Robert Benoit was born on April 11,1944 and is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.
17 Facts About Robert Benoit
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Robert Benoit served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 2003 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Robert Benoit received an investment dealer's diploma in 1968 and was hired by Dominion Securities Quebec in the same year.
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Robert Benoit became active with the Liberal Party in 1978 and campaigned for the "non" side in the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
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Robert Benoit was president of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1985 to 1989 and led the party's finance committee for at least part of this time.
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Robert Benoit supported the unsuccessful Meech Lake Accord on reforming the Canadian constitution.
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For twenty-three years, Robert Benoit was the next-door neighbour of Canadian author Mordechai Richler.
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Robert Benoit was chosen as the Liberal candidate for Orford in the 1989 provincial election, despite objections from some local organizers who regarded him as a candidate of the party establishment.
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Robert Benoit was appointed as parliamentary assistant to the premier on November 29,1989, and served in this position until December 14,1993.
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Robert Benoit campaigned in Quebec's Eastern Townships in support of the Charlottetown Accord on Canadian constitutional reform in 1992.
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Robert Benoit was re-elected in the 1994 election as the Liberals lost government to the Parti Quebecois.
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Robert Benoit later became one of the first Quebec Liberal MNAs to encourage federal Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest to seek the Quebec Liberal leadership in 1998.
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Robert Benoit was elected to a third term in the 1998 provincial election.
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The Parti Quebecois were re-elected provincially, and Robert Benoit served as his party's critic for the environment.
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Robert Benoit did not seek re-election in 2003, standing aside for star candidate Pierre Reid.
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Robert Benoit strongly opposed the Charest government's decision to sell part of the Mont-Orford National Park to private developers in 2006.
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Robert Benoit helped form the group SOS Parc Mont-Orford to lobby against the sale and tried to overturn the decision via an emergency resolution within the Liberal Party.