Pierre H. Vincent

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Pierre H. Vincent, PC (born April 2, 1955 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a tax lawyer and former Canadian politician.

Member of Parliament

Vincent was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 electoral landslide that brought Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party to power. Vincent, the PC Member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue from 1984 until 1985; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1993, and was also Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1991 to 1993.

Cabinet member

In January 1993, Vincent was elevated to Prime Minister Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister, she promoted Vincent to Minister of the Environment. His appointment was criticized as the appointment of a relative neophyte to the position was seen as a message by Campbell that the Environment was no longer considered a senior portfolio.

He was sworn of the Privy Council on January 5, 1993.^[1]

Both Vincent and the Campbell government were defeated in the 1993 federal election and Vincent returned to private life.

Return in politics

Both Vincent and former colleague Suzanne Duplessis managed the Conservative campaign in Quebec in the 2008 federal election.^[2]

Footnotes

External links

Pierre H. Vincent – Parliament of Canada biography

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Claude Lajoie (Liberal)	Member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières 1984–1993	Succeeded by Yves Rocheleau (BQ)
25th Ministry – Cabinet of Kim Campbell
Cabinet Post (1)
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Jean Charest	Minister of the Environment 1993	Sheila Copps
24th Ministry – Cabinet of Brian Mulroney
Cabinet Post (1)
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Pierre Blais	Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs 1993	Jean Charest

v t e Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1984-1993)

Perrin Beatty Suzanne Blais-Grenier Pierre Cadieux Kim Campbell Jean Charest Joe Clark Robert Coates John Crosbie Dufferin Roblin Roch La Salle Elmer MacKay Flora MacDonald Don Mazankowski Thomas Michael McMillan Gerald Merrithew Charles Mayer Brian Mulroney Lowell Murray Bernard Valcourt Pierre H. Vincent Michael Wilson

v t e Ministers of the Environment

Ministers of the Environment (1971-1976)¹	Davis Sauvé LeBlanc (acting) J. Marchand LeBlanc (acting)

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

Minister of State (Environment) (1977-1979)	L. Marchand

Ministers of the Environment (1979-)	L. Marchand Fraser Roberts Caccia Blais-Grenier McMillan Bouchard Oberle (acting) de Cotret Charest Vincent Copps Marchi Stewart Anderson Dion Ambrose Baird Prentice Baird Kent Aglukkaq

¹From 1971 to 1976 the Minister of the Environment was also the Minister of Fisheries.

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Name	Vincent, Pierre
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Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	April 2, 1955
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