Allan MacEachen
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| Born | Allan Joseph MacEachen July 6, 1921 Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 12, 2017 (Age 96) Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St. Francis Xavier University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party of Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Both Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Canada/President of the Privy Council twice
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Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician.
Education
Born in Inverness on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, MacEachen graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, and lectured in economics for several years at the school. MacEachen's parents both spoke the distinctive Nova Scotia dialect of Scottish Gaelic at home and MacEachen himself was a fluent speaker.[1]
Career
MacEachen was elected for the first time to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1953 election as a Liberal under the leadership of Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent. He was defeated in the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker sweep in the 1958 election, but was reelected in 162, and sat until 1984.
When Lester B. Pearson formed a Liberal government in 1963, he appointed MacEachen to cabinet as Minister of Labour. It was the beginning of a lengthy career in cabinet in which MacEachen has several portfolios under Prime Ministers Pearson, Pierre Trudeau and John Turner. Over the course of his career, MacEachen held the following portfolios: Labour, National Health and Welfare, Manpower and Immigration, Privy Council, External Affairs, and Finance.
In addition to his ministerial responsibilities, MacEachen served as Government House Leader on three occasions and became the first Deputy Prime Minister of Canada in 1977 under Trudeau, a post that was held whenever Trudeau was in office until the latter retired.
MacEachen took the role of Finance Minister and announced the National Energy Policy as part of his 1980 budget. He also angered public sector unions in his 1982 budget by imposing a wage restraint package dubbed "six and five," which limited wage increases to 6% and 5% for the next two years.[2] That was while double-digit interest rates and inflation were common.
From 1984 to 1991, he was leader of the opposition in the Senate. MacEachen retired from the Senate in 1996 after he had reached the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1983 | 13 May 1983 | 15 May 1983 | Canada Quebec Château Montebello | The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada |
