Naval Lieutenant (Retired) Serge Ménard (born September 27, 1941 in

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) is a politician from

, Canada. He was a member of the

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from 1993 to 2003, and a member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. Outside politics he has been a lawyer, lecturer and professor. He joined HMCS Donnacona in 1959, within the framework of the UNTD (University Naval Training Division) and served in the Royal Canadian Navy until 1968. He was commissioned as an officer in 1962, spent his summers serving in Halifax, Hamilton and Victoria and was promoted to the rank of Lt. in 1964. The following year, in 1965, he was appointed executive officer of the UNTD in Montreal. He was first elected as a

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member of the

in a 1993 by-election in the riding of Laval-des-Rapides. He was re-elected in 1994 and

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, but defeated in 2003. During that time he served under a number of Cabinet portfolios: Minister of Public Safety (1994–1996; 1998–2002; 2002–2003), Minister of State for the Greater Montreal & Minister Responsible for the Montreal Region (1996–1997),

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and Attorney General (1997–1998) and Minister of Transport (2002–2003). Ménard was elected as a member of the Bloc Québécois in the House of Commons of Canada in the

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. He represented the riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin and was the Bloc critic to the

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. He was re-elected in 2006 and

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, but did not run in 2011. Ménard was made an Officer in the

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in 2020.

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