Pat Carney

Pat Carney
President of the Treasury Board
In office
March 31, 1988 – December 7, 1988
Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
Preceded byDon Mazankowski
Succeeded byDoug Lewis (acting)
Minister for International Trade
In office
June 30, 1986 – March 30, 1988
Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
Preceded byJames Kelleher
Succeeded byJohn Crosbie
Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources
In office
September 17, 1984 – June 29, 1986
Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
Preceded byGerald Regan
Succeeded byMarcel Masse
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of Parliament
for Vancouver Centre
In office
April 14, 1980 – October 1, 1988
Preceded byArt Phillips
Succeeded byKim Campbell
Canadian Senator
from British Columbia
In office
August 30, 1990 – January 31, 2008
Nominated byBrian Mulroney
Appointed byRay Hnatyshyn
Preceded byNancy Bell (1989)
Personal details
Born
Patricia Dora Carney

(1935-05-26)May 26, 1935
Shanghai, China
DiedJuly 25, 2023(2023-07-25) (aged 88)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Political partyConservative (2003–2023)
Other political
affiliations
Progressive Conservative (1979–2003)
ProfessionPolitician, journalist
CommitteesChair, Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources (1994–1996)

Patricia Dora Carney[1] PC CM (May 26, 1935 – July 25, 2023) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of parliament from 1980 to 1988 and as a Senator from 1990 to 2008.

A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, she first ran for the House of Commons of Canada during the 1979 Canadian federal election, but was defeated. She ran again in the election the following year and won, representing the district of Vancouver Centre. After winning a second term in the 1984 elections, she held three cabinet positions under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: minister of Energy, Mines and Resources from 1984 to 1986, minister of International Trade from 1986 to 1988 and President of the Treasury Board for eight months in 1988. She was the first woman named to each of these three major economic cabinet positions.[2] She did not seek a third term during the next federal election in 1988, and was succeeded by future prime minister Kim Campbell. In 1990, Mulroney appointed her to the Senate, where she served until her resignation in 2008.

  1. ^ "Patricia CARNEY". Obituaries. Vancouver Sun. August 19, 2023. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  2. ^ Mickleburgh, Rod (August 12, 2023). "Progressive Conservative politician Pat Carney helped keep abortion out of the Criminal Code". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 23, 2024.