16 Facts About Marcel Masse

Marcel Masse served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.

Marcel Masse worked as a high school teacher in Joliette, Quebec, from 1962 to 1966.

Marcel Masse served as a minister in the governments of Quebec premiers Daniel Johnson and Jean-Jacques Bertrand.

Marcel Masse was a leadership candidate at the party convention of 1971, but lost by 21 votes.

Marcel Masse left the Union Nationale to sit as an independent until his term expired in 1973.

In 1974, Marcel Masse was hired by the engineering firm Lavalin as an administrator.

Marcel Masse attempted to win a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative candidate, but was defeated in the 1974 and 1980 federal elections.

Marcel Masse was elected as Member of Parliament for Frontenac in the 1984 election that brought Brian Mulroney and the Tories to power.

Marcel Masse resigned from the Canadian Cabinet on September 25,1985, during an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of alleged overspending during his election campaign.

Marcel Masse was moved out of the Communications portfolio to that of Minister of Energy in 1986 when it appeared to Mulroney that Masse might be an obstacle to the free trade negotiations.

Marcel Masse was moved back to Communications following the 1988 election and the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement.

Marcel Masse resigned from cabinet in January 1993 along with a number of other ministers who were not intending to run in the 1993 election.

Marcel Masse was head of one of fourteen regional committees that held public hearings on Quebec independence in 1995 in the run up to the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.

Marcel Masse served as president of the Conseil de la langue francaise du Quebec in 1995, and as Quebec's delegate-general in France from 1996 to 1997.

Marcel Masse has served as chair of the Commission des biens culturels du Quebec.

Marcel Masse is a Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques.