Guy Boutilier
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| Guy C. Boutilier | |
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| Assumed office November 22, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | New district |
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MLA for Fort McMurray
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| In office March 11, 1997 – November 22, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Adam Germain |
| Succeeded by | District abolished |
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Alberta Minister of International, Intergovernmental, and Aboriginal Relations
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| In office December 15, 2006 – March 12, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Pearl Calahasen (Aboriginal Affairs) Gary Mar (International and Intergovernmental Relations) |
| Succeeded by | Gene Zwozdesky (Aboriginal Affairs) Ron Stevens (International and Intergovernmental Relations) |
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Alberta Minister of the Environment
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| In office November 24, 2004 – December 15, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Lorne Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Rob Renner |
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Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs
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| In office March 15, 2001 – November 24, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Pazkowski |
| Succeeded by | Rob Renner |
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Mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
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| In office April 1, 1995 – 1997 |
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| Preceded by | New municipality |
| Succeeded by | Doug Faulkner |
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Mayor of Fort McMurray
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| In office October 22, 1992 – April 1, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | E.C. (Betty) Collicott |
| Succeeded by | City lost its charter |
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Fort McMurray alderman
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| In office October 20, 1986 – October 22, 1992 |
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| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse | Gail |
| Residence | Fort McMurray |
| Alma mater | St. Francis Xavier University St. Mary's University Harvard University |
Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He sits as a Progressive Conservative, and has served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach. Before entering provincial politics during the 1997 Alberta election, he was involved in municipal politics, having served two terms on the city council of Fort McMurray before being elected mayor of that city in 1992. When Fort McMurray was amalgamated with the surrounding area to form the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in 1995, Boutilier served as the new municipality's first mayor.
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[edit] Early life
Guy Boutilier earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Education from St. Mary's University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.[1] He has worked as a financial analyst in the petroleum industry and as a business management instructor at Keyano College.[1] He has also lectured at the University of Alberta's school of business.[1]
[edit] Political career
[edit] Municipal politics
Boutilier was elected to the Fort McMurray city council on October 20, 1986 to a three year term as alderman. He was re-elected October 16, 1989, and was elected the youngest mayor in the city's history October 22, 1992.[2] He served in this capacity until April 1, 1995, when Fort McMurray lost its status as a city and was rolled into the new Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.[2] He was the first mayor of this new municipality, serving until 1997 when he resigned to enter provincial politics.[2]
[edit] Provincial politics
Boutilier was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1997 Alberta election, when he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Fort McMurray.[3] The incumbent Liberal, Adam Germain, was not seeking re-election, and Boutilier won by defeating John Vyboh by more than a thousand votes.[3] As a backbencher, he moved several bills: the Mines and Minerals Amendment Act was a 1997 government bill designed to enable the implementation of a generic royalty regime for new development in the Alberta oilsands and streamline the process for land leases to oil and gas companies by moving administrative elements from legislation to regulation.[4][5] The bill passed with Liberal support, but New Democratic leader Pam Barrett opposed the bill out of concerns that it left the legislature out of debates in which it should play a role and provided overly-generous incentives to oil companies without requiring anything from them in return.[5][6] Also in 1997, Boutilier sponsored the Cost Declaration Accountability Act, a private member's bill that never reached second reading.[4]
In 1998, Boutilier sponsored two more bills.[7] The Railway Act was a government bill that modernized the rules governing the operation of railways in Alberta.[8] The Liberals expressed general support for the bill,[9] but ultimately opposed it on the basis of a clause that allowed cabinet to make regulations on "any matter that the Minister considers is not provided for or is insufficiently provided for" in the Act, which they considered to be dangerously broad.[10] The bill passed.[7] The same year, Boutilier sponsored the Government Accountability Amendment Act,[7] a private member's bill that would have required all government bills to include an associated financial cost to come before the legislature with an estimate of those costs for the ensuing three years.[9] The bill was hoisted for six months on second reading on a motion by Wayne Cao, which, since the legislature was not in session six months later, effectively killed the bill.[11][7]
He was re-elected in the 2001 election with a substantially increased margin over Vyboh.[12] Following the 2001 election, Premier Ralph Klein named Boutilier to his cabinet as the Minister of Municipal Affairs.[13] In this capacity, Boutilier sponsored the Municipal Government Amendment Act in 2003.[14] The Act allowed municipalities to charge developers off-site road levies, a practice which had been common but which had recently been successfully challenged in court, and passed largely without controversy.[15][16][17] Boutilier kept the municipal affairs until after the 2004 election (in which he was again re-elected handily, this time in the newly-formed Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo riding),[18] when Klein transferred him to the post of Minister of the Environment.[19] He held this post in 2005, when a Canadian National Railway train derailed, spilling oil into Wabamun Lake.[20] At the time, Boutilier described himself as "damn well pissed off" about the spill and about the allegation that CN had neglected to report that the spill contained carcinogenic chemical, and pledged "to bring to the full extent of the law anyone who has breached Alberta law."[21] CN was eventually charged under federal statutes.[22] He was also at the forefront of his government's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, at one point slipping his Québec counterpart Thomas Mulcair a note during a United Nations conference on the subject in Montréal, which Mulcair interpreted as a request that Québec soften its support of Kyoto in exchange for investment in the Montreal Stock Exchange by Alberta industry.[23] Boutilier characterized the note as "discussions in terms of what we would want to be able to do in a positive environmental initiative" and denied that he was trying to influence Quebec's position.[23]
