Marcel Masse

1988

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 1936.05.27 - St-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, Canada.

OCCUPATION: Teacher. Engineering Firm Office Administrator.

POLITICAL PARTY:
Parti Québécois (PQ): 1994-.
Progressive Conservative (PC) / Parti Progressiste-Conservateur: 1973-1993.
Independent: 1971-1973.
Union Nationale (l'Union nationale): 1966-1971.

HOUSE OF COMMONS:
1993 - Did not seek re-election.
1988.11.21 - Frontenac, Quebec - Re-Elected.
1984.09.04 - Frontenac, Quebec - Elected.
1980.02.18 - Labelle, Quebec - Defeated.
1974.07.08 - Labelle, Quebec - Defeated.

SENIOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:
Minister of National Defence (1991.04.21 - 1993.01.03).
Minister of Communications (1989.01.30 - 1991.04.20).
Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources (1986.06.30 - 1989.01.29).
Minister of Communications (1984.09.17 - 1985.09.25 and 1985.11.30 - 1986.06.29).

QUEBEC NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (Député):
1973 - Did not seek re-election.
1970.04.29 - Montcalm - Re-Elected.
1966.06.05 - Montcalm - Elected.

SENIOR QUEBEC PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT:
President, Quebec National Assembly Archive (2000-2006).
Chair, Quebec Cultural Commission (1997-2000).
Quebec Delegate-General to France (1996-1997).
President, Conseil de la langue française du Québec (1985).
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (1969.07.23 - 1970.05.12).
Minister of Planning and Development (1968.10.10 - 1970.05.12).
Minister of State for Public Functions (1967.12.20 - 1968.10.10).
Minister of State for Education (1966.06.16 - 1967.12.20).

PARTY LEADERSHIP:
Candidate for Leader, l'Union Nationale (June 1971). Gabriel Loubier defeated Masse for Leader by a 21-vote margin. Masse resigned from the party five months later.

MISCELLANEOUS:
Became the youngest Cabinet Minister in the history of Quebec when he was appointed in 1966 at at age 30 by Premier Daniel Johnson.

Resigned from federal Cabinet in September 1985 during an RCMP investigation of alleged overspending during his 1984 election campaign. Subsequently returned to Cabinet on November 1985 after being cleared of any wrongdoing.

WEBSITES: Assemblée nationale du Québec: Marcel Masse and l'Ordre national du Québec: Marcel Masse