jean, yves, laforest, this, biography, living, person, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, adding, reliable, sources, contentious, material, about, living, persons, that, unsourced, poorly, sourced, must, removed, immediately, from, artic. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Jean Yves Laforest news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Jean Yves Laforest born June 13 1949 in Shawinigan Quebec is a Canadian former Member of Parliament Jean Yves LaforestMember of Parliamentfor Saint Maurice ChamplainIn office January 23 2006 May 2 2011Preceded byMarcel GagnonSucceeded byLise St DenisPersonal detailsBorn 1949 06 13 June 13 1949 age 74 Shawinigan Quebec CanadaPolitical partyBloc QuebecoisResidenceGrand Mere QuebecProfessionschool administrator Contents 1 Background 2 Member of Parliament 3 Footnotes 4 External linksBackground editBefore he entered politics Laforest was an administrator by profession Member of Parliament editHe was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2006 federal election representing the Bloc Quebecois for the riding of Saint Maurice Champlain He sat in the Bloc Quebecois Shadow Cabinet as critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec He lost his riding to the NDP in the 2011 federal election Briefly after TQS a Quebec based TV network announced that it would abolish its information services division Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec 1 Footnotes edit Le Bloc reclame de nouveau un CRTC quebecois La Presse May 1 2008External links editJean Yves Laforest Parliament of Canada biography nbsp This article about a Quebec Member of Parliament from Bloc Quebecois is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jean Yves Laforest amp oldid 1186907135, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,