{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1943)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = Marcel Danis | honorific_suffix = {{postnom|PC|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | constituency_MP = [[Verchères—Les Patriotes|Verchères]] | parliament = Canadian | majority = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by adding a number--> | term_start = September 4, 1984 | term_end = September 8, 1993 | predecessor = [[Bernard Loiselle]] | successor = [[Stéphane Bergeron]] | birth_date = October 22, 1943 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]] | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = | partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Lawyer | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | blank1 = | data1 = | blank2 = | data2 = | blank3 = | data3 = | blank4 = | data4 = | blank5 = | data5 = <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = | military_blank1 = | military_data1 = | military_blank2 = | military_data2 = | military_blank3 = | military_data3 = | military_blank4 = | military_data4 = | military_blank5 = | military_data5 = }} '''Marcel Danis''', {{postnom|PC}} (born October 22, 1943) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[university]] administrator, lawyer and former politician.
Danis completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science at [[Loyola College (Montreal)|Loyola College]] (since renamed [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]]) in 1965, a Master of Arts in political science at [[Fordham University]] in 1966, studied constitutional law and political science at the [[Université de Paris]] from 1966 to 1968, and completed a Bachelor of Civil Law at the [[Université de Montréal]] in 1971. His father was a judge of the [[Superior Court of Quebec]], and his brother, [[Jean-Claude Danis]], is a judge at the [[Commission des lésions professionelles]] in Montreal.
He joined the faculty of Loyola College in 1968 as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and has taught since that time. He entered politics as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 federal election]], but was defeated in the [[Riding (division)|riding]] of [[Saint-Hyacinthe (electoral district)|Saint-Hyacinthe]], [[Quebec]]. During [[Joe Clark]]'s leadership convention candidacy in 1983, Danis was his chief Quebec organizer.
He ran again in the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 federal election]] and entered the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as the Tory [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Verchères—Les Patriotes|Verchères]]. Danis was appointed Deputy [[Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada]], and served in that position until 1990 when he was appointed by [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Mulroney]] to the [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]] as [[Minister of State (Canada)|Minister of State]] for Fitness and Sport, and Minister of State for Youth. He served concurrently as deputy government [[House Leader]].
In 1991, Danis was promoted to the position of [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Minister of Labour]]. He left Cabinet with Mulroney's retirement in 1993, and was not a candidate in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 election]]. He left politics and returned to academia. He became vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia. In 1996, he became vice-rector of the university, and Secretary General in 1998. In 2005, he was named vice-president of external relations and secretary-general.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.concordia.ca/administration/011307.shtml|title=Marcel Danis leaving the position of Vice-President, External Relations, and Secretary-General|date=June 22, 2007|work=Concordia University News and Events|access-date=2009-10-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714164114/http://news.concordia.ca/administration/011307.shtml|archive-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref>
In 2013, he was hired to defend [[Michael Applebaum]], the former mayor of Montreal, on corruption charges.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/news/Former+federal+represent+Applebaum/8543680/story.html "Former MP to represent Applebaum"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622073424/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Former+federal+represent+Applebaum/8543680/story.html |date=2013-06-22 }}. ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]'', June 18, 2013.</ref>
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==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1889}} {{Mulroney Ministry}} {{CA-Ministers of Labour}}
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