers of National Defence for Naval Services (1940–1946) Macdonald Abbott Ministers of National War Services (1940–1948) Gardiner Thorson Laflèche McCann

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Paul André Beaulieu	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France 1970-1975	Succeeded by Hon. Gérard Pelletier

Persondata
Name	Cadieux, Leo
Alternative names
Short description	Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Date of birth	May 28, 1908
Place of birth	Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada
Date of death	May 11, 2005
Place of death

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