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Stéphane Maurice Dion is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who served as the Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco from 2022 to 2025 and special envoy to the European Union from 2017 to 2025. He previously was leader of the Opposition and leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008. He served in cabinets as intergovernmental affairs minister (1996–2003), environment minister…
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Born 28 September 1955 · Q366456
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believe that the right to declare secession unilaterally does not belong to constituent entities of a democratic country such as Canada.
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“lives that would result from secession, a simple majority that could disappear in the face of difficulties would be insufficient to ensure the political legitimacy of the sovereigntist project. In regard to the territorial integrity of Quebec, Dion retorts that”
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“believe that the right to declare secession unilaterally does not belong to constituent entities of a democratic country such as Canada.”
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“an activist for the separatist cause”
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Career landmark: ambassador of Canada to France (2022).
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Career landmark: ambassador of Canada to Germany (2017–2022).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada (2015–2017).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2015–2017).
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The Liberal Party returned to power and Dion was named Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, serving until 2017, when he left politics to enter the diplomatic service
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2011–2015).
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Election lost: 2008 federal election.
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2008–2011).
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As part of a measure for cutting greenhouse emissions, Dion called for a carbon price
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Campaign: 2008 federal election.
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“From this defeat, we can learn something and work together as a united party.”
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“On the evidence there is no basis for attributing blame or responsibility to any other Minister of the Chrétien Cabinet [excepting Jean Chrétien and Alfonso Gagliano], since they, like all members of Parliament, were not informed of the initiatives being authorized by Mr. [Jean] Pelletier and their funding from the Unity Reserve.”
Campaign: 2006 Liberal leadership election.
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Career landmark: Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (2006–2008).
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“Everyone is saying target, target. But ... it is to be more than to reach a target. It's to change the economy. It's to have resource productivity, energy efficiency when we know that energy will be the next crisis for the economy of the world.... All my ministries will be green. Maybe I'll make one department of industry and the environment – a department of sustainability. That's not a commitment, but if you want to change the mind, you have to change structure....”
Career landmark: Leader of the Official Opposition (2006–2008).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2006–2008).
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Claimed that Martin's organizers were planning a nomination challenge in Dion's riding
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Career landmark: Minister of the Environment (2004–2006).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2004–2006).
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Published “Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries” in Physical Review Letters — cited 5,251 times.
When Paul Martin became the prime minister and dropped a number of ministers in an effort to disassociate himself from the former Chrétien government
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2000–2004).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1997–2000).
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Defending the legality of a unilateral secession, Dion wrote the first of three open letters to leaders in the sovereignty movement
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Career landmark: President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (1996–2003).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1996–1997).
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Career landmark: Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (1996–2003).
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Following the aftermath of the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum
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“Canada is a country that works better in practice than in theory.”
Dion directed his intellectual inquiry towards an analysis of Quebec nationalism
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Before moving on to the Université de Montréal to assume an assistant professor position
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Under John Turner and only four points ahead of the party's worst ever result in 1867
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And 1979 respectively (his master's thesis presented an analysis of the evolution of Parti Québécois electoral strategies), he and Krieber departed together for France
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“If people are asking why, it”
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Born 1955-09-28.
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On the evidence there is no basis for attributing blame or responsibility to any other Minister of the Chrétien Cabinet [excepting Jean Chrétien and Alfonso Gagliano], since they, like all members of Parliament, were not informed of the initiatives being authorized by Mr. [Jean] Pelletier and their funding from the Unity Reserve.
Everyone is saying target, target. But ... it is to be more than to reach a target. It's to change the economy. It's to have resource productivity, energy efficiency when we know that energy will be the next crisis for the economy of the world.... All my ministries will be green. Maybe I'll make one department of industry and the environment – a department of sustainability. That's not a commitment, but if you want to change the mind, you have to change structure....
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