Jean-Yves Roy (born July 21, 1949) is a retired Canadian
politician
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. He was a
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois (BQ; , "Québécois people, Quebecer Voting bloc, Bloc") is a list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Que ...
member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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The House of Common ...
from the
2000 election until his resignation in 2010.
Political career
Born in
Saint-Charles-Garnier, Quebec
Saint-Charles-Garnier is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Charles-Garnier had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of ...
, Roy represented the
district
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s of
Matapédia—Matane until 2006 and then
Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia
Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia (formerly known as Matapédia—Matane) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 until 2013. It has the lowest percenta ...
for the following four years. Prior to being elected he was a teacher. He is the Bloc's
Fisheries and Oceans critic. He was a city councillor in
Pointe-au-Père, Quebec
Pointe-au-Père is a district (''secteur'') of the city of Rimouski, Quebec, which is located in the central part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Its population was 4,240 in 2002, the year i ...
in 1981, and he was mayor from 1982 to 1986.
Roy resigned from the House effective October 22, 2010 after having been largely absent from the House of Commons. He had been asked by Bloc leader
Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe (; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and ...
to make a decision as to his future due to his prolonged absences and announced in September that he would wait until after the Commons voted on a private members bill to abolish the
long gun registry to resign so that he could vote for the registry's retention.
"Gun-registry fight headed for draw in Commons"
, ''Globe and Mail'', September 13, 2010
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1949 births
Living people
Bloc Québécois MPs
French Quebecers
Mayors of places in Quebec
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
People from Amqui
21st-century Canadian politicians