Jean-A. Joly
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Jean-A. Joly (born August 29, 1939) is a Canadian politician from Quebec. He served as a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994.
He should not be confused with a different Jean Joly who has been a municipal politician in Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.
Early life and career
Joly was born in Montreal.[1] He was a technician in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1956 to 1959 and later worked as a life insurance sales manager.[2] Before running for office, he was known for his involvement in anti-drug campaigns.[3]
Legislator
Joly was first elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1985 provincial election, defeating Parti Québécois incumbent Michel Leduc in the Laval division of Fabre. The Liberals won a majority government in this election, and Joly entered the legislature as a backbench supporter of Robert Bourassa's government. In 1988, he was part of a group of Liberal legislators who pressured manpower and income security minister Pierre Paradis to remove the harsher aspects of a welfare reform bill.[4] Joly supported both a subway line and the extension of Highway 440 into Laval during the late 1980s.[5]
He was re-elected to a second term in the 1989 provincial election and supported Robert Bourassa's shift to Quebec nationalism in 1990 after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord on reforming the Canadian constitution.[6] He did not seek re-election in 1994.
Joly has served as president of the Fondation des parlementaires Québécois.[7]
Federal politics
Joly campaigned on behalf of Liberal Party of Canada candidate Michel Dupuy in the 1993 Canadian federal election.[8] The federal and provincial Liberal parties are not aligned in Quebec, and not all provincial Liberals support the federal party.
Electoral record
| Quebec general election, 1989: Fabre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Liberal | Jean-A. Joly | 16,283 | 51.68 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Leduc | 13,704 | 43.50 | |||||
| Lemon | Luc Cloutier | 1,520 | 4.82 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 31,507 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 1,087 | |||||||
| Turnout | 32,594 | 79.31 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 41,095 | |||||||
| Quebec general election, 1985: Fabre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Liberal | Jean-A. Joly | 15,130 | 51.38 | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Leduc | 13,199 | 44.82 | |||||
| New Democratic Party | Louis Roy | 668 | 2.27 | |||||
| Parti indépendantiste | Guy Milot | 371 | 1.26 | |||||
| Christian Socialist | Jacques Forget | 81 | 0.28 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,449 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 483 | |||||||
| Turnout | 29,932 | 80.19 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 37,327 | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- ↑ Aaron Derfel, "Anglos may hold key to victory; The race in Fabre," Montreal Gazette, 31 August 1989, A6.
- ↑ Harvey Shepherd, "Laval: Two PQ cabinet ministers swamped by red tide," Montreal Gazette, 3 December 1985, C4.
- ↑ Sarah Scott, "Liberal backbenchers, youth wing teaming up to battle welfare plan," Montreal Gazette, 3 June 1988, A4.
- ↑ Catherine Buckie, "Laval politicians drum up support for Metro," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1988, A3;
- ↑ Philip Authier, "Bourassa slams door on constitution talks," Montreal Gazette, 24 June 1990, A1.
- ↑ Fondation des parlementaires Québécois: Cultures à partager, accessed 28 March 2011.
- ↑ Geoff Baker, "BQ juggernaut takes 2 seats in Laval, Liberals salvage 1," Montreal Gazette, 26 October 1993, B9.