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Jacques Brassard (Isle-Malignant June 12th 1940 with -) is a politician Québécois. He was the Député of Lake-Saint-Jean and was minister in several governments pequist.

Biography

Native of the Isle-Malignant (today Alma), Jacques Brassard is the son of Almas Brassard, mechanic, and Anita Maltais. After its academic works at the University of Sherbrooke and the University of Montreal, Brassard becomes graduate in pedagogy, with a specialization in history. It becomes teaching in 1962, having obtained a diploma with the Université of Montreal. He follows his occupation with Alma until in 1976.

Political life

He is elected appointed Parti Québécois (PQ), which was under the crook of Rene Lévesque, in the district of Lake-Saint-Jean to the elections of 1976, then he is re-elected in 1981, in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998. During the Years 1980, he is Minister for the leisures and he is member of the Commission Bélanger-Campeau when the Quebec was directed by Robert Bourassa, the chief of the Liberal party of Quebec (PLQ).

Under the control surface of Lucien Bouchard with the Québécois Party, Brassard is Minister for transport and minister of environment. He is opposed to Stephan Dion with the intergovernmental businesses.

Jacques Brassard resigns of his post of minister and deputy of the district of Lake-Saint-Jean 29 January 2002 with Guy Chevrette, both dissatisfied of the station that Bernard Landry in the government proposed to them.

This native man of Alma currently exerts the journalistic profession and works for the newspaper the Daily newspaper of Chicoutimi since the year of his retirement of the Québécois policy. In addition to to have expressed its support for the American military invasion of Iraq, Brassard also criticized the anti-Bush reflexes of the Inhabitants of Quebec in her political chronicles.

In order to mark its implication in the field of electric industry in Quebec, it is made give, in May 2005, the Prix Jean-Jacques-Archambault.

In April 2006, Brassard lines up as regards government of Jean Charest and property developers in the file of the sale of the National park of the Mount-Orford to private interests.

Quotation

Like all the other chiefs before him, André Boisclair is condemned to manage the skids of an authority - the National council - which was always more radical and more warping that the membership party. The situation is even worse now, with, within the authority, the squadron aguerri of the socialo-trade unionists. The chief will need a vigilant and clear-sighted close guard. .

“We have three national parks, of a marine park, six ecological reserves and fourteen exceptional forest ecosystems, all the affected surfaces of very an high level of protection. I affirm that it is enough. That is enough! (March 23rd, 2005)

“There is on a side, islamist Fascism and all those which tolerate it by cowardice or ideology; and other, there is, as throughout the XXe century, the camp of freedom with, fortunately, America at its head” (November 18th, 2004)

“the opponents with the war in Iraq are a coalition incorporating the media universe, the intellectuals and strategists of living room, the political parties, pacifist anti-American and all the nebula of left. Without forgetting the Muslim communities of any origines” (August 2nd, 2006). One sees them ravelling in our cities with signs” (March 29th, 2006).

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