Les funérailles de l'ancien député et ministre libéral fédéral Herb Gray auront lieu vendredi matin à Ottawa.
Herb Gray, qui a siégé pendant près de 40 ans, est décédé lundi à l'âge de 82 ans.
La cérémonie funèbre aura lieu à la synagogue de la congrégation Machzikei Hadas à 11 heures.
Le gouverneur général du Canada David Johnston sera du nombre des personnalités qui y assisteront.
Une cérémonie d'inhumation suivra au cimetière Jewish Memorial Gardens à Ottawa.
Au cours de sa carrière en politique fédérale, Herb Gray a occupé 11 postes différents au sein du cabinet, pour terminer comme vice-premier ministre du Canada. Il a aussi été le premier membre juif du conseil des ministres.
Il a quitté la politique active en 2002.
Herb Gray, A Life In Politics
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Open Image ModalHerb Gray served in Parliament from 1962 to 2002. He was pronounced dead on April 21, 2014. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalLiberal MP Herb Gray shares a laugh with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on their way to the House of Commons in this May, 1972 file photo. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalHerb Gray is seen putting on an approved hockey helmet after Canada passed safety standards restricting the sale of helmets in Ottawa in this Oct. 26, 1973 photo. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalHerb Gray in a July 9, 1984 photo. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer solicitor-general Herb Gray responds to reporters\' questions in Ottawa in 1996. Their questiones concerned a report by Judge Louise Arbour into a strip-search conducted by guards at the Kingston Prison for Women. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer deputy prime minister Herb Gray talks with reporters following a cabinet shuffle swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa Wednesday while Sheila Copps walks by in 1997. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalOlympic medalists Susan Auch (left) and Mark Tewksbury (right) pose with former deputy prime minister Herb Gray holding symbolic containers of water at a news conference in Toronto on Wednesday Sept. 1, 1999, to announce the Trans Canada Trail Relay 2000. Relay participants carried containers of water from the three oceans on Canada\'s borders, along the length of the 16,100-kilometer trail. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalHerb Gray stands in the House of Commons in 2001. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer deputy prime minister Herb Gray (right) responds to a question from then-Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Feb. 15, 2001. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer deputy prime minister Herb Gray stands in the House of Commons as he responds to questions from the opposition during Question Period in this Dec. 3, 2001 photo. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer deputy prime minister Herb Gray poses for a photo in front of his collection of editorial cartoons from his long career in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 15, 2002. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer prime minister Jean Chretien gives former deputy prime minister Herb Gray a nudge after receiving the title \"Right Honourable\" from Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Jan. 23, 2002. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalPrime Minister Jean Chretien pays tribute to former Member of Parliament and cabinet minister Herb Gray (left) during tributes to the former politician, in the House of Commons in Ottawa on March 13, 2002. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalFormer deputy prime minister Herb Gray attends a ceremony after receiving a honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2003. (credit:CP)
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Open Image ModalGovernor General Adrienne Clarkson (right) speaks with former Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray after receiving honorary degrees from the University of Ottawa during a ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2003. (credit:CP)