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{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1943)}}
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'''Marcel Danis''', {{postnom|PC}} (born October 22, 1943) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[university]] administrator, lawyer and former politician.

Danis completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science at [[Loyola College (Montreal)|Loyola College]] (since renamed [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]]) in 1965, a Master of Arts in political science at [[Fordham University]] in 1966, studied constitutional law and political science at the [[Université de Paris]] from 1966 to 1968, and completed a Bachelor of Civil Law at the [[Université de Montréal]] in 1971. His father was a judge of the [[Superior Court of Quebec]], and his brother,  [[Jean-Claude Danis]], is a judge at the [[Commission des lésions professionelles]] in Montreal.

He joined the faculty of Loyola College in 1968 as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and has taught since that time. He entered politics as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 federal election]], but was defeated in the [[Riding (division)|riding]] of [[Saint-Hyacinthe (electoral district)|Saint-Hyacinthe]], [[Quebec]]. During [[Joe Clark]]'s leadership convention candidacy in 1983, Danis was his chief Quebec organizer.

He ran again in the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 federal election]] and entered the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as the Tory [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Verchères—Les Patriotes|Verchères]]. Danis was appointed Deputy [[Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada]], and served in that position until 1990 when he was appointed by [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Mulroney]] to the [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]] as [[Minister of State (Canada)|Minister of State]] for Fitness and Sport, and Minister of State for Youth. He served concurrently as deputy government [[House Leader]].

In 1991, Danis was promoted to the position of [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Minister of Labour]]. He left Cabinet with Mulroney's retirement in 1993, and was not a candidate in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 election]]. He left politics and returned to academia. He became vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia. In 1996, he became vice-rector of the university, and Secretary General in 1998. In 2005, he was named vice-president of external relations and secretary-general.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.concordia.ca/administration/011307.shtml|title=Marcel Danis leaving the position of Vice-President, External Relations, and Secretary-General|date=June 22, 2007|work=Concordia University News and Events|access-date=2009-10-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714164114/http://news.concordia.ca/administration/011307.shtml|archive-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref>

In 2013, he was hired to defend [[Michael Applebaum]], the former mayor of Montreal, on corruption charges.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/news/Former+federal+represent+Applebaum/8543680/story.html "Former MP to represent Applebaum"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622073424/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Former+federal+represent+Applebaum/8543680/story.html |date=2013-06-22 }}. ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]'', June 18, 2013.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1889}}
{{Mulroney Ministry}}
{{CA-Ministers of Labour}}

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