Gilles Loiselle PC OQ (20 May 1929 – 29 September 2022) was a Canadian politician.
Gilles Loiselle | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 25 June 1993 – 3 November 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | Kim Campbell |
| Preceded by | Don Mazankowski |
| Succeeded by | Paul Martin |
| President of the Treasury Board | |
| In office 20 September 1990 – 24 June 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | Brian Mulroney |
| Preceded by | Robert de Cotret |
| Succeeded by | Jim Edwards |
| Member of Parliament for Langelier | |
| In office 21 November 1988 – 24 October 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Michel Côté |
| Succeeded by | Christiane Gagnon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 May 1929 Ville-Marie, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 29 September 2022 (aged 93) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse |
Lorraine Benoît (m. 1962) |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation |
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Loiselle was born in Ville-Marie, Quebec on 20 May 1929. He worked as the correspondent for CBC News in Paris for a decade before being appointed the government of Quebec's agent-general in the United Kingdom in 1977.[2] He represented Quebec to the British government when the federal government of Canada was negotiating the Patriation of the Constitution of Canada from Britain in the 1980s.
After being elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1988 federal election, Loiselle joined the cabinet of Brian Mulroney. In 1990, he was elevated to the post of President of the Treasury Board and, in 1993, he served as Minister of Finance in the short-lived government of Kim Campbell.
Loiselle, a Progressive Conservative, was defeated in the 1993 election. The Tories were cut down to two seats, and Loiselle himself fell to third place in the vote count in his constituency.
He was named to the National Order of Quebec in 2011.[3]
Electoral record
edit| 1988 Canadian federal election: Langelier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilles Loiselle | 24,555 | 46.65 | |||||
| Liberal | Marielle Guay-Migneault | 14,843 | 28.20 | |||||
| New Democratic | Pauline Gingras | 10,586 | 20.11 | |||||
| Green | Gilles Fontaine | 1,931 | 3.67 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | France Tremblay | 402 | 0.76 | |||||
| Independent | Alexandre Roy | 319 | 0.61 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,636 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,270 | |||||||
| Turnout | 53,906 | 72.54 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 74,312 | |||||||
| 1993 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 27,788 | 53.7 | |||||
| Liberal | Jean Pelletier | 13,965 | 27.0 | -1.2 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilles Loiselle | 7,077 | 13.7 | -33.0 | ||||
| New Democratic | Majella Desmeules | 1,067 | 2.1 | -18.0 | ||||
| Natural Law | Danielle Charland | 883 | 1.7 | |||||
| Green | Richard Domm | 786 | 1.5 | -2.1 | ||||
| Abolitionist | Ernst Fernandez | 158 | 0.3 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 51,724 | 100.0 | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Canadian Parliamentary Guide
- ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Gilles Loiselle". Retrieved 8 October 2022. (in French)
- ^ L’ancien ministre fédéral des Finances Gilles Loiselle est décédé (in French)
- ^ "Gilles Loiselle | Outremont | Services Commémoratifs Mont-Royal / Mount-Royal Commemorative Services".
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