Gérard Latulippe

Gérard Latulippe (born November 5, 1944) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician, who served as Canada's high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 2013 to 2018.

Biography Born in Montreal, he studied economics at Sir George Williams University and law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa. He worked as a lawyer.

He first ran for election to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1981 election, as a Quebec Liberal Party candidate in Rosemont. Unsuccessful in that election, he ran in Chambly in the 1985 election, and was elected that year. He served in the cabinet of premier Robert Bourassa from 1985 to 1987 as solicitor general.

In 2010 he was named as head of the Canadian human rights organization Rights and Democracy, holding this role until the organization was dissolved in 2012. He was then named to his current post as high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.