Réginald Bélair (April 6, 1949 – March 3, 2020) was a
Canadian
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politician.
Bélair was a
Liberal member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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from 1988 to 2004, representing the
riding of
Cochrane—Superior until 1997 and subsequently
Timmins-James Bay. Bélair also worked as an administrator, a manager, and a political assistant. In the House of Commons, Bélair was a Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole, and was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works (Public Works and Government Services) and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply and Services (Public Works and Government Services).
Bélair was born in
Hearst, Ontario
Hearst is a town in the district of Cochrane, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Mattawishkwia River in Northern Ontario, approximately west of Kapuskasing, approximately east of Thunder Bay along Highway 11. At Hearst, Highway 583 extend ...
. He served as a municipal councillor in
Kapuskasing
Kapuskasing ( ) is a town on the Kapuskasing River in the Cochrane District of Northern Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Hearst, Ontario, Hearst and northwest of Timmins, Ontario, Timmins. The town was known as MacPherson until 1917.
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for three years.
Retirement
In the
2004 federal election, electoral redistribution put Bélair's home area of Kapuskasing outside of Timmins—James Bay and into the newly named riding of
Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, an extension of the Algoma—Manitoulin riding held by Liberal colleague
Brent St. Denis. Bélair at first announced that he might seek the Liberal nomination in Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, then announced his retirement instead.
He died from cancer at a hospital in Kapuskasing on March 3, 2020, at the age of seventy.
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1949 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Ontario
Franco-Ontarian people
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Ontario municipal councillors
People from Kapuskasing
People from Hearst, Ontario
20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada