Education
Harvard University; Laval University.
Harvard University; Laval University.
Born in Deschaillons, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1943 from Université Laval. He received a Master of Arts in Economics from Harvard University in 1948. From 1946 to 1972, he was a Professor of Economics at the Université Laval.
From 1946 to 1977, he was a founding parntner of the Chartered Accountant firm, Bélanger Dallaire Gagnon & Associates (today part of Ernst & Young).
From 1960 to 1976, he helped advise the Quebec government on federal-provincial relations and public finance for Premiers Jean Lesage, Daniel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Bertrand and Robert Bourassa. From 1975 to 1976, he was the President of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of Abitibi-Price, National Bank of Canada, Bachelor of Civil Engineering Incorporated., Celanese Canada, Eldorado Nuclear, Cameco, Great-West Assurance, Labatt Brewing Company, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Hudson"s Bay Company, Provigo, and International Netherlands Group Canada.