Jean Filion (born March 22, 1951) is a

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former politician, who represented the

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of Montmorency in the

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from 1991 to 1998.Jean Filion
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. He was a member of

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. He was the party's candidate in Montmorency in the 1985 provincial election, but lost to

Yves Séguin Yves Séguin (born March 30, 1951 in Val-d'Or, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician in Quebec. He was first elected as the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) member for Montmorency in 1985. He was the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Reve ...

of the

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. He was first elected in a

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on August 12, 1991, following Séguin's resignation, and was reelected in the 1994 election. He left the party to sit as an independent in 1995, and ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Beauport in 1996. He ran as an independent candidate in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Jean-François Simard. He was later charged with thirteen counts of

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and breach of trust, after allegations that he diverted funds from his MNA expense budget into renovations for a building he owned."Former MNA facing fraud charges"

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, April 9, 2000. He was convicted in 2004 on eight of the thirteen counts,"Former politician loses right to practice accounting". ''Law in Quebec'', November 5, 2009. and sentenced to six months in jail. He was subsequently stripped of his designation as a chartered accountant by the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants. Due to his conviction, the National Assembly withheld a sizable "transition payment" that he would have been entitled to as an outgoing MNA."Former MNA Filion entitled to pay despite fraud"
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'', February 12, 2013. He filed a lawsuit against the provincial government in the

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in 2012 for $52,617 in transition payments, $50,000 in moral damages and $42,000 to cover legal fees and expenses. In February 2013, Superior Court Justice Suzanne Hardy-Lemieux ruled that he was entitled to partial compensation of $29,699 for the transition payments, but rejected his claim for additional damages and expenses.

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1932 births Independent MNAs in Quebec Living people Parti Québécois MNAs Politicians from Quebec City Université Laval alumni {{Quebec-MNA-stub