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Pierre Blais fonds [multiple media]

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Fonds

Date:

1745-2020.

Reference:

R16939-0-3-E

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Item ID number:

6327229

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Pierre Blais fonds [multiple media]
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1745-2020.

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Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

7.6 m of textual records.
15.2661 GB of textual records.
514 photographs : 231 b&w and 283 col.
169 digital photographs.
55 videocassettes.
2 ? DVDs.
107 audiocassettes.
5 videos clips : digital
1 sound reel
2 prints : posters.
4 buttons.

Language of material:

English

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Pierre Blais fonds [multiple media]

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Blais, Pierre, 1948-

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Blais, Pierre, 1948- : Pierre Blais was born in 1948, and was elected to the House of Commons in 1984. He was parliamentary secretary from 1984 to 1987, Minister of State for Agriculture from 1987 to 1989, Solicitor General from 1989 to 1990, Minister of Consumer Affairs and of Corporations and Minister of State for Agriculture from 1990 to 1993, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in January 1993 and also appointed President of the Privy Council in June 1993. He was defeated in the October 1993 elections .

A member of the bars of Quebec and Ontario, Pierre Blais was appointed judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division, ex officio member of the Court of Appeal and judge of the Court of Appeal of the court martial of Canada in June 1998.

On February 20, 2008, he was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal. On September 9, 2009, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal. He retired as Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 23, 2014.

On May 1, 2015, Blais was appointed Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, replacing Acting Chair Deborah Gray who was leaving the Committee. SIRC was dissolved on July 19, 2019 with the creation of the National Security and Intelligence Review Office. Blais was a member of OSSNR until his term expired on May 1, 2020.

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