- Serge Marcil
Serge Marcil, PC (born
June 20 1944 inValleyfield, Quebec ) is an educator, administrator and politician inQuebec ,Canada .After studying to be a teacher in
Montreal , Marcel obtained work at various secondary schools as an administrator. He also served on his local city council in the early 1980s before entering theQuebec National Assembly as a LiberalMember of the National Assembly (MNA) in the 1985 Quebec provincial election in the riding of Beauharnois. He was re-elected in 1989, and became parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Labour in the Bourassa government. In 1994, he joined the provincial cabinet of Daniel Johnson as Minister of Employment, but both he and the Liberal government were defeated in the 1994 provincial election.Marcil entered federal politics by defeating "
Bloc Québécois " (BQ)Member of Parliament (MP)Daniel Turp in the riding ofBeauharnois—Salaberry in the 2000 federal election. The Liberal MP becameparliamentary secretary to the Minister of Industry in 2002. WhenPaul Martin succeededJean Chrétien asPrime Minister of Canada in 2003, he appointed Marcil to the position of parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment with special emphasis on parks. He was also appointed to theQueen's Privy Council for Canada when Martin decided that parliamentary secretaries should be members of that body.Marcil ran for re-election in the 2004 general election but was defeated by
Alain Boire of the BQ.External links
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/m-n/MARCS.htm Serge MARCIL] at
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