Gérard-Raymond Morin (27 January 1940 – 9 December 2024) was a Canadian politician. He served as the member for Dubuc in the

National Assembly of Quebec The National Assembly of Quebec (, ) is the Legislature, legislative body of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; ). The lieutenant governor of Que ...

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 establishi ...

from 1989 until 1998.

Early career

Morin graduated in commerce from the Collège Saint-Joseph in

La Baie La Baie (, ) is one of three boroughs in the city of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It was created during Quebec's municipal reorganization in 2002. From 1976 to 2001, it was known as the Town of La Baie, a municipality composed of the Grande-Bai ...

in 1958. He was employed at Consolidated-Bathurst as a paper-maker. He was the president of the Consolidated-Bathurst Plant National Union from 1976 to 1982.

Political career

Morin was a municipal councillor from 1980 to 1984 and then was the mayor of

from 1984 to 1988. He ran for election in Dubuc in

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

and won, he was re-elected without any difficulty in

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

as the

formed the government. He was the parliamentary secretary to the minister responsible for the

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada on the Labrador Peninsula. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the fi ...

region in the Bouchard government. He did not seek re-election 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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Death

Morin died in La Baie on 9 December 2024, at the age of 84.

Electoral record

Provincial

References

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