Ghislain Maltais

The Honourable Ghislain Maltais
Maltais in 2017
Canadian Senator from Shawinegan
In office January 6, 2012 – April 22, 2019
Nominated by	Stephen Harper
Appointed by	David Johnston
Preceded by	Lucie Pépin (2011)
Succeeded by	Tony Loffreda
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saguenay
In office June 20, 1983 – September 12, 1994
Preceded by	Lucien Lessard (1982)
Succeeded by	Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon
Personal details
Born	(1944-04-22) April 22, 1944 (age 80) Sacré-Coeur, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Conservative (federal) Quebec Liberal (provincial)

Ghislain Maltais (born April 22, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Senate of Canada from January 6, 2012 to April 22, 2019 as a Conservative representing the Senate division of Shawinegan (Quebec).

He was born in Sacré-Coeur, Quebec and studied at the Université du Québec à Rimouski.

Maltais was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1981 Quebec election, but won a by-election on June 20, 1983. He was a member of the Quebec National Assembly representing Saguenay from 1983 until 1994, when he did not run for re-election.^[1] He was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in Charlevoix.

Prior to being appointed to the Senate by Stephen Harper, Maltais was a political organizer for the Conservative Party of Canada.^[2] He worked on contract for the Conservative Party from 2006 to 2007, and has been the director of the Conservative Party in Quebec since 2009.^[3]

• Senate biography
• Ghislain Maltais – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

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