Denis Lazure (October 12, 1925 – February 23, 2008) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) from 1976 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1996. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person The National Assembly of Quebec (Assemblée nationale du Québec is the name for the legislative body of the province of Quebec, Canada. [1]
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Background
He was born on October 12, 1925 in Napierville, Quebec and became a psychiatrist. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Napierville is a village in the Jardins de Napierville Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada A psychiatrist (also archaically called an alienist) is a Physician who specializes in Psychiatry and is certified in treating Mental disorders He is the father of actress Gabrielle Lazure. Lazure attended Université de Montréal and was a doctorate in medicine. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the He also attended the University of Pennsylvania in psychiatry as well as the University of Toronto in which he was bachelor in hospital administration. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus
Lazure was the founder of the infant psychiatry department of Saint-Justine Hospital in 1957. The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine ( CHU Sainte-Justine) or Sainte-Justine University Health Center is a pediatric University health centre affiliated He was also the director of this hospital as well as those of Riviere-des-Prairies and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine all in the Montreal region. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec He would later be the director in 1974 of the first psychiatric hospital in Haiti. Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: He was also a teacher at Université de Montréal and was the President of the Canadian Association of Psychiatrists.
Federal politics
Before being a Quebec MNA, Lazure ran twice for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate for the New Democratic Party. The House of Commons (Chambre des communes is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and Principles policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populist, agrarian and democratic socialist roots He finished second in a by-election in the district of Outremont—Saint-Jean in 1967 and finished third in the district of Gamelin in the 1968 federal election. A by-election or bye-election (called special election in the United States) is an Election held to fill a political office that has become vacant Outremont is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1949 For the current|defunct federal|provincial electoral district see Gamelin (electoral district ---> Gamelin was a federal electoral district The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on June 25, 1968, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 28th Parliament
Member of the National Assembly
He was first elected to the Quebec provincial legislature in the Chambly riding as a member of the Parti Québécois in the 1976 elections and was re-elected in 1981 in Bertrand (now Marguerite-D'Youville). Members of Legislative Assembly Jean-Baptiste Jodoin, Conservative Party (1867-1871 Gédéon Larocque, Liberal The Parti Québécois ' is a Sovereignist Political party that advocates national sovereignty for the Canadian province of Quebec and The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada Members of the National Assembly Bertrand (Monteregie riding Denis Lazure, Parti Québécois (1981-1984 Robert Bourassa, Liberal During his first mandate he was appointed to the Cabinet by René Lévesque. The Executive Council of Quebec (informally and more commonly the Cabinet of Quebec and in French Le Conseil des ministres) is the Cabinet of the government Lazure served as Minister of Social Affairs and, after his re-election, as State Minister of Social Development. A minister or a secretary is a Politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional Government.
During the Parti Québécois Crisis of 1984, Lazure, who is identified with the purs et durs faction of his party, resigned from the Cabinet and from the legislature. The Parti Québécois Crisis of 1984 was one of the most severe internal party crises in Quebec politics. Pur et dur (a common expression in French literally meaning "pure and hard" is a term used in Quebec politics to refer to hardliners of the Parti Québécois He eventually supported the return of Jacques Parizeau as party leader. Jacques Parizeau GOQ (born August 9, 1930) is an Economist and noted Sovereignist (the term commonly used in Quebec
Political comeback
He would become a psychiatrist at the Greenfield hospital until he ran again in 1989, where he was elected in La Prairie. Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. The Quebec general election of 1989 was held on September 25, 1989, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Members of Legislative Assembly La Prairie Césaire Therien, Conservative Party (1867-1871 Andrew Esinhart, Conservative He was re-elected in 1994 but resigned in 1996. The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada He returned to his professional career after. His work contribution was rewarded with an award given by the Psychiatric Doctors Association of Quebec in 2004.
Death
Lazure died on February 23, 2008. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [2]
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See also
| National Assembly of Quebec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Guy Saint-Pierre (Liberal) |
MNA, District of Chambly 1976–1981 |
Succeeded by Luc Tremblay (Parti Québécois) |
| Preceded by District created in 1980 |
MNA, District of Bertrand 1981–1984 |
Succeeded by Robert Bourassa (Liberal) |
| Preceded by Jean-Pierre Saintonge (Liberal) |
MNA, District of La Prairie 1989–1996 |
Succeeded by Monique Simard (Parti Québécois) |