Pierre Marsan (born June 29, 1948 in

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) is a Quebec politician. He was the member of

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for the riding of

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for the

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. Marsan went to the

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and obtained a

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in business administration and would add a

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in health administration at

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. He was a guest teacher in the faculty of administration at the Université de Montréal and was a director in hospital services at the Hotel-Dieu's

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Hospital. He was the general manager at the

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and the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur. He was an assistant director at Santa Cabrini Hospital. He was also a board member for several institutions including the Montreal Heart Institute, the Epic Foundation, the Hôpital du Sacré Coeur Foundation and the president of the Association of Canadian Teaching Hospitals. Marsan was first elected in Robert-Baldwin in

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and was in charge of the electoral campaign program Pour un Quebec en Santé in

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. He was re-elected for a third term in

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and was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and Social Services and then the Secretary to

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. He was re-elected for a fourth term in

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and named the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities.

Political career

Fundraising controversy

On September 16, 2013, a journalist revealed a letter circulating in the Association sépharade de la banlieue ouest de Montréal signed by Pierre Marsan and his chief electoral officer, Aimé Bensoussan. The letter solicited contributions from members of the association, reminding them that the local Jewish community benefited from generous contributions, including a daycare permit, while the Liberals were in power. The

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and the

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strongly reacted to the event, claiming that this added to a long list of recent instances of corruption within the Quebec Liberal Party, which has favoured Liberal contributors in daycare permit attributions and other types of financial compensations. Pierre Marsan formally apologised for his "clumsy" gesture. Party leader

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qualified the incident as "unacceptable", declaring that such practices will never again take place in the party. On September 17, 2013, the

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, Jacques Drouin, declared that there would be an inquiry in the constituency of Robert-Baldwin following these events, upon which Pierre Marsan and Aimé Bensoussan would be called.
Lettre de Pierre Marsan: le DGE étudiera le dossier
Don Macpherson: Couillard can’t escape his party’s past
Pierre Marsan présente ses excuses concernant la lettre aux synagogues juives et le DGE s'en mêle

Sources

Electoral record (partial)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsan, Pierre 1948 births Living people Politicians from Montreal Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Université de Montréal alumni Université du Québec à Montréal alumni 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec 21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec