Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maurice Bourget, PC was a Canadian politician who was Speaker of the Canadian Senate from April 27, 1963 to January 6, 1966. Bourget was born in Lauzon, Quebec and played semi-professional baseball and softball in Levis as a young man. He trained as a civil engineer and practiced in Levis. A Liberal since the age of 19, Bourget was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in 1940. Bourget and several other Quebec Liberal MPs had broken with their party the year before during the Conscription Crisis of 1944, quitting the Liberal caucus in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy National Resources Mobilization Act conscripts overseas. Previously, conscripts had only been used for "home defence" and kept within Canada.