INDEPTH: ERIC KIERANS
Eric Kierans: Timeline
CBC News Online | May 10, 2004
Eric Kierans speaks during a news conference in Montreal, Jan. 7, 1973.
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Former Liberal cabinet minister Eric Kierans has died at the age of 90.
Kierans was a Trudeau cabinet minister and a former federal Liberal
party leadership candidate who ran against Pierre Trudeau in 1968 and
lost. He later became postmaster general and minister of communications.
Kierans was also a political commentator for CBC Radio's Morningside,
appearing on the show each week with Peter Gzowski to debate federal
politics with the late Dalton Camp and Stephen Lewis.
Feb. 2, 1914: Born in Montreal.
1935: Receives a BA from Loyola College (later merged with Sir George Williams University to form Concordia University).
Nov. 12, 1938: Marries Teresa Whelan.
1942-46: Serves in the Victoria Rifles of Canada with the rank of lieutenant.
1947-51: Does graduate research at McGill University.
1953-60: Teaches commerce and finance at McGill and serves as head of McGill's School of Commerce.
1960-63: Serves as president of the Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges.
September 1963: Elected to the Quebec legislature in a byelection.
1963-65: Appointed minister of revenue for Quebec.
1965-66: Serves as minister of health for Quebec.
1966: Re-elected to the Quebec legislature.
1966-68: Serves as president of the Quebec Liberal Federation.
1967: Publishes Challenge of Confidence: Kierans on Canada.
1968: Runs unsuccessfully for the leadership of the federal Liberal party.
June 1968: Elected to the House of Commons in the general election.
July 1968: Appointed Canada's postmaster general and minister responsible for the Department of Communications.
May 1969: Appointed minister of communications.
April 29, 1971: Resigns from cabinet over differences with Prime Minister Trudeau over economic policy.
1972-1980: Teaches economics at McGill University.
1982-1997: Appears on the CBC Radio show Morningside as part of a regular political panel with Dalton Camp and Stephen Lewis.
1983: Gives a series of five Massey Lectures on globalism and the nation state.
1995: Appointed officer of the Order of Canada.
2001: Publishes Remembering, his memoirs.
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 One week before the October 25, 1993 federal election, host Peter Gzowski presents the Kierans-Camp-Lewis political panel on CBC Radio's 'Morningside'. The panel tackles Quebec sovereignty and the decline of Canadian federalism, especially the failure of traditional parties to represent modern public opinion. (RealAudio runs 11:27)
From May 1, 1984, the Kierans-Camp-Lewis panel on CBC Radio's 'Morningside' program have an eerily prescient discussion about global terrorism, triggered by a U.S. directive on terrorism following events in Lebanon: six weeks after a U.S. diplomat was kidnapped, six months after 241 U.S. troops were killed by a truck bomb, and one year after 63 people died at when the U.S. embassy was bombed. (RealAudio runs 13:55)
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