THE POLITICAL POWER

• 20 April 1968 - 4 June 1979
• 3 March 1980 - 30 June 1984

BORN

• 18 October 1919, Montreal, Quebec

EDUCATION

• University of Montreal (Law)
• Harvard University (Master's Program)
• Postgraduate studies at École des sciences politiques in Paris and the London School of Economics

PERSONAL STATUS

• Married 1971, Margaret Sinclair (b. 1948)
• Three sons
• Divorced 1984

OCCUPATION

• Lawyer (called to the Quebec Bar in 1943, to the Ontario Bar in 1967)
• 1949 - 1951 Advisor to the Privy Council
• 1950 Co-founder and director, Cité libre
• 1961 - 1965 Associate Professor of Law, University of Montreal
• 1961 - 1965 Researcher, Institut de recherches en droit public
• Author
• Currently law consultant

PARTY

• Liberal
• 1968 - 1984 Party Leader

CONSTITUENCIES

• 1965 - 1984 Mount Royal, Quebec

OTHER MINISTRIES

• 1967 - 1968 Justice

POLITICAL RECORD

• Official Languages Act 1969
• October Crises (implementation of War Measures Act) 1970
• Appointed Muriel McQueen Fergusson first woman Speaker of the Senate 1972
• Wage and Price Controls 1975
• Significant role in the victory of the "No" forces in the Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty-Association 1980
• Appointed Jeanne Sauvé first woman Spesker of the House of Commons 1980
• Canadian Charter of Human Rights 1982
• Constitution Act (gave Canada full legal independence from Great Britain) 1982
• Appointed Jeanne Sauvé Canada's first woman Governor General 1984