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

Ville-Marie, Quebec Ville-Marie is a town on Lake Temiscaming in western Quebec, Canada. It is the largest city and seat of the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality. As one of the oldest towns in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, it is considered the cradl ...

on 20 May 1929. He worked as the correspondent for

CBC News CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca ...

in Paris for a decade before being appointed the government of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

's agent-general in the United Kingdom in 1977. He represented Quebec to the British government when the federal government of Canada was negotiating the

Patriation Patriation is the political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, 1982. The process was necessary because under the Statute of Westminster 1931, with Canada's agreement at the time, the British parl ...

of the

Constitution of Canada The Constitution of Canada (french: Constitution du Canada) is the supreme law in Canada. It outlines Canada's system of government and the civil and human rights of those who are citizens of Canada and non-citizens in Canada. Its contents a ...

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 The president of the Treasury Board () is a minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The president is the chair of the Treasury Board of Canada (a committee of Cabinet in the Privy Council) and is the minister responsible for the Treasury ...

and, in 1993, he served as

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

in the short-lived government of

Kim Campbell Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female ...

. Loiselle, a Progressive Conservative, was defeated in the 1993 election. The Tories were cut down to two seats, and Loiselle himself was held to third place. He was named to the National Order of Quebec in 2011. He died in Montreal on 29 September 2022, aged 93.

Electoral record

References

External links

* 1929 births 2022 deaths Canadian Ministers of Finance Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Members of the 24th Canadian Ministry Members of the 25th Canadian Ministry Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada People from Abitibi-Témiscamingue French Quebecers {{ProgressiveConservative-Quebec-MP-stub