Joseph-Philippe Guay

The Honourable
Joseph-Philippe Guay
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for St. Boniface
In office
1968–1978
Preceded byRoger Teillet
Succeeded byJack Hare
Senator for St. Boniface, Manitoba
In office
1978–1990
Appointed byPierre Trudeau
Personal details
Born(1915-10-04)October 4, 1915
St-Vital, Manitoba
DiedJuly 30, 2001(2001-07-30) (aged 85)
Political partyLiberal

Joseph-Philippe Guay, PC (October 4, 1915 – July 30, 2001) was a Canadian parliamentarian, serving as a member of the Liberal Party.

Born in St. Vital, Manitoba, Guay was an alderman and mayor of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba before turning to federal politics. He won the St. Boniface Liberal nomination in the buildup to the 1968 federal election over the sitting member, cabinet minister Roger-Joseph Teillet. Guay campaigned on the fact that he, unlike Teillet, had supported Pierre Elliott Trudeau on every ballot of the 1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention.[1] He was returned in the general election, and was re-elected in 1972 and 1974.

He held numerous parliamentary functions including: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport (1972–1974), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Regional Economic Expansion (1974–1975), Chief Government Whip (1975–1977), Minister of State (Multiculturalism) (1977), Minister without Portfolio (1976–1977), and Minister of National Revenue (1977–1978).

In 1978, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of St. Boniface, Manitoba. He retired on his 75th birthday in 1990.

In 1957, he was knighted as a member of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XII.

Electoral history

1974 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Joseph-Philippe Guay 21,853 42.6 -1.9
Progressive Conservative Jack Hare 18,604 36.2 +10.1
New Democratic Jim Garwood 10,364 20.2 -7.5
Social Credit Thomas L. Cruickshank 536 1.0 -0.2
Total valid votes 51,357 100.0
1972 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Joseph-Philippe Guay 22,200 44.4 -7.3
New Democratic Joseph F. Sherwood 13,857 27.7 +0.6
Progressive Conservative Peter Hillcoff 13,033 26.1 +7.2
Social Credit Gilles J. Ouellet 643 1.3 -0.9
Independent Russ Maley 241 0.5
Total valid votes 49,974 100.0
1968 Canadian federal election: Saint Boniface—Saint Vital
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Joseph-Philippe Guay 22,032 51.7 +9.9
New Democratic Harry Shafransky 11,566 27.2 +0.4
Progressive Conservative Vaughan L. Baird 8,048 18.9 -12.6
Social Credit Georges Forest 949 2.2
Total valid votes 42,595 100.0

References

  1. ^ The final vote was: Guay 1341, Teillet 1244. See "Liberals' only Prairie MP loses riding nomination", Toronto Star, May 23, 1968, p. 1. The nomination contest is mentioned in Ian Stewart, Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 2009, p. 9.