[1] He was for many years a close friend of prominent Canadian politician Jean Charest, whom he first met in high school.
Fortier received 4,548 votes (7.98%) in the 1993 election for a third-place finish against Bloc Québécois candidate Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral.
[5] Charest's provincial Liberals won the 2003 election, and Fortier was subsequently appointed as director of economic development at Quebec Government House of New York City.
Quebec cabinet minister Monique Gagnon-Tremblay said that Fortier lacked the necessary judgement for the role and "undertook modifications, transformations at the delegation without ...
[9] The Quebec government held public hearings on the matter in 2008, in which Charest testified that he was not involved in either Fortier's hiring or his dismissal.
Following the Progressive Conservative Party's defeat in the election, Monson described the national PC campaign as "a big blue machine that didn't know how to change".
Three years later, newspaper reports indicated that he was willing to let an American company use his ash tree property as a testing site for a pesticide called Perma-Guard D-20.
She worked for various cabinet ministers during the Brian Mulroney government, including Marcel Masse (Canada NewsWire, 11 June 1988).
After the election, he noted that "Parkdale-High Park reacted like the rest of the country and said it's time for big change" (Toronto Star, 26 October 1993).
[27] On election day, he received 9,529 votes (20.63%) for a third-place finish against Liberal candidate Andy Mitchell.
[29] Clark won the Progressive Conservative nomination for Provencher in a close contest against two strong candidates, prevailing by 21 votes on the final ballot.
[30] In the general election, Clark received 3,765 votes (10.29%) for a third-place finish against Liberal candidate David Iftody.
[34] Guy Lever was a thirty-five-year-old real estate developer living in Knowlton at the time of the election.
[35] A relative political unknown, he was joined on several campaign stops by party leader Jean Charest, who represented the neighbouring riding of Sherbrooke.