Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Ghislain Maltais | |
Office5: | Canadian Senator from Shawinegan |
Term Start5: | January 6, 2012 |
Term End5: | April 22, 2019 |
Nominator5: | Stephen Harper |
Appointer5: | David Johnston |
Predecessor5: | Lucie Pépin (2011) |
Successor5: | Tony Loffreda |
Office11: | Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saguenay |
Term Start11: | June 20, 1983 |
Term End11: | September 12, 1994 |
Predecessor11: | Lucien Lessard (1982) |
Successor11: | Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon |
Birth Date: | 22 April 1944 |
Birth Place: | Sacré-Coeur, Quebec, Canada |
Party: | Conservative (federal) Quebec Liberal (provincial) |
Ghislain Maltais (born April 22, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Senate of Canada from January 6, 2012 to April 22, 2019 as a Conservative representing the Senate division of Shawinegan (Quebec).
He was born in Sacré-Coeur, Quebec and studied at the Université du Québec à Rimouski.
Maltais was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1981 Quebec election, but won a by-election on June 20, 1983. He was a member of the Quebec National Assembly representing Saguenay from 1983 until 1994, when he did not run for re-election.[1] He was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in Charlevoix.
Prior to being appointed to the Senate by Stephen Harper, Maltais was a political organizer for the Conservative Party of Canada.[2] He worked on contract for the Conservative Party from 2006 to 2007, and has been the director of the Conservative Party in Quebec since 2009.[3]