Michel Bissonnet,
MNA (born March 28, 1942) is a Canadian politician who served as
Liberal member and
President
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(House Speaker) of the
National Assembly of Quebec
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Background
Bissonnet obtained a
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in law at
Université de Montréal
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in 1976 and was admitted to the
Barreau du Québec the following year. Prior to his years as a lawyer, he worked for the City of
Montreal
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for 17 years in various positions including
archivist
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and assistant office manager.
NDP candidate
Bissonnet was formerly involved in the federal
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and its Quebec wing, the defunct
Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec. He was a candidate in the 1967 federal by-election for that party in the district of
Papineau. He finished third with 15% of the vote.
Liberal candidate André Ouellet was elected.
City politics
He ran as an ''Action Laval'' candidate for the city council of Laval in 1969 and served as mayor for the city of
Saint-Léonard from 1978 to 1981.
Member of the Provincial Legislature
Bissonnet successfully ran as the Liberal candidate in the district of
Jeanne-Mance
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in the
1981 election. He was re-elected in the
1985
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1989
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1994
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and
1998
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elections. He also won re-election in the merged district of
Jeanne-Mance–Viger in
2003
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and
2007
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Speaker
He served as Vice-President of the National Assembly during his third term of office from 1989 to 1994, Assistant
Whip
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of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and Third Vice-President of the National Assembly during his fifth term from 1999 to 2003. He became the President of the National Assembly (Speaker of the House) after the Liberal victory in 2003. In 2007, Bissonnet was reconfirmed as President of the National Assembly.
Borough Mayor
In July 2008, Bissonnet announced that he would leave provincial politics and run again for the mayoral position of Saint-Léonard, now a borough of Montreal following the
2002 amalgamation. He had become the longest serving MNA of the
38th National Assembly, even though he had never been appointed to the
Cabinet
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Bissonnet ran under Montreal Mayor
Gérald Tremblay's
Union Montreal label. An election had been called to fill the position in the aftermath of the resignation of
Frank Zampino
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Early life
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. Bissonnet was elected with 94.3% of the vote in September 2008, against Livio DiCelmo of
Projet Montréal.
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In the 2013 Montreal municipal elections, he was re-elected borough mayor of Saint-Léonard under Équipe Denis Coderre
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Electoral record (incomplete)
See also
*National Assembly of Quebec
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Footnotes
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1942 births
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