Marcel Danis

Canadian Parliament
for Verchères
Canadian Parliament; for Verchères
	In office; September 4, 1984 – September 8, 1993
Preceded by	Bernard Loiselle
Succeeded by	Stéphane Bergeron
Personal details
Born	October 22, 1943
Political party	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Occupation	Lawyer

Marcel Danis, PC (born October 22, 1943) is a Canadian university administrator, lawyer and former politician.

Danis completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science at

Université de Paris from 1966 to 1968, and completed a Bachelor of Civil Law at the Université de Montréal in 1971. His father was a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, and his brother, Jean-Claude Danis, is a judge at the Commission des lésions professionelles

in Montreal.

He joined the faculty of Loyola College in 1968 as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and has taught since that time. He entered politics as a

Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. During Joe Clark

's leadership convention candidacy in 1983, Danis was his chief Quebec organizer.

He ran again in the

House Leader

.

In 1991, Danis was promoted to the position of Minister of Labour. He left Cabinet with Mulroney's retirement in 1993, and was not a candidate in the 1993 election. He left politics and returned to academia. He became vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia. In 1996, he became vice-rector of the university, and Secretary General in 1998. In 2005, he was named vice-president of external relations and secretary-general.^[1]

In 2013, he was hired to defend Michael Applebaum, the former mayor of Montreal, on corruption charges.^[2]

References

^ "Marcel Danis leaving the position of Vice-President, External Relations, and Secretary-General". Concordia University News and Events. June 22, 2007. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
^ "Former MP to represent Applebaum" Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. The Gazette, June 18, 2013.

External links

Marcel Danis – Parliament of Canada biography

[1] "Marcel Danis leaving the position of Vice-President, External Relations, and Secretary-General". Concordia University News and Events. June 22, 2007. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved 2009-10-17.

[2] "Former MP to represent Applebaum" Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. The Gazette, June 18, 2013.

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Ministers of Human Resources Development (1996–2005)²	Young Pettigrew Stewart Frulla Dryden
Ministers of Human Resources and Skills Development (2005–13)	Stronach Finley Solberg Finley
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Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (2015–present)	Duclos
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¹Until 1909, the office of the minister of Labour was a secondary function of the Postmaster-General of Canada. W. L. M. King was the first to hold the office independently. ²The office of Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister of Labour were abolished and the office of Minister of Human Resources Development went in force on July 12, 1996. Under the new provisions, a Minister of Labour may be appointed. However, when no Minister of Labour is appointed, the Minister of Human Resources Development shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Minister of Labour. ³Styled "Minister of Labour and Housing".