Gilbert Rondeau

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name=Gilbert F. Rondeau

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birth_date=7 March 1928
birth_place=Sainte-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Quebec
death_date=death date and age|1994|3|9|1928|3|7
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riding=Shefford
term_start=June 1962
term_end=November 1965
term_start2=June 1968
term_end2=March 1979
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profession=businessman, industrialist, insurance agent
party=Social Credit
Ralliement créditiste
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Gilbert F. Rondeau (7 March 1928 - 9 March 1994) was a Social Credit party and Ralliement créditiste member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Sainte-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Quebec and became a businessman, industrialist and insurance agent by career.

Political career

Rondeau first campaigned in the 1949 federal election at the Beauharnois riding for the Union of Electors party, but did not win the seat.

His next election campaign was in the 1962 federal election where he won the Shefford riding for the Social Credit party. After re-election to a second term in the 1963 election, Rondeau was defeated in 1965 by Liberal candidate Louis-Paul Neveu. Rondeau won the Shefford seat back in the following national election in 1968, and was re-elected in 1972 and 1974.

Being one of the few Social Credit politicians who was able to speak English, Rondeau helped represent the predominantly francophone party on business trips across Canada. But Rondeau's political career ended due to charges of Unemployment Insurance fraud for which he was convicted and sentenced to a five-month prison term. Due to such legal problems, he was ejected from the Social Credit party in 1977 and was an independent member for the remainder of the 30th Canadian Parliament. In the 1979 election, Rondeau campaigned at Shefford as an independent but lost to Jean Lapierre of the Liberals.cite news | title=Appeal court increases term of former MP | publisher="The Globe and Mail" | date=12 September 1979 | page=P9 | author=The Canadian Press ]

Rondeau died on 9 March 1994 due to problems resulting from gallstone removal surgery.cite news | title=Obituary / Gilbert Rondeau Creditiste was expelled | publisher="The Globe and Mail" | date=12 March 1994 | page=A16 | author=The Canadian Press ]

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