Benoît Tremblay

Benoît Tremblay
Member of Parliament for Rosemont
In office 21 November 1988 – 2 June 1997
Preceded by	Suzanne Blais-Grenier
Succeeded by	Bernard Bigras
Member of the Montreal City Council for Sault-au-Récollet
In office 9 November 1986 – 12 December 1988
Personal details
Born	(1948-03-16)16 March 1948 Val-Brillant, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Bloc Québécois (1990–1997)
Other political affiliations	Independent (1990) Progressive Conservative (1988–1990)
Occupation	Politician Economist Administrator

Benoît Tremblay (French pronunciation: [bənwa tʁɑ̃blɛ]; born 16 March 1948) was a Canadian politician and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997.

Background

Tremblay was born on 16 March 1948 in Val-Brillant, Quebec. He had a career in Economics and Administration.

Municipal politics

He successfully ran as a candidate of Jean Doré's Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM) for the district of Sault-au-Récollet in November 1986.

Tremblay resigned from the City Council on 12 December 1988, after he won a seat to the House of Commons of Canada.

Federal politics

He had been elected as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the district of Rosemont.

Following the 1990 implosion of the Meech Lake Accord, he left the Progressive Conservative party on 26 June 1990. He sat in Parliament as an Independent member and eventually became one of the first members to join the Bloc Québécois party. He was re-elected in the 1993 under his new party banner.

After serving in the 34th and 35th Canadian Parliaments, Tremblay left Canadian politics as he did not seek a third term in the House of Commons.

Academic life

He is currently a professor at HEC Montréal where he is also the Director of the Desjardins Centre for Studies in Management of Financial Services Cooperatives.

Electoral record (partial)

1993 Canadian federal election: Rosemont
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Tremblay	29,414	62.95		$42,398
	Liberal	Pierre Bourque	12,826	27.45	−1.73	$33,639a
	Progressive Conservative	Pauline Vincent	2,519	5.39	−32.45	$27,356
	New Democratic	Roger Lamarre	1,037	2.22	−18.02	$885
	Natural Law	Marc Roy	646	1.38		$10,900
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	189	0.40	+0.13	$80
	Commonwealth of Canada	Stéphane Levesque	93	0.20	−0.07	$0
Total valid votes			46,724	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,089
Turnout			48,813	75.43	+7.12
Electors on the lists			64,717
a Does not include unpaid claims. Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from the official contributions and expenses submitted by the candidates, provided by Elections Canada.

1988 Canadian federal election: Rosemont
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Benoît Tremblay	17,127	37.84		$44,311
	Liberal	Jacques Guilbault	13,209	29.18	–	$45,624
	New Democratic	Giuseppe Sciortino	9,163	20.24		$37,493
	Independent	Suzanne Blais-Grenier	2,060	4.55		$8,864
	Rhinoceros	Christian Nettoyeur Jolicoeur	1,656	3.66	–	$0
	Green	Sylvain Auclair	1,383	3.06		$24
	Communist	Gaétan Trudel	151	0.33		$18
	Social Credit	Dollard Desjardins	148	0.33		$0
	Marxist–Leninist	Arnold August	122	0.27		$130
	Independent	Léo Larocque	122	0.27		$5,150
	Commonwealth of Canada	Christiane Deland-Gervais	120	0.27		$0
Total valid votes			45,261	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,025
Turnout			46,286	68.31
Electors on the lists			67,754
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-fourth General Election, 1988.

External links

• Benoît Tremblay – Parliament of Canada biography
• Website of the Desjardins Centre for Studies in Management of Financial Services Cooperatives
• Benoît Tremblay's Webpage @ HEC Montréal