The Honourable
Gilles Loiselle
PC OQ
Member of Parliament
for Langelier
In office
1988–1993
Preceded byMichel Côté
Succeeded byChristiane Gagnon
Personal details
Born(1929-05-20)20 May 1929
Ville-Marie, Quebec, Canada
Died29 September 2022(2022-09-29) (aged 93)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative Party of Canada
Spouse
Lorraine Benoît
​
(m. 1962)​
[1]
Children2
EducationUniversité Laval
ProfessionJournalist

Gilles Loiselle, PC OQ (20 May 1929 – 29 September 2022) was a Canadian politician.

Loiselle was born in Ville-Marie, Quebec on 20 May 1929. He worked as the correspondent for CBC News in Paris for a decade before being appointed the government of Quebec's agent-general in the United Kingdom in 1977.[2] He represented Quebec to the British government when the federal government of Canada was negotiating the Patriation of the Constitution of Canada from Britain in the 1980s.

After being elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1988 federal election, Loiselle joined the cabinet of Brian Mulroney. In 1990, he was elevated to the post of President of the Treasury Board and, in 1993, he served as Minister of Finance in the short-lived government of Kim Campbell.

Loiselle, a Progressive Conservative, was defeated in the 1993 election. The Tories were cut down to two seats, and Loiselle himself fell to third place in the vote count in his constituency.

He was named to the National Order of Quebec in 2011.[3]

He died in Montreal on 29 September 2022, aged 93.[4][5]

Electoral record

1988 Canadian federal election: Langelier
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Gilles Loiselle 24,555 46.65
Liberal Marielle Guay-Migneault 14,843 28.20
New Democratic Pauline Gingras 10,586 20.11
Green Gilles Fontaine 1,931 3.67
Marxist–Leninist France Tremblay 402 0.76
Independent Alexandre Roy 319 0.61
Total valid votes 52,636 100.00
Total rejected ballots 1,270
Turnout 53,906 72.54
Electors on the lists 74,312
1993 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Bloc Québécois Christiane Gagnon 27,788 53.7
Liberal Jean Pelletier 13,965 27.0 -1.2
Progressive Conservative Gilles Loiselle 7,077 13.7 -33.0
New Democratic Majella Desmeules 1,067 2.1 -18.0
Natural Law Danielle Charland 883 1.7
Green Richard Domm 786 1.5 -2.1
Abolitionist Ernst Fernandez 158 0.3
Total valid votes 51,724 100.0

References

  1. ^ Canadian Parliamentary Guide
  2. ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
  3. ^ "Gilles Loiselle". Retrieved 8 October 2022. (in French)
  4. ^ L’ancien ministre fédéral des Finances Gilles Loiselle est décédé (in French)
  5. ^ "Gilles Loiselle | Outremont | Services Commémoratifs Mont-Royal / Mount-Royal Commemorative Services".

External links

25th Ministry – Cabinet of Kim Campbell Cabinet post (1) Predecessor Office Successor Don Mazankowski Minister of Finance1993 Paul Martin 24th Ministry – Cabinet of Brian Mulroney Cabinet post (1) Predecessor Office Successor Robert de Cotret President of the Treasury Board1990–1993 Jim Edwards Parliament of Canada Preceded byMichel Côté, Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Langelier 1988-1993 Succeeded byChristiane Gagnon, B.Q.


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