Léo Cadieux
Associate Minister of National Defence | |
|---|---|
| In office 15 February 1965 – 18 September 1967 | |
| Prime Minister | Lester B. Pearson |
| Preceded by | Lucien Cardin |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Member of Parliament for Labelle | |
| In office 25 June 1968 – 5 October 1970 | |
| Preceded by | Gaston Clermont |
| Succeeded by | Maurice Dupras |
| Member of Parliament for Terrebonne | |
| In office 18 June 1962 – 24 June 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Marcel Deschambault |
| Succeeded by | Joseph-Roland Comtois |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Alphonse Léo Cadieux 28 May 1908 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
Monique Plante (m. 1961) |
| Children | 1 |
Joseph Alphonse Léo Cadieux PC OC (28 May 1908 – 11 May 2005) was a Canadian politician.
A newspaper journalist and publisher who was born in
Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Cadieux was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Quebec in the 1962 election
.
In 1965, he was appointed to the
Associate Minister of National Defence. In 1967, he was promoted to Minister of National Defence (and the first Francophone to hold the post), and remained in that position under Pearson and then Pierre Trudeau
until he retired from politics in 1970.
On his retirement from Parliament, he was appointed Canada's Ambassador to France. He remained Canada's envoy until 1975.
During Cadieux's tenure as Defence Minister, Canada cut its troop commitment to
civil defence
agency.
In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Electoral record
| 1965 Canadian federal election: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Léo Cadieux | 16,806 | 44.2 | -1.8 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | André Fauteux | 10,417 | 27.4 | +15.8 | ||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Jean-Marc Fontaine | 5,412 | 14.2 | -18.7 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Maurice Sénécal | 5,384 | 14.2 | +4.7 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 38,019 | 100.0 | ||||||
Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.
| 1963 Canadian federal election: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Léo Cadieux | 19,015 | 46.0 | +6.8 | ||||
| Social Credit | Hubert Murray | 13,618 | 33.0 | +9.6 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Walker | 4,798 | 11.6 | -16.5 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gérard Gagnon | 3,895 | 9.4 | +0.1 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 41,326 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1962 Canadian federal election: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Léo Cadieux | 15,547 | 39.2 | -9.4 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Marcel Deschambault | 11,155 | 28.1 | -23.3 | ||||
| Social Credit | Lucien Bachand | 9,269 | 23.4 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jean Philip | 3,680 | 9.3 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 39,651 | 100.0 | ||||||
