Grard Pelletier
Grard Pelletier
(
June 21
1919
-
June 22
1997
) worked as a journalist for
Le Devoir
, a French-language newspaper in
Montreal
,
Quebec
. He also spent some time as a member of the Canadian federal government as a member of the
cabinets
of
Prime Ministers
Lester Pearson
and
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
. Pelletier met Trudeau while studying in
France
and worked with him and
Jean Marchand
during the
Asbestos Strike
of 1949 in Quebec. Dubbed the "Three Wise Men" in English and
Les trois colombes
(The three doves) in French, they entered politics at the same time in the
federal election of 1965
. The trio was recruited by Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson to help derail the rising
Quebec separatist
movement He served in various cabinet posts in the Trudeau government until 1975, when he left the Liberal caucus and became Canada's Ambassador to
France
and then Ambassador to the
United Nations
(1981-1984). In 1978 he was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada
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