Rémi Bujold
Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine | |
|---|---|
| In office May 22, 1979 – July 4, 1984 | |
| Preceded by | Albert Béchard |
| Succeeded by | Darryl Gray |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Roger Rémi Bujold October 18, 1944 |
| Political party | Liberal |
Joseph Roger Rémi Bujold, PC CM (born October 18, 1944) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician.
Bujold began his career in politics in the early 1970s as special assistant to the Minister of Financial Institutions in the
chief of staff to Quebec's Minister of State for Social Affairs. In 1975, he became special assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau
.
Bujold was first elected to the
Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The Liberal party was defeated in the election, and Bujold joined the Liberals on the opposition benches. He was re-elected in the 1980 election that defeated the Progressive Conservative
government and returned the Liberals to power.
In 1981, he became
Minister of State for regional development. Both the Turner government and Bujold were defeated in the 1984 federal election
.
He returned to
Leader of the Opposition
.
Bujold attempted to regain his
seat in the 1988 federal election
but was unsuccessful.
Bujold founded Consilium, a public affairs consultancy in Quebec that merged with GPC Public Affairs in 1994, at which point he became senior counsel with GPC.
Bujold is Chair of the Canadian Landmine Foundation, and Past-Chairman of the Board of the Council for Canadian Unity, an organization that he joined in 1990.
In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.