Stéphane Dion

Stéphane Dion    ( diplomat,  deep state operative)
Born	Stéphane Maurice Dion 28 September 1955  Quebec City,  Quebec,  Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	•  Laval University •  Sciences Po
Children	1 daughter
Spouse	Janine Krieber
Member of	Arthur F. Burns Fellowship/Trustees, Trudeau Government
Party	Liberal Party of Canada
Canadian diplomat who attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Canada/President of the Privy Council  Canada/Ambassador/France In office 1 June 2022 - Present Also to Monaco  Canada/Ambassador/Germany  In office May 1, 2017 - 1 June 2022 Bilderberg 1998  Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe In office May 1, 2017 - Present  Canada/Minister of Foreign Affairs In office November 4, 2015 - January 10, 2017 Succeeded by Chrystia Freeland  Canada/Leader of the Opposition  In office December 2, 2006 - December 10, 2008  Canada/Liberal Party/Leader In office December 2, 2006 - December 10, 2008  Canada/Minister of the Environment In office July 20, 2004 - February 6, 2006  Canada/Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs In office January 25, 1996 - December 11, 2003  Canada/President of the Privy Council In office January 25, 1996 - December 11, 2003 Bilderberg 1998  Member of the Canadian Parliament for Saint-Laurent In office March 25, 1996 - February 6, 2017

Stéphane Maurice Dion is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician. He attended the 1998 Bilderberg meeting.

Background

His father was Léon Dion, was a Quebec academic and staunch federalist. Consulted many times by several Quebec politicians, foremost among whom is Robert Bourassa, he acquired the nickname of "confessor". His mother, Denyse (née Kormann), was a real-estate agent born in Paris, France, and Stéphane holds dual citizenship.

Education

He studied political science at Université Laval in the department co-founded by his father. Dion spent four years in Paris with his wife, studying public administration under the supervision of noted sociologist Michel Crozier.

Marriage

While studying, he married Janine Krieber, a Canadian political scientist, studying "terrorism" and international security. She later taught political science and sociology at Royal Military College Saint-Jean.

Career

Before entering politics, Dion was a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal from 1984 until 1996. His research focused on Canadian federalism and public administration. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., during a 1990–91 sabbatical leave.

Originally supporting Québec independence, after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, Dion converted to federalism, as he later recounted to journalist Michel Vastel, occurred as he was preparing for a presentation in Washington:

I sat down at my computer at 11 o'clock, and, at noon, I had a text that was so interesting that the Americans wanted to publish it. It was on that day that I realized I was truly a federalist.

Throughout his tenure in government, Dion held a number of portfolios. He was first named Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs by Prime Minister Chrétien in 1996, following the aftermath of the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum. His reference question to the Supreme Court of Canada, produced Reference Re Secession of Quebec and his Clarity Act, which provided guidelines for subsequent referendums.

He returned to the backbench in 2003 when Paul Martin became the prime minister. After the 2004 election however, he returned to Cabinet as Minister of Environment, where he was in charge of implementing the Kyoto Protocol and chaired United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change when Montreal hosted the UN climate conference in 2005.

The Liberal government lost the 2006 election and Martin resigned as leader. Dion campaigned to replace him and subsequently won the party leadership election. Dion ran on an environmental platform in the 2008 federal election, but was defeated by the Conservatives led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in one of the Liberals' worst electoral showings.

After a subsequent parliamentary dispute, he was replaced as leader by Michael Ignatieff. Dion continued to sit as the member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent. In 2015, the Liberal Party returned to power and Dion was named Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, until 2017, when he left politics to become a diplomat.

Dion was Ambassador to Germany and from 2017 until June 2022. He was also appointed special envoy to the European Union. In 2022 he was appointed Canada's Ambassador to France and Monaco while retaining his role as special envoy to the European Union.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1998	14 May 1998	17 May 1998	Scotland Turnberry	The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
GLOBSEC/Forum/2017	26 May 2017	28 May 2017	Slovakia Bratislava
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." Slightly over 1/3 of them have pages.

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