Allan MacEachen
 Allan MacEachen    (politician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party of Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Both Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Canada/President of the Privy Council twice. Attended Bilderberg/1983.
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Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician. He attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting.
Background
Born in Inverness on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, MacEachen's parents both spoke the distinctive Nova Scotia dialect of Scottish Gaelic at home and MacEachen himself was a fluent speaker. is father was a coal miner, his mother a homemaker.[1]
Education
MacEachen was a devout Roman Catholic[2]. MacEachen obtained a BA in 1944 from St. Francis Xavier University (SFX). During his studies at, he was influenced by Father Moses Coady and his Antigonish Movement. This school of Catholic social thought aimed to imbue people with a spirit of solidarity by promoting co-operation, unionism and adult education.[3][2]
Scholarships made it possible for him to continue his studies at the University of Toronto, where he got a MA in Political Economy in 1946, and the University of Chicago, and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
His older brothers John became a university professor in the United States.]][2]
Career
MacEachen became the Head of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at St. Francis Xavier University in 1948.[2]
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.[4]
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.[5] MacEachen ran an unsuccessful campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1968.
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 Pierre Trudeau, a post that was held whenever Trudeau was in office until the latter retired.[5]
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.[6] 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.[5]
The bachelor's private life was "a closely-guarded secret".[3]
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 |
References
- ↑ https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/former-federal-liberal-cabinet-minister-allan-maceachen-dies-at-age-96-2
- ↑ a b c d https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=5067080 under drop-down boxes "Record information – Details" then "Biography/Administrative history"
- ↑ a b c https://www.historymuseum.ca/blog/allan-maceachen-the-celtic-sphinx-1921-2017
- ↑ https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/former-federal-liberal-cabinet-minister-allan-maceachen-dies-at-age-96-2
- ↑ a b c https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/allan-maceachen-former-federal-liberal-cabinet-minister-dies-1.4286949
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=w9EjUEod0xMC&dat=19820629&printsec=frontpage&hl=fr
