Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Public Safety

Steven Blaney

Steven Blaney is a Canadian businessman and politician who has been the mayor of Lévis, Quebec, since 2025. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Minister of Public Safety Canada from 2013 to 2015 and previously as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2011 to 2013. He represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2021. Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone; his English has a marked Quebecois accent.

Born

1965

April 8

Died

Living

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1960s

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1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

217 Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
876 The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
1143 Manuel I Komnenos succeeds his father John II Komnenos as Byzantine Emperor.

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The world in 1965

When Steven arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 8

Adrian Boult 1889–1983 English conductor (died 1983) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1818–1892 German chemist and academic (died 1892) Carlos Santana 1986– Dominican baseball player Clarence Hudson White 1871–1925 American photographer and educator (died 1925) Dionysios Solomos 1798–1857 Greek poet and author (died 1857) Emma Caulfield 1973– American actress Franco Corelli 1921–2003 Italian tenor and actor (died 2003) Gennady Golovkin 1982– Kazakhstani boxer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1965

Dmitry Medvedev 1965– Russia businessperson 2 Cold Scorpio 1965– American wrestler Andrew Stanton 1965– American voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter Annie Duke 1965– American poker player and author Aravinda de Silva 1965– Sri Lankan cricketer Claude Lemieux 1965– Canadian ice hockey player Craig Biggio 1965– American baseball player and coach David Miliband 1965– English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dennis Lehane 1965– American author, screenwriter, and producer

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