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Maurice Martel was born on 29 October, 1936, is a Canadian politician (1936–2015). Discover Maurice Martel'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 79 years old?
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Maurice Martel (29 October 1936 – 1 December 2015) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.
Maurice Martel was born in Quebec City on 29 October 1936.
Martel was politically active in his youth, serving as president of the Union Nationale's university students organization in 1962.
He studied pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Montreal, receiving certification in 1963.
In the same year, he opened a drugstore in Sorel.
He also worked as a news editor for the weekly journal, La Voix métropolitaine.
He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1976 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson.
Martel was first elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1966 provincial election, scoring an upset victory over Liberal cabinet minister Gérard Cournoyer in Richelieu.
The Union Nationale won a majority government in this election under Daniel Johnson's leadership, and Martel served for the next four years as a government backbencher.
On December 23, 1969, and was appointed as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Social Affairs.
He was defeated by Claude Simard when the Liberals were returned to office in the 1970 provincial election.
The Union Nationale organization declined in the 1970s, and Martel joined the Parti Québécois in 1974.
He was returned to the National Assembly in the 1976 election as the PQ formed its first majority government under René Lévesque.
He served again as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 to 1979, and later served as assistant to the Minister of Public Works and Supply (1979–1984) and the Minister of External Trade (1984).
Martel was appointed to Levesque's cabinet as Minister of Revenue on December 20, 1984, as part of a larger shuffle that some believed was intended as an appeal to small-town Quebec.
In April 1985, he announced that the Quebec Lottery and Racing Board would be authorized to license arcades and conduct criminal background checks on their owners.
He was retained as Revenue Minister when Pierre-Marc Johnson succeeded Levesque as Premier of Quebec in 1985, but was defeated by Liberal candidate Albert Khelfa in the 1985 provincial election as the Liberals were again returned to office.
He formally stepped down from cabinet with the rest of the Johnson administration on December 12, 1985.
Martel returned to his pharmacy practice after leaving political life.
In 1991, he was president of Sorel's 350th anniversary celebrations.
He died on 1 December 2015, at the age of 79.