- Jean-Yves Laforest
Infobox CanadianMP | name=Jean-Yves Laforest
term_start=2006
term_end=
predecessor=Marcel Gagnon
birth_date= birth date and age|1949|6|13
birth_place=Shawinigan, Quebec
successor=
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death_place=
profession= school administrator
party=Bloc Québécois
party colour=Bloc
residence=Grand-Mère, Quebec
riding=Saint-Maurice—Champlain
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term_start2=
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predecessor2=
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religion=|Jean-Yves Laforest (born
June 13 ,1949 in Shawinigan,Quebec ) is a CanadianMember of Parliament .Background
Before he entered politics, Laforest was an administrator by profession.
Member of Parliament
He was first elected to the
Canadian House of Commons in the 2006 federal election representing theBloc Québécois for the riding ofSaint-Maurice—Champlain . He sits in theBloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet as critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec.Briefly after
TQS , aQuebec -based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec. [ [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080501/CPACTUALITES/80501130/1019/CPACTUALITES Le Bloc réclame de nouveau un CRTC québécois, La Presse, May 1, 2008] ]Footnotes
External links
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=c83c6d5f-cb42-4085-978b-9eda9d2dfa31&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]
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