In the 2006 Progressive Conservative leadership contest, Boutilier initially backed Lyle Oberg,[24] and switched his support to eventual winner Ed Stelmach after Oberg was eliminated on the first ballot.[25] When Stelmach succeeded Klein as premier, he named a smaller cabinet than Klein's.[26] This included a merger of the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio with Intergovernmental and International Relations, and Stelmach gave the expanded portfolio to Boutilier.[27] Boutilier was re-elected by another expanded margin in the 2008 election,[28] but was not named to Stelmach's new cabinet, making him the only returning member of the pre-election cabinet not to receive a portfolio.[29] His demotion was met with protest in his home riding, which contains much of the oilsands activity driving Alberta's economy at the time, and the local Progressive Conservative riding association sent a letter of protest to Stelmach.[30][31]
[edit] Personal life
Boutilier is married to Gail.[1]
[edit] Election results
| 2008 Alberta general election results (Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo) | Turnout 21.6% | |||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Guy Boutilier | 4,534 | 63.5% | |
| Liberal | Ross Jacobs | 1,751 | 24.5% | |
| NDP | Mel Kraley | 550 | 7.7% | |
| Green | Reg Normore | 301 | 4.2% | |
| 2004 Alberta general election results (Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo) | Turnout 26.4% | |||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Guy Boutilier | 4,429 | 63.2% | |
| Liberal | Russell Collicott | 1,800 | 25.7% | |
| NDP | Dave Malka | 460 | 6.6% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Eugene Eklund | 224 | 3.2% | |
| Independent | Reg Normore | 94 | 1.3% | |
| 2001 Alberta general election results (Fort McMurray) | Turnout 38.0% | |||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Guy Boutilier | 5,914 | 64.4% | |
| Liberal | John Vyboh | 1,759 | 19.2% | |
| NDP | Lyn Gorman | 1,498 | 16.3% | |
| 1997 Alberta general election results (Fort McMurray) | Turnout 45.6% | |||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Guy Boutilier | 5,420 | 55.8% | |
| Liberal | John Vyboh | 4,008 | 41.3% | |
| NDP | Rodney McCallum | 280 | 2.9% | |
[edit] External links
| 13th Ministry - Government of Ed Stelmach | ||
| Cabinet Posts (1) | ||
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| Predecessor | Office | Successor |
| Pearl Calahasen Gary Mar |
Minister of International, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Relations (2006–2008) Portfolios merged when Boutilier took them over, re-separated once he left |
Ron Stevens Gene Zwozdesky |
| 12th Ministry - Government of Ralph Klein | ||
| Cabinet Posts (2) | ||
| Predecessor | Office | Successor |
| Lorne Taylor | Minister of the Environment (2004–2006) |
Rob Renner |
| Walter Paszkowski | Minister of Municipal Affairs (2001–2004) |
Rob Renner |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Guy Boutilier's Legislative Assembly of Alberta biography at archive.org (viewable, downloadable film)
- ^ a b c "Guy Boutilier's testimony before the AEUB", Edmonton Journal, November 29, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-25.
- ^ a b Alberta's past election results. Retrieved on 2008-03-06.
- ^ a b Bill Status Report for the 24th Legislature - 1st Session (1997). Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, May 13, 1997
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, May 27, 1997
- ^ a b c d Bill Status Report for the 24th Legislature - 2nd Session (1998). Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, March 3, 1998
- ^ a b Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, March 10, 1998
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, April 21, 1998
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, March 11, 1998
- ^ 2001 Alberta provincial election results, Fort McMurray. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Edmonton mayor likes cabinet makeup", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 16, 2001. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ Bill Status Report for the 25th Legislature - 3rd Session (2003). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, November 27, 2003
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, December 2, 1998
- ^ Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, December 3, 1998
- ^ 2004 Alberta provincial election results, Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
- ^ New cabinet team will be "strong, united and focused," Klein says. University of Alberta, department of External Relations (April 6, 2006). Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Province unprepared for Wabamun spill: Klein", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 11, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Angry Alberta residents await test results", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 10, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ Brooymans, Hanneke. "Three charges against CN for Wabamun spill", Edmonton Journal, March 18, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ a b De Souza, Mike. "Kyoto proposal sensationalized, politician says", CanWest News Services, November 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ Johnsrude, Larry (November 10, 2006). Dinning in Oilers colours. Edmonton Journal. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Alberta politicians pick sides in leadership race", Canadian broadcasting corporation, November 28, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Stelmach announces smaller cabinet, royalty review", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, December 13, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Stelmach names smaller cabinet", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, December 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ Alberta 2008 provincial election results, Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ Braid, Don. "Stelmach cabinet snubs Fort McMurray", Calgary Herald, March 15, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ Gerein, Keith. "Fort McMurray dismayed over Boutilier's exclusion", Edmonton Journal, March 13, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Dismay grows over benching of Boutilier", Edmonton Sun, March 18, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
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