Ghislain Maltais | |
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![]() Maltais in 2017 | |
Canadian Senator from Shawinegan | |
In office January 6, 2012 –April 22, 2019 | |
Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
Appointed by | David Johnston |
Preceded by | Lucie Pépin (2011) |
Succeeded by | Tony Loffreda |
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saguenay | |
In office June 20,1983 –September 12,1994 | |
Preceded by | Lucien Lessard (1982) |
Succeeded by | Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon |
Personal details | |
Born | Sacré-Coeur,Quebec,Canada | April 22,1944
Political party | Conservative (federal) Quebec Liberal (provincial) |
Ghislain Maltais (born April 22,1944) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Senate of Canada from January 6,2012 to April 22,2019 as a Conservative representing the Senate division of Shawinegan (Quebec).
He was born in Sacré-Coeur,Quebec and studied at the Universitédu Québec àRimouski.
Maltais was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1981 Quebec election,but won a by-election on June 20,1983. He was a member of the Quebec National Assembly representing Saguenay from 1983 until 1994,when he did not run for re-election. [1] He was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in Charlevoix.
Prior to being appointed to the Senate by Stephen Harper,Maltais was a political organizer for the Conservative Party of Canada. [2] He worked on contract for the Conservative Party from 2006 to 2007,and has been the director of the Conservative Party in Quebec since 2009. [3]