Yves Bérubé
| Yves Bérubé | |
|---|---|
| 3rd Member of the Quebec National Assembly for Matane | |
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In office November 15, 1976 – October 16, 1985 |
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| Prime Minister | René Lévesque |
| Preceded by | Marc-Yvan Côté |
| Succeeded by | Claire-Hélène Hovington |
| Majority | 1976: 2684 (11.86%) 1981: 4367 (17.83%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 28, 1940 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | December 5, 1993 (aged 53) Montreal, Quebec |
| Resting place | Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery |
| Political party | Parti Québécois |
| Spouse(s) | Francine Leroux |
| Children | 2 daughters [Sylvie, Dominique] |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Profession | mining engineer, politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Yves Bérubé (March 28, 1940 – December 5, 1993) was a Quebec engineer, politician and multiple-time minister.
Bérubé was born in Montreal. His father was a journalist. He studied at the Collège de Saint-Laurent (the modern Cégep Saint-Laurent), then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1966 with a doctorate in mining engineering. In 1963 (the same year he had obtained his bachelor's degree) he had married Francine Leroux in Montreal.
His career started at the Iron Ore Company of Canada. After obtaining his doctorate, he became assistant, then associate professor at Laval University. During this period, he also taught in France and regularly acted as consultant for several companies and the federal government.
In 1976, he defeated Marc-Yvan Côté and was elected in Matane for the Parti Québécois. He became Minister of Lands and Forests (French: Ministre des Terres et Forêts) as well as Minister of Natural Resources (French: Ministre des Richesses Naturelles), then Minister of Energy and Resources (French: Ministre de l'Énergie et des Ressources) when these two ministries were combined in 1979 (it would become the modern Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife).
He was easily re-elected in the 1981 election. In the new government, he was Minister for Administration (French: Ministre délégué à l'Administration; later Minister for Administrative Reform) and President of the Treasury Board. In the March 1984 cabinet shuffle, he was made Minister of Education, a post he left in December upon the creation of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (resulting from a merger of the existing Ministry of Science and Technology and part of the Ministry of Education).
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