- Fernand Lafontaine
Fernand-Joseph Lafontaine was a
Canadian politician and a Member of theLegislative Assembly of Quebec . [ [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/j-l/lafofj.htm Biography of Fernand-Joseph Lafontaine, Assemblée nationale du Québec] ]Background
He was born on
November 14 ,1922 inMontreal and became anengineer .Member of the Legislature
Lafontaine ran as a Union Nationale candidate in a
by-election held onSeptember 16 ,1959 in the provincial district of Labelle and won. He was re-elected in the 1960, 1962, 1966 and 1970 elections.He served as his party's campaign manager from 1963 to 1970.
Cabinet Member
He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1966 and served as Minister of Public Works until 1967 and as Minister of Highways until 1970. Lafontaine was defeated against Liberal candidate
Roger Lapointe in the 1973 election.Footnotes
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