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Luc Letellier de Saint-Just,
PC (
May 12 1820 –
January 28 1881) was a
Canadian politician. He also served as
lieutenant-governor of
Quebec (
1876–
1879).
A
notary by training, Letellier belonged to an old and prominent family. In 1851, he was elected in a by-election to the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada as a supporter of
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. He was defeated in a general election a few months later by his rival
Jean-Charles Chapais. In 1860, Letellier won election to the
legislative council of the united province and, in 1863, he was appointed minister of agriculture in the
Reform -
rouge Cabinet of
Joint Premiers John Sandfield Macdonald and
Antoine-Aimé Dorion. The government fell the next year, however, in favour of a
Tory –
Parti bleu administration.
Letellier opposed
Canadian Confederation prior to 1867, but accepted it once it became a reality. He was appointed by
royal charter as a charter member of the
Canadian Senate when it was created in 1867. He sat as a "Nationalist
Liberal", and was
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1867 until the
1872 election when the Liberals took power under
Alexander Mackenzie. Letellier became
Leader of the Government in the Senate and
Minister of Agriculture in Mackenzie's
Cabinet. He had also attempted to concurrently win a seat in the
Quebec legislative assembly, but was defeated in his attempts in
1869 and
1871 to win election.
In 1876, Mackenzie appointed Letellier to the position of lieutenant-governor of Quebec. As lieutenant governor, he dismissed the government of
Conservative Quebec Premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville on March 1, 1878, despite the fact that the government enjoyed a 20 seat majority in the
Quebec legislative assembly and a two-to-one majority in the
legislative council. Letellier justified the dismissal on charges that the government was acting incompotently and corruptly on the matter of
railway legislation. He also argued that if the de Boucherville government hadn't made concessions to "rings" of interest within the legislature on the issue, it would lose the legislature's support. De Boucherville called the move a "
coup d'etat", and complained to the
Governor General of Canada. Both houses of the Quebec legislature passed motions of censure against the lieutenant-governor.
When the federal
Conservatives under Sir
John A. Macdonald defeated the federal
Liberals in the
1878 election, the new
federal Cabinet tried to have Letellier dismissed as lieutenant-governor of Quebec. The
Governor General,
the Marquess of Lorne, referred the matter to the
Colonial Secretary in
London who advised him to follow the advice of his ministers. Letellier was dismissed.
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