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Canadian politician
Marcel Masse
PC
OC
KC
(born June 23, 1940) is a
Canadian
politician
and
civil servant
.
Biography
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Masse was born in
Montreal
, Quebec in 1940 and graduated from
McGill University
and
Pembroke College, Oxford
(as
Rhodes Scholar
in 1963). He served as
Clerk of the Privy Council
in 1979 during the government of
Prime Minister
Joe Clark
. In his distinguished public service career, he also served as President of the
Canadian International Development Agency
, on two occasions; was undersecretary for external affairs; and represented Canada as its executive director at the
International Monetary Fund
,
World Bank
and
Inter-American Development Bank
.
Masse's career in elected politics began when he ran as a candidate for
Jean Chretien
's
Liberal Party
in the
1993 federal election
. He was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada
as
Member of Parliament
for
Hull?Aylmer
. The incumbent,
Gilles Rocheleau
, had joined the sovereigntist
Bloc Quebecois
in 1990 after the
Meech Lake Accord
failed. However, Rocheleau found himself running as a sovereigntist in a strongly federalist riding. Masse routed him by almost 13,700 votes, reverting the seat to its traditional status as a Liberal stronghold; before Rocheleau's brief stint in the Bloc, the riding had been in Liberal hands without interruption since its creation in 1914.
Following the election, he was appointed to the
Canadian Cabinet
as
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
,
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
and Minister responsible for
Public Service
Renewal.
In 1996, a
Cabinet shuffle
moved him to the positions of
President of the Treasury Board
and
Minister responsible for Infrastructure
.
Masse was re-elected in the
1997 election
, but retired from Cabinet in 1999 and resigned his seat in the House of Commons.
In 1985, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada
.
After the
Liberal Party of Canada
's leadership convention in December 2006 he was asked to join the transition team of newly elected leader
Stephane Dion
. He served as Dion's Principal Secretary in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition for a period after Dion's selection as leader. He later left the post for health reasons.
Electoral record
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1997 Canadian federal election
:
Hull?Aylmer
|
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
Expenditures
|
|
Liberal
|
Marcel Masse
|
25,835
|
54.11
|
$47,001
|
|
Bloc Quebecois
|
Ginette Tetreault
|
9,922
|
20.78
|
$31,255
|
|
Progressive Conservative
|
Stephane Rondeau
|
8,461
|
17.72
|
$7,680
|
|
New Democratic
|
Peter Piening
|
1,317
|
2.76
|
$665
|
|
Reform
|
Camille Fortin
|
935
|
1.96
|
$1,308
|
|
Green
|
Gail Walker
|
586
|
1.23
|
$116
|
|
Christian Heritage
|
Ron Gray
|
275
|
0.58
|
$1,320
|
|
Natural Law
|
Robert Mayer
|
266
|
0.56
|
$0
|
|
Marxist?Leninist
|
Pierre Soubliere
|
151
|
0.32
|
$0
|
Total valid votes/expense limit
|
47,748
|
100.00
|
$61,239
|
Total rejected ballots
|
1,114
|
Turnout
|
48,862
|
70.44
|
Electors on the lists
|
69,366
|
Sources:
Official Results, Elections Canada
and
Financial Returns, Elections Canada
.
|
1993 Canadian federal election
:
Hull?Aylmer
|
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
|
Expenditures
|
|
Liberal
|
Marcel Masse
|
27,988
|
53.26
|
–
|
$54,753
|
|
Bloc Quebecois
|
Gilles Rocheleau
|
14,293
|
27.20
|
|
$38,257
|
|
Non-Affiliated
|
Tony Cannavino
|
4,583
|
8.72
|
|
$53,805
|
|
Progressive Conservative
|
Pierre Chenier
|
3,244
|
6.17
|
|
$49,356
|
|
New Democratic Party
|
Francine Bourque
|
1,346
|
2.56
|
|
$12,759
|
|
Green
|
George Halpern
|
468
|
0.89
|
|
$473
|
|
Natural Law
|
Robert Mayer
|
401
|
0.76
|
|
$225
|
|
Marxist-Leninist
|
Francoise Roy
|
162
|
0.31
|
|
$80
|
|
Abolitionist
|
Linda Dubois
|
63
|
0.12
|
|
$0
|
Total valid votes/expense limit
|
52,548
|
100.00
|
–
|
$56,938
|
Total rejected ballots
|
873
|
Turnout
|
53,421
|
76.95
|
Electors on the lists
|
69,419
|
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from
official contributions and expenses
provided by
Elections Canada
.
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External links
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Ministers of State (Federal-Provincial Relations) (1977?91)
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Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs (1991?93)
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Minister responsible for Federal-Provincial Relations (1993)
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Ministers of Intergovernmental Affairs
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