Jean-Marc Robitaille (born 11 September 1955) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993 and was the mayor of Terrebonne, Quebec from 1997 to 2016. His career was in real estate. On March 15, 2018, he was arrested by the Unité permanente anticorruption and faces criminal accusations of corruption and abuse of trust from his time as mayor.[1]
Jean-Marc Robitaille | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Terrebonne | |
| In office 1988–1993 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Toupin |
| Succeeded by | Benoît Sauvageau |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 September 1955 Lévis, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative Équipe Robitaille |
| Profession | real estate |
Born in Lévis, Quebec, Robitaille was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Terrebonne electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which he was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Benoît Sauvageau in the 1993 federal election.
He became mayor of Terrebonne on 2 November 1997 and was acclaimed for another term in the 2005 municipal election. He was subsequently re-elected in 2009,[2] and 2013.
Electoral record edit
| 1993 Canadian federal election: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Benoît Sauvageau | 56,235 | 68.9 | |||||
| Liberal | Claire Brouillet | 14,623 | 17.9 | -0.6 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Marc Robitaille | 9,496 | 11.6 | -41.1 | ||||
| New Democratic | Renée-Claude Lorimier | 873 | 1.1 | -9.7 | ||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Christian Chouery | 445 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 81,672 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Marc Robitaille | 35,345 | 52.8 | -7.5 | ||||
| Liberal | Claire Brouillet | 12,422 | 18.5 | -7.7 | ||||
| Independent | Robert Toupin | 10,390 | 15.5 | |||||
| New Democratic | Lauraine Vaillancourt | 7,194 | 10.7 | +1.9 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Alain Cowboy De Lagrave | 1,647 | 2.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 66,998 | 100.0 | ||||||
References edit
- ^ Fortin, Jean-Louis (15 March 2018). "Stratagème de corruption: cadeaux "importants" en échange de contrats publics" (in Canadian French). Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 17 March 2018..
- ^ "Élections municipales à Terrebonne - le maire Jean-Marc Robitaille reconduit pour un 4e mandat (Municipal elections in Terrebonne - Mayor Jean-Marc Robitaille returned for a fourth term" (in French). City of Terrebonne. 3 November 2009. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
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