2008, ISBN: 9781156262139

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maxime Bernier, PC, MP (born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian member of Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. A businessman and lawyer, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the January 2006 federal election to represent the riding of Beauce, Quebec. In August 2007 he became Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maxime Bernier, PC, MP (born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian member of Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. A businessman and lawyer, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the January 2006 federal election to represent the riding of Beauce, Quebec. In August 2007 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, but was forced to resign from cabinet on May 26, 2008 after a scandal involving an ex-girlfriend, Julie Couillard, with ties to the Hell's Angels. Despite the scandal, however, Bernier was easily re-elected in the 2008 election. Bernier was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec, the son of Gilles Bernier, who represented the Beauce riding from 1984 to 1997 first as a Progressive Conservative and then as an independent. Maxime has a bachelor's degree in commerce from UQAM and a degree in Law from the University of Ottawa. He is a former vice president of the Montreal Economic Institute, a Quebec think-tank advocating smaller government. He was regarded as belonging to the libertarian wing of the party. He has made several public comments denying humans are responsible for climate change Bernier was elected to parliament as one of a group of new Conservative MPs in the 2006 Canadian election. He won 67 percent of the vote, the best performance for a Conservative candidate in a riding east of Manitoba. Bernier was one of the higher-profile freshman MPs from Quebec, and as such, on 6 February 2006 he was appointed federal Minister of Industry. He was also the minister responsible for Statistics Canada, replacing the former minister, David Emerson. By virtue of being appointed as the Minister of Industry, Bernier also served as the Registrar General. Following a cabinet shuffle in August 2007, Bernier, the neophyte MP, was appoint. More: Books, , People-From-Saint-Georges-Quebec~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<