The Right Honourable Jean-Luc Pepin PC CC
Pépin,c. 1968
Minister of Transport
In office 3 March 1980 – 11 August 1983
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Don Mazankowski
Succeeded by	Lloyd Axworthy
Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce
In office 1 April 1969 – 26 November 1972
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Alastair Gillespie
Minister of Trade and Commerce
In office 6 July 1968 – 31 March 1969
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Charles Drury
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Acting 30 March 1968 – 19 April 1968
Prime Minister	Lester B. Pearson
Preceded by	Robert Winters
Succeeded by	Charles Drury
Minister of Labour
In office 20 April 1968 – 5 July 1968
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	John Robert Nicholson
Succeeded by	Bryce Mackasey
Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
In office 1 October 1966 – 5 July 1968
Prime Minister	Lester B. Pearson Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Joe Greene
Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys
In office 18 December 1965 – 30 September 1966
Prime Minister	Lester B. Pearson
Preceded by	John Watson MacNaught
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Minister without portfolio
In office 7 July 1965 – 17 December 1965
Prime Minister	Lester B. Pearson
Member of Parliament forOttawa—Carleton
In office 22 May 1979 – 3 September 1984
Preceded by	Jean Pigott
Succeeded by	Barry Turner
Member of Parliament forDrummond (Drummond—Arthabaska; 1963–1968)
In office 8 April 1963 – 29 October 1972
Preceded by	David Ouellet
Succeeded by	Jean-Marie Boisvert
Personal details
Born	(1924-11-01)1 November 1924 Drummondville,Quebec, Canada
Died	5 September 1995(1995-09-05) (aged 70) Ottawa,Ontario, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Sheila-Mary Brock-Smith ​ ​ (m. 1952)​
Children	2
Education	University of Ottawa
Profession	Professor political commentator

Jean-Luc PépinPC CC (French:[pepɛ̃]; November 15, 1924 – September 5, 1995) was aCanadian academic, politician andCabinet minister.

Pepin was a political scienceprofessor at theUniversity of Ottawa when he was first elected to theHouse of Commons of Canada in the1963 election as aLiberalMember of Parliament (MP) fromQuebec.

From 1965 to 1972, he served in the cabinets ofPrime MinistersLester B. Pearson andPierre Trudeau in various capacities, including Minister of Mines and Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce overseeing the decision to have Canada adopt themetric system.

He lost hisseat in the1972 election, and retired from public life until 1975 when Trudeau appointed him to chair the Anti-Inflation Board.

In 1977, he and formerPremier of OntarioJohn Robarts were appointed to head the "Task Force on Canadian Unity". This task force was created by the federal government as a response to the election of theParti Québécois, which seekspolitical independence for Quebec in the1976 provincial election.

The task force issued a report in 1979 that recommended entrenching language rights in theCanadian Constitution, and for the reduction of federal powers in all areas but economic management. The Task Force also recommended the replacement of theSenate of Canada with a "Council of the Federation" whose members would be appointed by provincial governments, and to grant the provinces a say in appointments to theSupreme Court of Canada. Most of these recommendations were rejected by the Government of Canada, and did not make their way into the new Constitution that was enacted in 1982.

After a seven-year absence, Pepin returned to the House of Commons in the1979 election. When the Liberals returned to power after the1980 election, he becameMinister of Transport until 12 August 1983. In that position he was responsible for

• the drastic 1981 passenger rail service cuts (from which Canadian passenger rail never recovered);
• abolition of theCrowsnest Pass rates;^[1]
• the National Ports Policy, enunciated in theHarbour Commissions Act.^[2]

Later, he became aMinister of State to the Department of External Affairs andMinister responsible for La Francophonie.

Following heart surgery, he retired from politics in 1984, and returned to academia as a fellow at theUniversity of Ottawa's Institute on Public Policy.

In 1977, he was made a Companion of theOrder of Canada. He was bestowed the title TheRight Honourable in 1992.

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

• Pepin, Jean-Luc, 1924–. National ports policy = Politique portuaire nationale / Jean-Luc Pepin. – [Ottawa] : Minister of Transport = Ministre des transports, 1981.

There is a Jean-Luc Pepinfonds atLibrary and Archives Canada.^[3]

• Order of Canada Citation
• Jean-Luc Pépin – Parliament of Canada biography
• Jean-Luc Pepin atThe Canadian Encyclopedia

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