| 词条 | Gerald Comeau |
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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | name = Gerald J. Comeau | honorific-suffix = PC | image = | office = Senator for Nova Scotia | appointed = Brian Mulroney | predecessor = | successor = | term_start = August 30, 1990 | term_end = November 30, 2013 | office2 = MP for West Nova | term_start2 = September 4, 1984 | term_end2 = November 21, 1988 | predecessor2 = Coline Campbell | successor2 = Coline Campbell | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|2|1}} | birth_place = Meteghan Station, Nova Scotia | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | spouse = Aurore | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | religion = Roman Catholic | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}Gerald J. Comeau, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}}, (born February 1, 1946) is a Canadian retired Senator and politician. Early lifeBorn in Meteghan Station, Nova Scotia, Comeau is an accountant by training. Comeau received his B.Comm and his B.Ed from the Université de Moncton. Comeau is a member of Nova Scotia's Acadian minority. Political careerHe was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as part of the Progressive Conservative (PC) landslide win in the 1984 election. The Member of Parliament for South West Nova, Nova Scotia, Comeau was a government backbencher throughout his term and was defeated in the 1988 election due in part to the unpopularity of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement in Atlantic Canada. In 1990, Comeau was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, on the advice of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He sat as a Progressive Conservative until February 2004. He has been a Conservative Party senator since the merger of the PC Party into that party. He served as Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate from February 23, 2006, to May 24, 2011. On January 19, 2013, Governor-General David Johnston, on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appointed Comeau to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. Comeau retired from the Senate on November 30, 2013 - seven years before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.[1] External links
References1. ^{{cite news|title=Gerald Comeau announces early retirement from Senate|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gerald-comeau-announces-early-retirement-from-senate-1.2434006|accessdate=November 20, 2013|newspaper=CBC News|date=December 12, 2013}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Comeau, Gerald}}{{NovaScotia-politician-stub}} 12 : 1946 births|Living people|Acadian people|Canadian senators from Nova Scotia|Conservative Party of Canada senators|Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators|Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia|Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada|Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs|People from Digby County, Nova Scotia|Université de Moncton alumni|21st-century Canadian politicians |
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