It was on this date in 1924 that Martial Asselin, who would go onto to become a mainstay of Progressive Conservative politics in Quebec, was born. He was first elected to the House after running under John Diefenbaker’s banner in 1958, and was later appointed to Dief’s cabinet. Defeated in the 1962 general election, he would re-gain his seat in 1965 and was re-elected in 1968.
In 1972 Asselin was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and he served in the Red Chamber until 1990. Asselin was then appointed Lt.-Governor of Quebec by PM Brian Mulroney, and served in that office through the 1995 Quebec Referendum. In 1992 as part of Canada 125 celebrations, he was granted in the honourific “Right Honourable” as part of Canada 125 celebrations. Asselin passed into history in 2013.is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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