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Ernest Lapointe,
PC (
October 6 1876 –
November 26 1941) was a
Canadian politician.
Lapointe was a practicing lawyer in
Quebec City and was appointed Crown Prosecutor for
Kamouraska before entering politics.
He was first elected by acclamation to the
Canadian House of Commons in an 1898 by-election as the
Liberal MP for
Kamouraska and was re-elected in 1908, 1911 and 1917. He resigned his seat in 1919 in order to run in the
Quebec East seat vacated by the death of Sir
Wilfrid Laurier.
In
1921,
William Lyon Mackenzie King appointed Lapointe to his first
Cabinet as Minister of Marine and Fisheries. In
1924 he became
Minister of Justice and served in that position in successive Liberal cabinets until his death in
1941. Lapointe served as King's
Quebec lieutenant and was one of the most important ministers in Cabinet. He shared King's vision of Canadian autonomy from Britain and chaired the Canadian delegation to the
Imperial Conference of
1926 that led to the drafting of the subsequent
Balfour Declaration that raised the status of
dominions to one of equality with
Britain and eventually led to the
Statute of Westminster 1931. In the late
1930s, Lapointe
disallowed several Acts passed by the
Alberta Social Credit government of
William Aberhart. However, he failed to disallow the
Padlock Act passed by
Maurice Duplessis fearing that doing so would only aid the
Union Nationale government.
Lapointe helped draft Mackenzie King's policy against
conscription for overseas service in
1939 and his campaigning helped defeat the Duplessis government in
1939.
His son,
Hugues Lapointe, was also a parliamentarian and
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
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