Pierre H. Vincent
Pierre H. Vincent, Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a Canadian tax lawyer and former politician.
Member of Parliament
Vincent was first elected 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
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
- ^ "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.
- ^ Harper recrute des nationalistes, Joël-Denis Bellavance, La Presse, September 4, 2008