Joseph Ferdinand Martial Asselin PC OC QC (February 3, 1924 – January 25, 2013) was a Canadian politician and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1990–1996).
Despite no longer having a seat, Diefenbaker appointed Asselin to the position of Minister of Forestry in 1963, in the hope that he and the Tories would both win the upcoming 1963 election.
[citation needed] He served for only a month until the defeat of the Conservatives and Asselin's failure to regain his seat.
Prior to the 1972 election, he accepted an appointment to the Senate of Canada.
In 1992, he was given the right to use the honorific style of "The Right Honourable", which is granted for life and to very few eminent Canadians.