Benoît Laprise (born July 16, 1932) is an agricultural technician and Quebec politician. He represented Roberval in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003, as a member of the

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishin ...

. Prior to Laprise's election, he was an agricultural technician at the Quebec

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

for nearly thirty years. He also served as regional Vice-President and President of the Catholic Union of Farmers.

Political career

Laprise was a commissioner of the La Vallière School Board in 1968, he served as President in 1969 and later was president of the Louis-Hémon Regional School Board from 1975 to 1979. Laprise was elected to the Saint-Félicien municipal council in 1981 and mayor from 1983 until 1994. He served concurrently as deputy prefect of the regional county municipality of

Le Domaine-du-Roy Le Domaine-du-Roy ''(The King's Domain)'' is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Roberval, and it is named for the King of France, who owned the land at the time of the coloniz ...

in 1993 and 1994. He ran for the

in Roberval in

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and with the retirement of incumbent Gaston Blackburn won handily, he was re-elected in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. He did not seek re-election in 2003.Benoît Laprise Quebec National Assembly Biography
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References

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