Quebec lieutenant
For information on the representative of the Queen in Right of Quebec, see Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
In Canadian politics, a Quebec lieutenant is a politician, from Quebec, usually a francophone and most often a Member of Parliament or at least a current or former candidate for Parliament, who is selected by a senior politician such as the Prime Minister or the leader of a national federal party, as his or her main advisor and/or spokesperson on issues specific to Quebec. This is particularly the case when the leader is an anglophone, though several francophone leaders have also had Quebec lieutenants; all francophone leaders of the Liberal Party have had Quebec lieutenants. This is usually a well-known but often an unofficial assignment. The position has no official legal status.
Notable Quebec lieutenants
Some past and current Quebec lieutenants include:
Liberal Party of Canada (since 1867)
* Position split into two position: leaders' representative/advisor and chief provincial organizer[9]
Conservative Party of Canada (from 1867 until 1942)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir George-Étienne Cartier | Montreal East (Montreal East) | 1867 | 1873 | Sir John A. Macdonald | |
| Sir Hector Langevin | Dorchester (Chaudière-Appalaches) until 1876 Charlevoix (Québec) 1876-78 Trois-Rivières (Mauricie) after 1878 | 1873 | 1891 | Sir John A. Macdonald | |
| Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet | Laval (Laval) | 1891 | 1896 | Sir John Abbott Sir John Thompson Sir Mackenzie Bowell Sir Charles Tupper | |
| Frederick Debartzch Monk | Jacques-Cartier (Montreal West) | 1911 | 1914 | Sir Robert Borden | |
| Pierre-Édouard Blondin | Champlain (Mauricie) | 1914 | 1921 | Sir Robert Borden | |
| Esioff-Léon Patenaude | none[10] | 1925 | 1926 | Arthur Meighen | |
Progressive Conservative Party (from 1942 until 2004)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georges-Henri Héon | Argenteuil (Laurentides) | 1949 | 1949 | George A. Drew | |
| Léon Balcer | Trois-Rivières (Mauricie) | 1957 | 1965 | John George Diefenbaker | |
| Marcel Faribault | none[11] | 1967 | 1968 | Robert Stanfield | |
| Claude Wagner | Saint-Hyacinthe (Montérégie) | 1972 | 1978 | Robert Stanfield Joe Clark | |
| Lucien Bouchard | Lac-Saint-Jean (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean) | 1988 | 1990 | Brian Mulroney | |
| Benoît Bouchard | Roberval (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean) | 1990 | 1993 | Brian Mulroney | |
| Monique Landry | Blainville—Deux-Montagnes (Laurentides) | 1993 | 1993 | Kim Campbell | |
| André Bachand | Richmond—Arthabaska (Centre-du-Québec & Eastern Townships) | 1998 | 2004 | Joe Clark Peter MacKay | |
Reform Party (from 1987 until 2000)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilles St-Laurent | none[12] | 1996 | 1997 | Preston Manning | |
Canadian Alliance (from 2000 until 2004)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gérard Latulippe | none[13] | 2000 | 2000 | Stockwell Day | |
Conservative Party of Canada (from 2004 until now)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josée Verner | Louis-Saint-Laurent (Québec)[14] | 2004 | 2005 | Stephen Harper | |
| Lawrence Cannon | Pontiac (Outaouais) | 2005 | 2008 | Stephen Harper | |
| Christian Paradis | Mégantic—L'Érable (Eastern Townships) | 2008[15] | 2013 | Stephen Harper | |
| Denis Lebel | Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean) | 2013[16] | Current | Stephen Harper Rona Ambrose | |
New Democratic Party (since 1961)
| Political lieutenant | District (Area) |
Took Office | Left Office | Party leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Cliche | none[17] | 1964 | 1968 | Tommy Douglas | |
| Claude Rompré | none[18] | 1986 | 1990 | Ed Broadbent | |
| Pierre Ducasse | none[19] | 2003 | 2007[20] | Jack Layton | |
| Thomas Mulcair | Outremont[21] (Montreal West) | 2007[22] | 2012 | Jack Layton Nycole Turmel | |
Footnotes
- ↑ Appointed on May 2, 2007 Le PLC veut regagner le coeur des francophones, La Presse, May 2, 2007
- ↑ Senatorial Division
- ↑ Appointed on October 16, 2007 Hervieux-Payette devient le lieutenant de Dion au Québec, La Presse, October 16, 2007
- ↑ Appointed on January 22, 2009 Coderre devient lieutenant politique au Québec, La Presse, January 22, 2009
- ↑ Left on September 28, 2009 Coderre steps down as Ignatieff's Quebec Lieutenant, CTV News, September 28, 2009
- ↑ Left on September 28, 2009 Coderre quitte son poste de lieutenant politique, La Presse, September 28, 2009
- ↑ Appointed on October 7, 2009 Marc Garneau named Quebec lieutenant, Montreal Gazette, October 7, 2009 Archived October 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Appointed on October 21, 2009 Ignatieff names new Quebec organizer, Montreal Gazette, October 21, 2009
- ↑ Ignatieff names new Quebec organizer, Montreal Gazette, October 21, 2009
- ↑ Patenaude ran in the district of Jacques-Cartier (Montreal West) in 1925 and in 1926. Each time he was defeated.
- ↑ Marcel Faribault tried to win a seat in the district of Gamelin
(Montreal East) in 1968. He was defeated. - ↑ Gilles St-Laurent ran in the district of Louis-Hébert (Québec) in 1997. He was defeated.
- ↑ Gérard Latulippe ran in the district of Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier (Québec) in 2000. He was defeated.
- ↑ Josée Verner was first elected to Parliament in 2006. It was her second attempt.
- ↑ Harper dévoile son nouveau cabinet, Joël-Denis Bellavance, La Presse, October 30, 2008
- ↑ Harper shakes up his Quebec team, Daneil LeBlanc, The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2013
- ↑ Robert Cliche ran in the district of Beauce (Chaudière-Appalaches) in 1965 and in Duvernay (Laval) in 1968. In both cases he was defeated.
- ↑ Claude Rompré ran in the district of Saint-Maurice (Mauricie) in 1986 and in 1988. Each time he was defeated.
- ↑ Pierre Ducasse ran in the district of Manicouagan (Côte-Nord) in 2004 and in 2006. Each time he was defeated. He is the NDP nominee for the next election in the district of Hull-Aylmer (Outaouais).
- ↑ Ducasse didn't actually leave office. He is still serving as Layton's Quebec special advisor in the Leader's office while Mulcair is the NDP's main spokesperson in Quebec.
- ↑ Thomas Mulcair won a by-election on September 17, 2007. Les libéraux éclipsés, La Presse, September 17, 2007
- ↑ Appointed on April 20, 2007 NDP recruits ex-Quebec environment minister Thomas Mulcair for next election, EarthEast, April 20, 2007
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