Michel Benoit Cogger, KC (March 21, 1939 – January 27, 2025) was a Canadian businessman, lawyer and politician in Quebec who served in the Senate of Canada.
[1] Cogger was a senior political advisor to and fundraiser for Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney and helped run the party's campaigns in Quebec in the 1984 and 1988 federal elections in which the Tories swept the province.
[2] Cogger attended law school at Laval University in the 1960s, where he became friends with Mulroney.
In 1991, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police laid influence peddling charges alleging that Cogger had taken payments from businessman Guy Montpetit in exchange for the use of Cogger's influence to win government grants and contacts.
He had been largely absent from the upper house during his legal battles and was fined a total of $23,250 for missing sessions.