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The Honourable Pierre Pettigrew PC
Pettigrew in 2017
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office July 20, 2004 – February 5, 2006
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Bill Graham
Succeeded by	Peter MacKay
Minister of Health
In office December 12, 2003 – July 19, 2004
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Anne McLellan
Succeeded by	Ujjal Dosanjh
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
In office December 12, 2003 – July 19, 2004
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Stéphane Dion
Succeeded by	Lucienne Robillard
Minister for International Trade
In office August 3, 1999 – December 11, 2003
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Sergio Marchi
Succeeded by	Jim Peterson
Minister of Human Resources Development
In office October 4, 1996 – August 2, 1999
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Doug Young
Succeeded by	Jane Stewart
Minister for International Cooperation
In office January 25, 1996 – October 3, 1996
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Don Boudria
Member of Parliament forPapineau Papineau—Saint-Michel (1996–1997) Papineau—Saint-Denis (1997–2004)
In office March 25, 1996 – January 22, 2006
Preceded by	André Ouellet
Succeeded by	Vivian Barbot
Personal details
Born	Pierre Stewart Pettigrew (1951-04-18)April 18, 1951 (age 74) Quebec City,Quebec, Canada
Party	Liberal
Alma mater	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Balliol College, Oxford
Profession	Businessman

Pierre Stewart PettigrewPC (born April 18, 1951) is aCanadian politician and businessman.

Born inQuebec City, Pettigrew has aBachelor of Arts degree inphilosophy from theUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières (1972) and aMaster of Philosophy degree ininternational relations from theUniversity of Oxford (1976) where he studied atBalliol College.

Prior to seeking elected office, Pettigrew was director of the Political Committee,NATO Assembly, inBrussels, from 1976 to 1978, executive assistant to the Leader of theQuebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1981 and Foreign Policy Advisor toPierre Trudeau,Prime Minister of Canada, from 1981 to 1984. Pettigrew was vice-president of Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche inMontreal from 1985 to 1995, where he acted as a business consultant to companies with dealings in international markets.

Pettigrew served in theLiberalcabinet ofJean Chrétien in various capacities and in the government ofPaul Martin as Canada'sMinister of Foreign Affairs. In the2006 federal election he was defeated as theMember of Parliament for the Montreal-area electoral district ofPapineau.

Following the1995 Quebec referendum Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was committed to bringing in more star candidates from Quebec to his cabinet. He thus appointed Pettigrew andStéphane Dion to cabinet, even before they were in the house. Pettigrew previously ran for parliament in the1984 federal election in the riding ofKamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup but was defeated by less than 7,000 votes by theProgressive Conservative candidate,André Plourde.

André Ouellet was made head ofCanada Post, opening the riding ofPapineau—Saint-Michel. Pettigrew was elected to Parliament in a March 25, 1996 by-election. He was re-elected in 1997 and 2000, representing the new riding ofPapineau—Saint-Denis. In 1996 he becameMinister for International Cooperation andMinister responsible for La Francophonie.

From 1996 to 1999, he also served asMinister of Human Resources Development. In that time, the Department ofHuman Resources Development represented more than half of theCanadian federal budget. Pettigrew negotiated with the provinces and the territories theNational Child Benefit, the most important social program sinceCanada Pension Plan (1966), a 10 billions program by now. He implemented the newEmployment Insurance Program which became balanced after years of deficit despite lowering the premiums. Under his watch, however, ineffective accounting practices at HRDC allegedly left millions of dollars unaccounted for. Pettigrew was fortunate to have been shuffled to the portfolio of International Trade. His successorJane Stewart took the brunt of the "billion-dollar boondoggle" scandal.

AsMinister for International Trade, he promotedfree trade and always characterized theNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as "a tremendous success".^[1] and a model to expand upon. He was a key participant in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks, claiming that Canada's main goal of lowering agricultural subsidies would be of great benefit to the world's poorer nations. At the 2003 WTO Ministerial Conference inCancún, Pettigrew played an aggressive role as chair of theworking group on theSingapore issues, controversial sectors of proposed liberalization which were bitterly opposed by some developing nation delegates, not to mention masses of protesters outside of the gates where the meetings were held. He also championed theFree Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and in the period leading up to theSummit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, he spearheaded a campaign to allay growing public suspicion of the deal by promising the eventual release of the draft negotiating texts. After a delay due to translating the texts into the Portuguese language, the texts were made publicly available July 3, 2001. Throughout his mandate at International Trade, he was heavily embroiled in theUS - Canada softwood lumber dispute.

On December 12, 2003, he was appointedMinister of Health andMinister of Intergovernmental Affairs by newly appointed Prime Minister Paul Martin. On July 20, 2004, he moved to his long-desired portfolio of Foreign Affairs minister, replacingBill Graham.

On April 26, 2005, the Montreal newspaperLe Devoir reported that the trilingual Pettigrew, who speaksEnglish,French andSpanish, would leave Canadian politics to serve as theSecretary General of the Organization of American States.^[2] The newspaper suggested that Pettigrew had sufficient support among OAS members to win the job, although officially Canada supported the election ofLuis Ernesto Derbez ofMexico in the2005 OAS Secretary General election.

Pettigrew has long been rumoured to be a possible leadership candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada or as a leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

In 1999, Pettigrew wrotePour une politique de la confiance (English translation:The New Politics of Confidence), a book on globalization and the art of governing.

On June 17, 2005, an incident occurred at a conference in Montreal regarding the subject ofHaiti, at one point during the conference, Pettigrew was splashed with a red substance byYves Engler, a political activist associated with the groupHaiti Action Montreal. As Engler threw the red substance on Pettigrew, he shouted "Pettigrew lies, Haitians die". Engler claimed that the red paint was meant to symbolize the blood on the hands of the Canadian state due to Canada's involvement in Haiti. Pettigrew told police that he wanted full charges pressed against Engler. However, a couple of days later, Pettigrew suddenly decided to drop all charges.

Despite growing pressure, Pettigrew consistently stated that Canada would "stay the course" in Haiti.^[3]

On December 28, 2005, Pettigrew was the victim of an attempted mugging while he was waiting for a train in the Montreal subway station. The accused, Frederick Estelle, has been charged with aggravated theft.^[4][5]

At the2004 election, Pettigrew was nearly defeated by aBloc Québécois challenger – only the second time that the Liberals' hold on the riding had been seriously threatened. At the2006 election, Pettigrew was defeated by Bloc challengerVivian Barbot.

On October 23, 2006,Deloitte Canada's Managing Partner and Chief Executive Alan MacGibbon announced that Pierre Pettigrew had been appointed as Executive Advisor for the firm's international activities. Pettigrew is a member of theInter-American Dialogue.^[6]

He was awarded an honoraryDoctor of Laws degree by theUniversity of Warwick in July 2008.

In August 2016, Pettigrew was appointed special envoy on theComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and theEuropean Union.^[7]

He currently resides in Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

Note: Canadian Alliance vote compared to the vote Felemegos received as a Progressive Conservative candidate.

• PETTIGREW, Hon. Pierre Stewart,Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
• Indymedia article about the red paint incident
• Pierre Pettigrew – Parliament of Canada biography
• Pettigrew and Haiti

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