Jean-Guy Poitras is a

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referee, originally from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, in northwest

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. He is a professor of

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at the Edmundston Campus of the

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and was Dean there from 1996 to 2001. He has been involved in badminton since the 1970s and has refereed more than 600 international matches, including those in the

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