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| Affiliation | Liberal |
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| Name | Mauril Bélanger |
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Ottawa, Ontario , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://www.mauril.ca |
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June 15, 1955
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| Died | August 16, 2016
(61 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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| Info | First elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Vanier in a by-election on February 13 1995, Mauril Bélanger was re-elected in the 1997, 2000 and 2004 general elections.
On July 20, 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed Mr. Bélanger Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and Associate Minister of National Defence.
On May 17th 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin asked him to assume additional duties as Minister for Internal Trade.
He was first appointed as Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Chief Government Whip in December 2003. And in July 1998, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. He held this position until August 2000.
He has chaired the Standing Committee on Official Languages and co-chaired the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Group. He has also served as member of the Standing Committees on Industry, Citizenship and Immigration, Canadian Heritage, and of the joint Senate and House of Commons special committees studying bilateral constitutional amendments for Newfoundland and Quebec. He was also a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Urban Issues.
Prior to entering politics, Mr. Bélanger held various positions in the public and private sectors. In the early 1980s he was an assistant to the late Right Honourable Jean-Luc Pepin, who was then Minister of Transport; afterwards, he worked as a financial advisor and in the early 1990s, was Chief of Staff for the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.
A native of Mattawa, Ontario, Mauril Bélanger and his wife Catherine reside in Ottawa. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, where he served as President of the Students’ Federation.
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