Joseph-Philippe Guay
St. Boniface | |
|---|---|
| In office 1968–1978 | |
| Preceded by | Roger Teillet |
| Succeeded by | Jack Hare |
| Senator for St. Boniface, Manitoba | |
| In office 1978–1990 | |
| Appointed by | Pierre Trudeau |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 4, 1915 St-Vital, Manitoba |
| Died | July 30, 2001 (aged 85) |
| Political party | Liberal |
Joseph-Philippe Guay, PC (October 4, 1915 – July 30, 2001) was a Canadian parliamentarian, serving as a member of the Liberal Party.
Born in
1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention.[1]
He was returned in the general election, and was re-elected in 1972 and 1974.
He held numerous parliamentary functions including:
Minister of National Revenue
(1977–1978).
In 1978, he was appointed to the
senatorial division
of St. Boniface, Manitoba. He retired on his 75th birthday in 1990.
In 1957, he was knighted as a member of the
Order of Saint Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XII
.
Electoral history
| 1974 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Joseph-Philippe Guay | 21,853 | 42.6 | -1.9 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jack Hare | 18,604 | 36.2 | +10.1 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jim Garwood | 10,364 | 20.2 | -7.5 | ||||
| Social Credit | Thomas L. Cruickshank | 536 | 1.0 | -0.2 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 51,357 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1972 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Joseph-Philippe Guay | 22,200 | 44.4 | -7.3 | ||||
| New Democratic | Joseph F. Sherwood | 13,857 | 27.7 | +0.6 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Hillcoff | 13,033 | 26.1 | +7.2 | ||||
| Social Credit | Gilles J. Ouellet | 643 | 1.3 | -0.9 | ||||
| Independent | Russ Maley | 241 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 49,974 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1968 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Joseph-Philippe Guay | 22,032 | 51.7 | +9.9 | ||||
| New Democratic | Harry Shafransky | 11,566 | 27.2 | +0.4 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Vaughan L. Baird | 8,048 | 18.9 | -12.6 | ||||
| Social Credit | Georges Forest | 949 | 2.2 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 42,595 | 100.0 | ||||||
References
- ^ The final vote was: Guay 1341, Teillet 1244. See "Liberals' only Prairie MP loses riding nomination", Toronto Star, May 23, 1968, p. 1. The nomination contest is mentioned in Ian Stewart, Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 2009, p. 9.