- Gilles Morin
Gilles Morin (born
July 20 ,1931 in Dolbeau,Quebec ) is a retiredpolitician inOntario ,Canada . He served as a Liberal member of theOntario legislature from 1985 to 1999, and was briefly acabinet minister .Morin was educated at the
Séminaire de Québec , theAcadémie Commerciale de Québec andthe École Supérieure Montcalm . He was a member of the Regular Forces of theCanadian Army from 1951 to 1959, and served inKorea with the 3rd Battalion of the Royal 22e Régiment. He was an aide-de-camp to Governors-GeneralVincent Massey andGeorges Vanier from 1957 to 1959, and served in the Governor-General's footguards from 1959 to 1964. He retired with the rank ofCaptain .Morin subsequently became an investment dealer, and was president of the Caisse populaire Montfort for three years. In 1976, he also served as Director of Regional Services for the Office of the Ombudsman in Ontario.
He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative
Bob MacQuarrie by over 7,000 votes in theCarleton East constituency. The Liberal Party formed aminority government after this election, and Morin served as an Assistant Speaker for the next two years.He was easily re-elected in the 1987 election. From
August 2 ,1989 toOctober 1 ,1990 , he briefly served as aMinister without portfolio responsible for Senior Citizens Affairs in the government ofDavid Peterson .Morin was easily returned again in the 1990 election, although the Liberals were upset by the New Democratic Party. For the next five years, he served in parliament as Deputy Speaker.
He faced the most difficult election of his career in the 1995 election, defeating Progressive Conservative
Jeff Slater by just over 4,000 votes. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Morin again served as a Deputy Speaker for the next four years. He did not run for re-election in 1999. Morin endorsedDalton McGuinty 's bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party in 1996 {"Canada NewsWire", 19 August 1996).External links
* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=344 Parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
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