Saint Boniface
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,
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) is a
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in
Manitoba
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cabinet minister
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Howard Pawley
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St. Boniface College
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and the
University of Manitoba
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St. Boniface
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school division. He also spent five years in Africa as a teacher with the
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(CIDA), and was a member of the Franco-Manitoban Society.
He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the election of 1981, scoring a comfortable victory in the east-
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. The NDP won a majority government in this election, and Lecuyer was named Government House Leader soon after the party's victory. He was a leading supporter of the legal re-entrenchment of French language services within the province.
Lecuyer was named Minister of Environment and
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on November 4, 1983. He won a fairly easy re-election in the 1986 election, and retained his cabinet positions until the NDP government was unexpectedly defeated in the legislature in 1988. He lost his seat to
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Allan Patterson
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by almost 2,000 votes in the 1988 provincial election.
After leaving politics, Lecuyer worked as a consultant in Manitoba and the
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. From 1990 to 1994, he was executive director of the Francophone Parents Federation in Manitoba. He was also appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission.