Jean-Pierre Goyer

Jean-Pierre Goyer, PC (born January 17, 1932) is a lawyer and former Canadian Cabinet minister.

Goyer was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Dollard, Quebec in the 1965 election. He was re-elected in the 1968 election, and in 1970, was appointed to the Cabinet as Solicitor General of Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In this position, he and oversaw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the aftermath of the FLQ Crisis.

During Goyer's tenure, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police engaged in controversial practices in an attempt to suppress the militant wing of the separatist movement. Many of the practices by the RCMP were subsequently challenged by the McDonald Commission, and led to the creation of a separate civilian security agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in the 1980s when intelligence responsibilities were removed from the federal police force.

Following the 1972 election, he was moved to the portfolio of Minister of Supply and Services.

Goyer left Cabinet in November 1978 in the pre-election cabinet shuffle, and was not a candidate in the 1979 election.

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