Jean-Marc Robitaille

Jean-Marc Robitaille
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 (age 69); Lévis, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Progressive Conservative ; Équipe Robitaille
Profession	real estate

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]

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

v t e 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

v t e 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

^ 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.

External links

Jean-Marc Robitaille – Parliament of Canada biography

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[journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/15-1] 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..

[2] "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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