The Honourable
Gilles Loiselle
PC OQ
Member of Parliament
for Langelier
In office
1988–1993
Preceded byMichel Côté
Succeeded byChristiane Gagnon
Personal details
Born(1929-05-20)20 May 1929
Ville-Marie, Quebec, Canada
Died29 September 2022(2022-09-29) (aged 93)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative Party of Canada
Spouse
Lorraine Benoît
​
(m. 1962)​
[1]
Children2
EducationUniversité Laval
ProfessionJournalist

Gilles Loiselle, PC OQ (20 May 1929 – 29 September 2022) was a Canadian politician.

Loiselle was born in Ville-Marie, Quebec on 20 May 1929. He worked as the correspondent for CBC News in Paris for a decade before being appointed the government of Quebec's agent-general in the United Kingdom in 1977.[2] He represented Quebec to the British government when the federal government of Canada was negotiating the Patriation of the Constitution of Canada from Britain in the 1980s.

After being elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1988 federal election, Loiselle joined the cabinet of Brian Mulroney. In 1990, he was elevated to the post of President of the Treasury Board and, in 1993, he served as Minister of Finance in the short-lived government of Kim Campbell.

Loiselle, a Progressive Conservative, was defeated in the 1993 election. The Tories were cut down to two seats, and Loiselle himself fell to third place in the vote count in his constituency.

He was named to the National Order of Quebec in 2011.[3]

He died in Montreal on 29 September 2022, aged 93.[4][5]

Electoral record

1988 Canadian federal election: Langelier
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Progressive ConservativeGilles Loiselle24,55546.65
LiberalMarielle Guay-Migneault14,84328.20
New DemocraticPauline Gingras10,58620.11
GreenGilles Fontaine1,9313.67
Marxist–LeninistFrance Tremblay4020.76
IndependentAlexandre Roy3190.61
Total valid votes 52,636 100.00
Total rejected ballots 1,270
Turnout 53,906 72.54
Electors on the lists 74,312
1993 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Bloc QuébécoisChristiane Gagnon27,78853.7
LiberalJean Pelletier13,96527.0-1.2
Progressive ConservativeGilles Loiselle7,07713.7-33.0
New DemocraticMajella Desmeules1,0672.1-18.0
Natural LawDanielle Charland8831.7
GreenRichard Domm7861.5-2.1
AbolitionistErnst Fernandez1580.3
Total valid votes 51,724100.0

References

  1. ↑ Canadian Parliamentary Guide
  2. ↑ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
  3. ↑ "Gilles Loiselle". Retrieved 8 October 2022. (in French)
  4. ↑ L’ancien ministre fédéral des Finances Gilles Loiselle est décédé (in French)
  5. ↑ "Gilles Loiselle | Outremont | Services Commémoratifs Mont-Royal / Mount-Royal Commemorative Services".
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