Jacques P. Dupuis

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Jacques P. Dupuis


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cabinet= Minister of Justice and Public Safety
term_start=November 30, 1998
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predecessor= Normand Cherry
birth_date= birth date and age |1948|11|25
birth_place= Montreal, Quebec
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profession= lawyer
party= Quebec Liberal Party
party colour= Liberal
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riding=Saint-Laurent (1998-present)
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Jacques P. Dupuis (born November 25, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party in the riding of Saint-Laurent in the Montreal region , Dupuis is also Quebec Minister of Justice and Minister of Public Security

Dupuis has a law degree from the Université de Montréal and was named to the Barreau du Québec in 1974. and is a former lawyer. He was a lawyer from 1974 to 1986 and from 1996 to 1997. He was also a designated teacher in Halifax, Nova Scotia a chief of staff for the Ministry of Workforce, Income Security and vocational training and for the Quebec Liberal Party and an Attorney General. He was also the vice-president of Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers of Montreal and a member of the Administrative Law Society.

He was first elected in the 1998 election in the riding of Saint-Laurent. In his first term, as an opposition member, he sat as critic to the Minister of Public Security from 1999 to 2003. He was re-elected in the 2003 election. In his second term he was named to the Cabinet, and also served as Minister of Reform of Democratic Institutions and Minister Responsible for the Laurentides Region and the Lanaudière from 2003 to 2005.

He was re-elected in 2007, and was re-named the Minister of Public Security and was added the portfolio of Justice but was no longer the Government House Leader and Deputy Premier, positions that were given to Jean-Marc Fournier and Nathalie Normandeau respectively.

External links

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/d/dupj3.shtml National Assembly Biography]