Gérard Pelletier

The Honourable Gérard Pelletier PC, CC

Member of the Canadian Parliament for Hochelaga
In office 1965 – 1975
Preceded by	Raymond Eudes
Succeeded by	Jacques Lavoie
Personal details
Born	(1919-06-21)June 21, 1919 Montreal, Quebec
Died	June 22, 1997(1997-06-22) (aged 78)
Political party	Liberal
Occupation	Journalist, Politician

Gérard Pelletier, PC, CC (June 21, 1919 – June 22, 1997) was a Canadian journalist and politician.

Pelletier initially worked as a journalist for Le Devoir, a French-language newspaper in Montreal, Quebec. In 1961 he became editor-in-chief of the Montreal daily and North America's largest French circulating newspaper, La Presse. Pelletier, with other French-Canadian intellectuals, Pierre Elliott Trudeau included, founded the journal Cité Libre. First elected to Parliament in 1965, he served as a member of the cabinet of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Pelletier met Trudeau while studying in France and worked with him and Jean Marchand during the Asbestos Strike of 1949 in Quebec. Dubbed the "Three Wise Men" in English and Les trois colombes (The three doves) in French, they entered politics at the same time in the federal election of 1965. The trio was recruited by Liberal prime minister Lester Pearson to help derail the rising Quebec separatist movement.

He served in various cabinet posts in the Trudeau government until 1975 (Secretary of State: 1968-1973, Minister of Communications: 1973-5), when he left the Liberal caucus and became ambassador to France and then ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1984). In 1978 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

External links

Gérard Pelletier – Parliament of Canada biography

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Raymond Eudes	Member of Parliament for Hochelaga 1965–1975	Succeeded by Jacques Lavoie
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Joseph Alphonse Léo Cadieux	Canadian Ambassador to France 1975–1981	Succeeded by Michel Dupuy
Preceded by Michel Dupuy	Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations 1981–1984	Succeeded by Stephen Lewis

Secretaries of State of Canada

Langevin Aikins Christie Scott Aikins O'Connor Mousseau Chapleau Patterson Costigan Dickey Montague Ouimet (acting) Daly (acting) Tupper Scott Murphy Roche Coderre Blondin Patenaude Sévigny (acting) Meighen Burrell Sifton Drayton (acting) Monty Copp Foster Murphy (acting) Lapointe Perley Rinfret Cahan Rinfret Lapointe Casgrain McLarty Martin Gibson Bradley Pickersgill Pinard Fairclough Courtemanche Balcer Dorion Balcer Halpenny Pickersgill Lamontagne LaMarsh Connolly Marchand Pelletier Faulkner Roberts MacDonald Fox Regan Joyal McLean B. Bouchard Crombie L. Bouchard Weiner de Cotret Landry¹

¹The department was eliminated in 1993 when the government was reorganized. The position of Secretary of State for Canada was not legally eliminated until 1996 when its remaining responsibilities were assigned to other cabinet positions and departments, particularly the newly created position of Minister of Canadian Heritage.

Ministers of Communications

Kierans Côté Pelletier Stanbury Pelletier Juneau Lang Sauvé D. MacDonald Fox Lumley Masse Bouchard Masse F. MacDonald Murray Masse Beatty Landry Dupuy Copps Robillard Copps¹

¹The offices of Minister of Communications, and Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship were abolished and the office of Minister of Canadian Heritage came in force July 12, 1996.

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