Jean-Yves Roy

Jean-Yves Roy (born July 21, 1949) is a retired Canadian politician.

He was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from the 2000 election until his resignation in 2010.

Born in Saint-Charles-Garnier, Quebec, Roy represented the districts of Matapédia—Matane until 2006 and then Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia for the following four years.

He was a city councillor in Pointe-au-Père, Quebec in 1981, and he was mayor from 1982 to 1986.

[1] He had been asked by Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe to make a decision as to his future due to his prolonged absences and announced in September that he would wait until after the Commons voted on a private members bill to abolish the long gun registry to resign so that he could vote for the registry's retention.