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Lawrence Cannon was born on 6 December, 1947 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian politician. Discover Lawrence Cannon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 6 December, 1947
Birthday 6 December
Birthplace Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1935

The Liberals had held the riding and its predecessors for all but nine years since 1935, and the Conservative candidate had finished a distant third in 2004 with 22.15% of the vote.

1947

Lawrence Cannon, (born December 6, 1947) is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant.

1971

He graduated in political science from the Université de Montréal in 1971; and then worked for Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa as correspondence secretary, leaving in 1976 for higher academic studies.

1979

Cannon received an MBA from Université Laval in 1979.

1981

He worked then in private sector as a financial analyst for Société de développement industriel until 1981; and then as head of Les Radiateurs Roy ltée from September 1981, to December 1985.

Cannon has been a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus.

1985

Cannon then was elected in 1985 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party to the National Assembly of Quebec for the provincial riding of La Peltrie; and then served as Parliamentary Secretary: notably to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Technological Development, and then Tourism.

1990

From October 1990 to January 1994 he was minister for communications, and implemented the 911 emergency system as well as the Privacy Act within Quebec.

He was also active with the federal Liberals supporting Sheila Copps (who as well later became Deputy Prime Minister of Canada) in her attempt to win the federal 1990 Liberal leadership election won instead by Jean Chrétien.

1994

Cannon worked in private industry as vice-president of Unitel; now AT&T Canada Corp. during the AT&T takeover of the Canadian firm; and in other concerns between 1994 and 2001 primarily in the field of information technologies.

Cannon then remarried; and took an interest in Quebec local politics building a new constituency.

2000

Although Cannon and his family have historically supported the federal Liberals, he switched to the Conservative Party of Canada in the early 2000s.

At the time, his switch to the Conservative Party raised eyebrows among the political class and the media, which generally attributed the move to his inability to make an impression with the Liberal Party.

2001

Cannon was elected as councillor for Gatineau City Council in 2001, representing Hull's Val-Tétreau District, under mayor Yves Ducharme.

In 2001, Cannon was appointed to the Board of the World Commerce Institute, and then as president and general manager of AmeriContact for the Quebec City Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.

2002

He served as president of the Société de Transport de l'Outaouais from January 2002 to November 2005, while at the same time he was appointed president of the Association du transport urbain du Québec.

He had an especial sympathy for solving transport problems in Gatineau by road building rather than public transit approaches.

During his mandate, the STO developed a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) project called "Rapibus", that has since been completed.

His association and ownership of Groupe Cannon and Associates, a consulting company in telecommunications, has received little attention, and this ownership is expected to be put in a blind trust as is usual in federal politics.

Cannon travelled extensively in Europe and the Americas both in and out of public life.

2005

On September 16, 2005, he was named deputy chief of staff and deputy executive director of the Conservative Party.

He was also named as Quebec lieutenant to party leader Stephen Harper.

2006

In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport.

He successfully ran as a Conservative candidate in the riding of Pontiac in the 2006 federal election, beating incumbent Liberal M.P. David Smith.

Winning with 33.68% of the vote, Cannon gained support from traditional Liberal voters.

On February 6, 2006, he was sworn in as Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.

This portfolio includes Transport Canada, Infrastructure Canada, the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada and 16 Crown corporations.

2008

On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

2011

He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat.

2012

He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012, and he served in that position until September 2017.

Cannon is the son of government lawyer Louis Cannon and Quebec television broadcast pioneer Rosemary "Posie" Power, and the grandson of Lucien Cannon and Charles Gavan Power.

He is also the grand-nephew of Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, a long-time Liberal politician and Supreme Court judge.

He is the great-grandson of Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, defender of Louis Riel and former Senior Minister in Laurier's cabinet.

He is of Irish and French Canadian descent.

The extended Cannon family has had strong regional and national political influence in Canada for over a century and is considered to be influential as one of Canada's hereditary ruling class families, members having served in positions as lawyers, judges, Supreme Court judges, senators, ministers of defence, solicitors general, and members of parliament.

They have had large influence in the national resource industries, as "barons" in the lumber industry particularly, as well as in broadcasting.

The most famous member of the family was Cannon's maternal grandfather, Charles "Chubby" Power, a confidante and Minister of National Defence for Air to Governor General John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

Cannon grew up fluently bilingual; his father was francophone while his mother was anglophone.

He also grew up alongside his older brother, Françis Cannon.

He was educated at French speaking public junior and high schools.