Bernard Landry

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Jean-Bernard Landry
honorific-suffix = GOQ LLB BAEcon
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caption = Jean-Bernard Landry
birth_date = birth date and age | 1937|03|09
birth_place = Saint-Jacques, Quebec, Canada
residence =
death_date =
death_place =
order = 28th
office = Premier of Quebec
term_start = March 8, 2001
term_end = June 6, 2003
lieutenant_governor = Lise Thibault
predecessor = Lucien Bouchard
successor = Jean Charest
party = Parti Québécois
religion =
spouse = Lorraine Laporte (deceased)
Chantal Renaud
profession = lawyer

Jean-Bernard Landry GOQ (born March 9, 1937) is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, (2001–2003), leader of the Opposition (2003–2005) and leader of the Parti Québécois (2001–2005).

Personal

Jean-Bernard Landry was born on March 9, 1937 in Saint-Jacques, Quebec, (near Joliette). On June 26, 2004, he married script writer and former yé-yé singer Chantal Renaud. He speaks three languages fluently: French, Spanish and English.

Professional profile

Bernard Landry received a degree in law from the Université de Montréal, and a degree in economics and finance from "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris".

A practising lawyer, he was a partner in the Montreal law firm of "Lapointe Rosenstein" when he was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1976 general election. Under the Parti Québécois (PQ) government of René Lévesque, he served as Minister of State of Economic Development from February 2, 1977 to March 12, 1981. Re-elected in the riding of Laval-des-rapides at the 1981 general election, he was again Minister of State of Economic Development until September 9, 1982 when he was made Delegate Minister to Exterior Commerce. He was later Minister of International Relations and Exterior Commerce, and Minister of Finance in the same government.

After the defeat of Parti Québécois in the 1985 general election, he taught in the Department of Administrative Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1994. After the victory of the PQ in the 1994 general election, the newly elected premier, Jacques Parizeau, made him his Deputy Premier, a position he held from September 26, 1994 to December 15, 1998.

In February 2001, during the Parti Québécois leadership race, Landry was criticized for a comment regarding the federal government's policy of prominently displaying the maple leaf on federal government buildings and programs, when his phrase "des bouts de chiffons rouge" was mistranslated in English Canadian media as "bits of red rag" — "chiffon rouge" is more accurately translated as "red flag", and is in fact a normal idiom in Quebec French which refers to the red cape that a matador uses to provoke his prey in the sport of bullfighting. [http://eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_02.08.01/news/media.html]

He became Premier of Quebec on March 8, 2001, following the resignation of Lucien Bouchard. Landry is a Quebec sovereignist advocating a supranational confederation of Quebec and Canada, inspired by the institutions of the European Union. As such, he is one of the most faithful followers of René Lévesque and the other sovereigty-associationists. He is the author of "Commerce sans frontières" ("Trade without Borders"), published in 1987.

In 2003, he lost the Quebec general election to Jean Charest's Quebec Liberal Party. A renowned documentary named "À Hauteur d'homme" about Bernard Landry's viewpoint of the election was produced in 2003. At the August 2004 Parti Québécois National Council, after a long period of reflection that began the day after the election, he announced on August 27, 2004, that he would remain president of the party, and lead the PQ to the next election in order to bring Quebec to independence.

On June 4, 2005, Bernard Landry announced he would resign as party leader after gaining only 76.2% approval in a leadership confidence vote at a party convention in Quebec City. [cite news|url=http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117929100254_5?hub=topstories
title=Bernard Landry quits as Parti Québécois leader |work=Sympatico
publisher=CTV.ca
date=June 5, 2005]

Since September 2005, he has been a professor at UQAM in the business strategy department.On Saturday, February 9, 2008, Bernard Landry hosted the final round of the Finance Quiz at the 2008 Financial Open at UQAM.

Works

* "Quebec's Foreign Trade", 1982
* Preface of Price Waterhouse's "Les 58 moyens d'exporter", 1985
* "Commerce sans frontières : le sens du libre-échange", 1987
* Preface of Zeina El Tibi's "La Francophonie et le dialogue des cultures", 2001
* "La cause du Québec", 2002
* "Le commerce international : une approche nord-américaine", 2008 (in collab. with Antoine Panet-Raymond and Denis Robichaud)Articles
* "La mondialisation rend la souveraineté plus nécessaire et urgente que jamais", in "L'Action nationale", March 1999 ( [http://english.republiquelibre.org/Globalization_renders_sovereignty_more_necessary_and_urgent_than_ever en] , [http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/actionnationale//fp/1999/9333.html fr] )
* "Pour l'indépendance politique et pétrolière", in "Le Devoir", June 13, 2008 ( [http://english.republiquelibre.org/For_Political_and_Oil_Independence en] , [http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/06/13/193748.html fr] )

Honours

* 1999 - Bavarian Order of Merit [http://www.baviere-quebec.org/archives/2007/20.en.php]
* 2006 - Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society's Patriot of the Year and Bene merenti de patria medal
* 2008 - Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec

ee also

*Parti Québécois leadership election, 1985
*Politics of Quebec
*List of Quebec Premiers
*List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition
*Quebec general elections
*Timeline of Quebec history
*Ted Moses (Former Grand Chief of the Cree)

Notes

References

* Vastel, Michel (2001). "Landry. le grand dérangeant : biographie", Montréal: Éditions de l'Homme, 444 p. ISBN 2-7619-1676-X
* Labrecque, Jean-Claude (2003). "À hauteur d'homme", Westmount : Christal Films; Montréal : Productions Virage, 2003, DVD (104 min.)
* " [http://www.vigile.net/_Landry-Bernard_ Bernard Landry] ", in "Vigile.net"

External links

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/j-l/lanb1.shtml Assemblée nationale]
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