Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau,
C.C., CD, Ph.D., F.C.A.S.I., PC, MP (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian politician and the
Minister of Transport in the
Government of Canada. He is a retired military officer, former
astronaut, and engineer; Garneau was the first Canadian in space taking part in three flights aboard
NASA Space shuttles in 1984, 1996 and 2000. Garneau was the president of the
Canadian Space Agency from 2001 to 2006, and in 2003 was installed as the ninth Chancellor of
Carleton University in
Ottawa.