30 Facts About Rodrigue Tremblay

Rodrigue Tremblay was born on October 13,1939 and is a Canadian economist, humanist and political figure.

Rodrigue Tremblay is an emeritus professor of economics at the Universite de Montreal.

Rodrigue Tremblay specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance.

Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of books in economics and politics.

Rodrigue Tremblay was born in Matane, Quebec, on October 13,1939, the son of George Tremblay, a contractor, and Germaine St-Louis.

Rodrigue Tremblay is married to Carole Howard Tremblay, an author, and the couple has three children as well as seven grandchildren including Canadian Ski Cross athlete Phil Tremblay.

Rodrigue Tremblay has been a professor of economics at the Universite de Montreal since 1967.

Rodrigue Tremblay was president of the Societe canadienne de science economique and of the North American Economics and Finance Association.

Rodrigue Tremblay was chairman of the Department of Economics of the Universite de Montreal, member of the Committee of Dispute Settlements of the North American Free Trade Agreement and vice-president of the Association internationale des economistes de langue francaise, from 1999 to 2005.

Rodrigue Tremblay was invited scholar and economic consultant at the Bank of Canada, the Economic Council of Canada, the Quebec Commission of Inquiry on the Quebec Liquor Trade, the West African Monetary Union, the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada and the United Nations.

Rodrigue Tremblay presided at the foundation of the North American Review of Economics and Finance and was associate editor of the Review L'Action nationale and the financial weekly Les Affaires.

Rodrigue Tremblay was elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Montreal riding of Gouin in the 1976 Quebec election as candidate of the Parti Quebecois.

Rodrigue Tremblay served as Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Quebec, from 1976 to 1979.

Rodrigue Tremblay sponsored the sale of wine in Quebec's 12,000 private grocery stores.

Rodrigue Tremblay resigned from the Levesque Cabinet on September 19,1979.

Rodrigue Tremblay resumed his academic career on April 15,1981.

Rodrigue Tremblay was a proponent of the creation of a North American Free Trade Area.

Rodrigue Tremblay is a Quebec nationalist who attempted to reconcile the need for economic integration, economies of scale, increased productivity, an active industrial policy, and political and cultural sovereignty for small nations.

In 1986, when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a politician from Quebec, announced that his Progressive Conservative government would formally propose a Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Rodrigue Tremblay became president of a committee of Canadian economists to support the measure.

Later, Rodrigue Tremblay opposed the creation of a North American Union, which would have further deepened the economic integration of Canada to the United States, and could have placed Canadian independence at risk.

Rodrigue Tremblay made contributions in other fields of economics and economic policy, especially in vulgarisation, international economics, international trade, and has authored several textbooks on economics and macroeconomics.

Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of textbooks on economics and macroeconomics in French.

Rodrigue Tremblay has published in the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Review of North American Economics and Finance, the Atlantic Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Canadian Journal of Regional Science, The India Economy Review, Global Research, Policy Options, L'Action Nationale, l'Actualite Economique, Vigile, and in the financial journal Les Affaires.

Rodrigue Tremblay is a public intellectual who is known for his contributions to the understanding of international, Canadian and Quebec politics.

Rodrigue Tremblay writes an international blog about economics, finance, politics and geopolitics, in many languages.

Rodrigue Tremblay has served as an arbiter on the Committee of Dispute Settlements of NAFTA, from 1989 to 1993.

From 1999 to 2004, Rodrigue Tremblay published four books about politics and geopolitics.

In 2002, Rodrigue Tremblay published a book of political philosophy entitled L'Heure Juste.

Rodrigue Tremblay has previously stated his support for the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system.

In 2009 and in 2009 and in 2010, Rodrigue Tremblay published The Code for Global Ethics, with a preface by Dr Paul Kurtz.