Roger Lapointe

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.

Roger Lapointe
Mayor of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec
Assumed office
1997
Prefect of the municipalité régionale de comté d'Antoine-Labelle
Assumed office
2005
Preceded byAndré Brunet[1]
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Labelle
In office
1973–1976
Preceded byFernand Lafontaine
Succeeded byJacques Léonard
Personal details
BornSeptember 21, 1940
Ferme-Neuve, Quebec, Canada

Early life and career

Lapointe was born in Ferme-Neuve, Quebec. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (1961) and a teaching degree (1962) from the Université Laval, and in 1971 he earned a degree in educational administration from the Université de 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]

Legislator

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.

Return to education

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]

Mayor

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 municipalité régionale de comté d'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]

Electoral record
Municipal
2009 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election, Mayor
Candidate Total votes  % of total votes
(x)Roger Lapointe acclaimed .

Source: Résultants 2009, Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.

2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election, Mayor
Candidate Total votes  % of total 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 Total votes  % of total 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.

Provincial
1976 Quebec general election: Laurentides—Labelle
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Parti QuébécoisJacques Léonard13,79449.25+17.48
LiberalRoger Lapointe9,72534.72−7.01
Union NationaleLaurent Jetté2,99210.68−1.27
Ralliement créditisteAntonio Lemire1,4995.35−9.20
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%
LiberalRoger Lapointe10,00041.73
Parti QuébécoisJacques Léonard7,61231.77
Ralliement créditisteJean-Guy Sabourin3,48614.55
Union NationaleFernand Lafontaine2,86411.95
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.

  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

References
  1. Brunet also served as mayor of Lac-des-Écorces. See Mike de Souza, "Feds stalling Tremblant airport," Montreal Gazette, 5 June 2004, A12; Hors feu, Volume 6, numéro 2 (summer 2005), p. 4.
  2. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
  3. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
  4. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
  5. "Élection d'Yves Meilleur au comité administratif de la MRC", L'information du nord, 3 December 2009, accessed 28 April 2011.
  6. Conseil d'administration, Fédération Québécoise des Municipalités, accessed 28 April 2011.
  7. "Forestry workers clash: Strikers accuse union of dragging out talks," Montreal Gazette, 15 November 2006, A9.
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