Jean-Pierre Blackburn

The Honourable
Jean-Pierre Blackburn
PC
The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn PC
	Jean-Pierre Blackburn in 2007
Member of Parliament; for Jonquière—Alma
	In office; 2006–2011
Preceded by	Sébastien Gagnon
Succeeded by	Claude Patry
Member of Parliament; for Jonquière
	In office; 1984–1993
Preceded by	Gilles Marceau
Succeeded by	André Caron
Personal details
Born	July 6, 1948 (age 75); Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Conservative; Progressive Conservative
Spouse	Ginette Laforest
Residence(s)	Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
Profession	Administrator, manager, professor
Cabinet	Minister of Veterans Affairs; Minister of State (Agriculture)

Jean-Pierre Blackburn, PC (born July 6, 1948) is a Canadian politician and diplomat. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Jonquière—Alma from 2006 to 2011; earlier, he was the Progressive Conservative MP for Jonquière from 1984 to 1993.

Blackburn was born in Jonquière, Quebec. In 1993, Blackburn was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence. On February 6, 2006, he was appointed Minister of Labour and Housing in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Cabinet. He was shuffled to the National Revenue portfolio on October 30, 2008, and became Minister of Veterans Affairs in 2010.[1]. In the May 2011 federal election, Blackburn lost to the NDP candidate, Claude Patry.

A businessman, Blackburn holds a bachelor's degree in administration and a master's in regional studies and intervention from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. He has also been a manager, administrator and a professor. More recently, he has been the president of Blackburn Communications Inc.

He was named Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in December 2011.^[1]

In May 2017, Jean-Pierre Blackburn became leader of the Citizens' Party of Saguenay in order to be a candidate for Mayor's office in the November municipal election.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Clark, Campbell (May 10, 2012). "Harper rewards defeated minister Lawrence Cannon with Paris post". Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
^ "Jean-Pierre Blackburn est le nouveau chef du PCS | Patricia Rainville | Actualités". Archived from the original on 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2017-05-12.

External links[edit]

Jean-Pierre Blackburn – Parliament of Canada biography

Cabinet posts (5)
28th Ministry – Cabinet of Stephen Harper
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Greg Thompson	Minister of Veterans Affairs 2010–2011	Steven Blaney
Gordon O'Connor	Minister of National Revenue 2008–2010	Keith Ashfield
Christian Paradis as Secretary of State (Agriculture)	Minister of State (Agriculture) 2008–2011	none
Joe Fontana	Minister of Labour 2006–2008	Rona Ambrose
Jacques Saada	Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec 2006–2008	Denis Lebel as Minister of State (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec)

[1] Clark, Campbell (May 10, 2012). "Harper rewards defeated minister Lawrence Cannon with Paris post". Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 11, 2021.

[2] "Jean-Pierre Blackburn est le nouveau chef du PCS | Patricia Rainville | Actualités". Archived from the original on 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2017-05-12.

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v t e Ministers of Veterans Affairs
Ministers of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment (1918–28)	Lougheed Manion Béland Elliott Manion (acting) Morand (acting) Paquet King
Ministers of Pensions and National Health (1928–44)	King Ralston McLaren Sutherland Power Mackenzie
Ministers of Veterans Affairs (1944–present)	Mackenzie Gregg Lapointe Brooks Churchill Lambert Teillet Dubé Laing MacDonald McKinnon MacDonald Lamontagne (acting) Campbell Hees Merrithew Campbell McCreath Collenette Young Mifflin Baker Duhamel Pagtakhan McCallum Guarnieri Thompson Blackburn Blaney Fantino O'Toole Hehr O'Regan Wilson-Raybould Sajjan (acting) MacAulay Taylor

v t e Ministers of National Revenue
Ministers of Customs and Inland Revenue (1918–21)	Sifton Reid (acting) Burrell Wigmore
Ministers of Customs and Excise (1921–27)	Wigmore Baxter Bureau Boivin Stevens Euler
Ministers of National Revenue (1927–present)	Euler Ryckman Matthews Lawson Ilsley Gibson MacKinnon (acting) D. MacLaren MacKinnon (acting) McCann Nowlan Flemming Garland McIlraith Benson Chrétien Côté Gray Stanbury Basford Cullen Bégin Guay Abbott Baker Rompkey Bussières R. MacLaren Beatty MacKay Jelinek Turner Anderson Stewart Dhaliwal Cauchon Caplan Keyes McCallum Skelton O'Connor Blackburn Ashfield Shea Findlay Lebouthillier Bibeau

v t e Ministers of Labour
Ministers of Labour (1900–96)	Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux¹ W. L. M. King Crothers Robertson Murdock J. H. King (acting) Elliott Manion (acting) Jones Heenan Robertson Gordon Rogers McLarty Mitchell Martin (acting) Gregg Starr MacEachen Nicholson Pépin Mackasey O'Connell Munro Ouellet (acting) O'Connell Alexander Regan Caccia Ouellet McKnight Cadieux Corbeil Danis Valcourt Axworthy Robillard
Ministers of Human Resources Development (1996–2005)²	Young Pettigrew Stewart Frulla Dryden
Ministers of Human Resources and Skills Development (2005–13)	Stronach Finley Solberg Finley
Ministers of Employment and Social Development (2013–15)	Kenney Poilievre
Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (2015–present)	Duclos
Ministers of Labour (1996–2015)	Robillard Gagliano MacAulay Bradshaw Fontana³ Blackburn Ambrose Raitt Leitch
Minister of Employment, Workforce and Labour (2015–2019)	Mihychuk Hajdu
Minister of Labour (2019–present)	Tassi O'Regan
¹Until 1909, the office of the minister of Labour was a secondary function of the Postmaster-General of Canada. W. L. M. King was the first to hold the office independently. ²The office of Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister of Labour were abolished and the office of Minister of Human Resources Development went in force on July 12, 1996. Under the new provisions, a Minister of Labour may be appointed. However, when no Minister of Labour is appointed, the Minister of Human Resources Development shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Minister of Labour. ³Styled "Minister of Labour and Housing".