QUEBEC MEMBER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1942, Page 4

QUEBEC MEMBER

IN CANADIAN CABINET.

RECENT ADJUSTMENTS

OTTAWA, October 7.

The lion Alphonse Fournier, member for Hull, Quebec, has been appointed Minister of Public Works; MajorGeneral L. R. la Fleche has been appointed Minister of National Air Services; the Hon. Ernest Bertrand, member for the Laurier Division, Montreal, has been appointed Minister of Fisheries. The Hon. J. T. Thorson, K.C., former Minister of National War Services, has been appointed President of the Exchequer Court of Canada. The Hon. J. E. Michaud, former Minister of Fisheries, becomes Minister of Transport. Quebec representation in the Dominion Cabinet is now at full strength, with five Ministers with portfolio in place of four with and one without portfolio as in the original line-up. The Hon Thomas Vien, member for Laurier, Outremont, has been appointed to the Senate. Major-General la Fleche served with the 22nd Battalion in the last war. He was so badly wounded in fighting round Mount Sorel in France in. 1916 that for a time he was left for dead. He was awarded the D.S.O. and French Legion of Hoour. In 1930 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defence and subsequently Military Attache, Canadian Legation, Paris. When France fell in 1940 he returned to Canada and became Associate Deputy Minister of National War Services.

The Hon. Alphonse Fournier, Liberal Member for Hull County, Quebec, was born at Mathuen, Mass. He came to Canada in 1904, was educated at the Laval Normal School, Quebec, and the University of Montreal. He frequently has acted as Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons. He is chairman of the House of Commons War Expenditures Committee. The Hon. Ernest Bertrand was born in Somerset, Quebec. He was educated at the University of Montreal and for seven years served as Crown Prosecutor in Montreal. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1935 and again in 1940. The Hon. Thomas Vien was first elected to the House of Commons in 1917 and was chosen Deputy Speaker in 1940. In the Senate he will co-oper-ate with Senator James H. King, who succeeded the late Senator R. Dandurand as Government leader.