{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}} | office2 = [[Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs]] | office1 = [[Minister of Environment and Climate Change|Minister of the Environment]] | term_start2 = January 4, 1993 | term_end2 = June 24, 1993 | term_start1 = June 25, 1993 | term_end1 = November 3, 1993 | prime_minister2 = [[Brian Mulroney]] | prime_minister1 = [[Kim Campbell]] | governor_general2 = [[Roméo LeBlanc]] | governor_general1 = [[Roméo LeBlanc]] | predecessor1 = [[Jean Charest]] | predecessor2 = [[Pierre Blais]] | successor2 = [[Jean Charest]] '' as Minister of Industry '' | successor1 = [[Sheila Copps]] | riding3 = [[Trois-Rivières (federal electoral district)|Trois-Rivières]] | term_start3 = September 4, 1984 | term_end3 = October 24, 1993 | predecessor3 = [[Claude Lajoie]] | successor3 = [[Yves Rocheleau]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|04|02}} | birth_place = [[Trois-Rivières]], [[Quebec]] | country = Canada | party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] }} '''Pierre H. Vincent''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born April 2, 1955 in [[Trois-Rivières, Quebec]]) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] tax lawyer and former politician.
==Member of Parliament==
Vincent was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 electoral landslide]] that brought [[Brian Mulroney]] and the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]] to power. Vincent, the PC [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Trois-Rivières (federal electoral district)|Trois-Rivières]] served as [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the [[Minister of National Revenue (Canada)|Minister of National Revenue]] from 1984 until 1985; Parliamentary Secretary to the [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Minister of Finance]] from 1985 to 1993, and was also Parliamentary Secretary to the [[Deputy Prime Minister of Canada]] from 1991 to 1993.
==Cabinet member==
In January 1993, Vincent was elevated to [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] Mulroney's [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]] as [[Minister of State (Canada)|Minister of State]] for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and [[Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs]]. When [[Kim Campbell]] succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister, she promoted Vincent to [[Minister of the Environment (Canada)|Minister of the Environment]].
He was sworn of the [[Privy Council]] on January 5, 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/hist/1971-2000-eng.htm |title=Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada - Information Resources - Privy Council Office |website=www.pco-bcp.gc.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606054008/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/hist/1971-2000-eng.htm |archive-date=2011-06-06}}</ref>
Both Vincent and the Campbell government were defeated in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 federal election]] and Vincent returned to private life.
==Return in politics==
Both Vincent and former colleague [[Suzanne Duplessis]] managed the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] campaign in Quebec in the [[2008 Canadian federal election|2008 federal election]].<ref>[http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080904/CPACTUALITES/80903297/6488/CPACTUALITES Harper recrute des nationalistes, Joël-Denis Bellavance, La Presse, September 4, 2008]</ref>
==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15730}}
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