Roger Lapointe | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec | |
| Assumed office 1997 | |
| Prefect of the municipalitérégionale de comtéd'Antoine-Labelle | |
| Assumed office 2005 | |
| Preceded by | AndréBrunet [1] |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Labelle | |
| In office 1973–1976 | |
| Preceded by | Fernand Lafontaine |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Léonard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 10,1940 Ferme-Neuve,Quebec,Canada |
Roger Lapointe (born September 10,1940) is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1976 and has been the mayor of Mont-Saint-Michel since 1997.
Lapointe was born in Ferme-Neuve,Quebec. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (1961) and a teaching degree (1962) from the UniversitéLaval,and in 1971 he earned a degree in educational administration from the Universitéde Montréal. Lapointe taught math and sciences in Mont-Laurier in the Commission scolaire Henri-Bourassa from 1962 to 1966,was coordinator of education from 1966 to 1970,and served as director of education from 1970 to 1973. [2]
Lapointe was founder and president of the Commission scolaire Henri-Bourassa teaching association,and from 1964 to 1966 he was a member of the provincial council of the Corporation des enseignants du Québec. He also served as president of the board of directors of the Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Croix hospital in Mont-Laurier in the early 1970s. [3]
Lapointe was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1973 provincial election,defeating Union Nationale incumbent Fernand Lafontaine in the division of Labelle. The Liberal Party won a landslide majority government in this election under Robert Bourassa's leadership,and Lapointe served for the next three years as a government backbencher. He was defeated by Parti Québécois candidate Jacques Léonard in the 1976 provincial election.
Lapointe was director of educational services at the Commission scolaire Henri-Bourassa from 1979 to 1982,when he was hired in the same position at the Commission scolaire Pierre-Neveu. He was promoted to director general of the latter institution in 1985 and served in this role until 1997. From 1998 to 2003,he worked as an investment broker. [4]
Lapointe was elected as mayor of Mont-Saint-Michel in 1997 and has been re-elected without opposition in every election since. He became prefect of the municipalitérégionale de comtéd'Antoine-Labelle in 2005 and was re-elected in 2007 and 2009. On that latter occasion,he said that he would continue to work in areas such as road expansion,high speed internet access,and economic diversification planning. [5] Lapointe is also active with the Fédération Québécoise des Municipalités. [6]
In 2006,he accused the Quebec Federation of Labour of unnecessarily dragging out a strike in Ferme-Neuve. [7]
| 2009 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election : Mayor | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)Roger Lapointe | acclaimed | . | ||||||
Source: Résultants 2009, Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.
| 2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election : Mayor | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)Roger Lapointe | acclaimed | . | ||||||
Source: Élections municipales 2005 - Résultats des élections pour les postes de maire et de conseiller, Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.
| 2001 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election : Mayor | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)Roger Lapointe | acclaimed | . | ||||||
Source: Élections municipales 2001 - Résultats des élections pour le poste de maire, Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.
| 1976 Quebec general election : Laurentides-Labelle | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jacques Léonard | 13,794 | 49.25 | +17.48 | ||||
| Liberal | Roger Lapointe | 9,725 | 34.72 | −7.01 | ||||
| Union Nationale | Laurent Jetté | 2,992 | 10.68 | −1.27 | ||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Antonio Lemire | 1,499 | 5.35 | −9.20 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,010 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 374 | |||||||
| Turnout | 28,384 | 83.32 | +2.62 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 34,066 | |||||||
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
| 1973 Quebec general election : Laurentides-Labelle | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Roger Lapointe | 10,000 | 41.73 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Jacques Léonard | 7,612 | 31.77 | |||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Jean-Guy Sabourin | 3,486 | 14.55 | |||||
| Union Nationale | Fernand Lafontaine | 2,864 | 11.95 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 23,962 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 275 | |||||||
| Turnout | 24,237 | 80.70 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 30,035 | |||||||
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.