Jean-Yves Laforest
Member of Parliament
for Saint-Maurice—Champlain
In office
January 23, 2006  May 2, 2011
Preceded byMarcel Gagnon
Succeeded byLise St-Denis
Personal details
Born (1949-06-13) June 13, 1949
Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Political partyBloc Québécois
ResidenceGrand-Mère, Quebec
Professionschool administrator

Jean-Yves Laforest (born June 13, 1949 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian former Member of Parliament.

Background

Before he entered politics, Laforest was an administrator by profession.

Member of Parliament

He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2006 federal election representing the Bloc Québécois for the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain. He sat in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet as critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec. He lost his riding to the NDP in the 2011 federal election.

Briefly after TQS, a Quebec-based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec.[1]

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