Pierre H. Vincent

The Honourable
Pierre H. Vincent
PC
Minister of the Environment
In office
June 25, 1993 – November 3, 1993
Governor GeneralRoméo LeBlanc
Prime MinisterKim Campbell
Preceded byJean Charest
Succeeded bySheila Copps
Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
In office
January 4, 1993 – June 24, 1993
Governor GeneralRoméo LeBlanc
Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
Preceded byPierre Blais
Succeeded byJean Charest as Minister of Industry
Member of Parliament
for Trois-Rivières
In office
September 4, 1984 – October 24, 1993
Preceded byClaude Lajoie
Succeeded byYves Rocheleau
Personal details
Born (1955-04-02) April 2, 1955
Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Political partyProgressive Conservative

Pierre H. Vincent, PC (born April 2, 1955 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a Canadian tax lawyer and former politician.

Member of Parliament

Vincent was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 electoral landslide that brought Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party to power. Vincent, the PC Member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue from 1984 until 1985; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1993, and was also Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1991 to 1993.

Cabinet member

In January 1993, Vincent was elevated to Prime Minister Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister, she promoted Vincent to Minister of the Environment.

He was sworn of the Privy Council on January 5, 1993.[1]

Both Vincent and the Campbell government were defeated in the 1993 federal election and Vincent returned to private life.

Return in politics

Both Vincent and former colleague Suzanne Duplessis managed the Conservative campaign in Quebec in the 2008 federal election.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada - Information Resources - Privy Council Office". www.pco-bcp.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.
  2. ^ Harper recrute des nationalistes, Joël-Denis Bellavance, La Presse, September 4, 2008
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