Philip Reed Scowen (June 13, 1931 – May 28, 2020) was a
Canadian business executive, author and politician, living in
Quebec.
Born in
Sherbrooke,
Quebec, Scowen graduated from
Bishop's University in Quebec's
Eastern Townships
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, and later took a degree in administration from
Harvard University. In 1972 he attended the London School of Economics
For 18 years Scowen was President and General Manager of the Canadian paper company, Perkins. He served on the Boards of a number of public companies.
From 1974 to 1978 he worked for the Canadian federal government in Ottawa as Executive Director of the Price Control Program (AIB) and the Task Force on Canadian Unity.
Scowen was a Member of the
National Assembly of Quebec from 1978 to 1987, representing the electoral district of
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce as a member of the
Quebec Liberal Party
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. He later acted as an economic adviser to former
Premier
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Robert Bourassa
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, and as delegate general for
Quebec in
London,
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and Washington.
Scowen was actively involved in the issue of Quebec's place in Canada. He was Chairman of
anglophone civil rights group
Alliance Quebec. He favored official bilingualism for the City of
Montréal.
He was the author of two books on Canadian politics and was a regular columnist on business and economic matters for the Montreal Gazette.
In May 2011 Scowen was awarded the Honorary Degree - DCL Honoris causa - at Bishop's University for services to Quebec and the University
His son
Peter Scowen has worked for
CanWest Global
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's
National Post
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newspaper and the
Globe & Mail. Reed died in Toronto in May 2020 at the age of 88.
Publications
* ''Réflexions sur l'avenir de la langue anglaise au Québec'' (1979)
* ''A Different Vision: the English in Quebec in the 1990s'' (1991)
* ''Le temps des adieux — Plaidoyer pour un Canada sans le Québec'', V.l.B. (1999)
* ''Time to Say Goodbye: Building a Better Canada Without Quebec'' (second edition, 2007)
References
External links
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1931 births
2020 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Bishop's University alumni
Businesspeople from Sherbrooke
Harvard Business School alumni
Politicians from Sherbrooke
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
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