# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-cannon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:48:40.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-cannon"
name: "Lawrence Cannon"
slug: "lawrence-cannon"
description: "Lawrence Cannon, is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012, and he served in that position until September 2017."
tagline: "Canadian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawrence_Cannon_on_March_29%2C_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.214616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "لارنس کینن"
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    title: "لورانس كانون"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Cannon"
    title: "Lawrence Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Cannon"
    title: "Lawrence Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Cannon"
    title: "Lawrence Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Cannon"
    title: "Lawrence Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кэннон, Лоренс"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump