Robert Dutil

Robert Dutil
MNA for Beauce-Sud
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 6, 2008
Preceded by Claude Morin
In office
December 2, 1985 – September 12, 1994
Preceded by Hermann Mathieu
Succeeded by Paul-Eugène Quirion
Personal details
Born April 16, 1950 (1950-04-16) (age 61)
Saint-Georges, Quebec
Political party Quebec Liberal Party
Cabinet Minister of Public Safety

Robert Dutil is a Canadian businessman, a politician from Quebec and a two-term member of the National Assembly of Quebec.[1]

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Background

He was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec on April 16, 1950. He is the grandson of politician Édouard Lacroix and the brother of businessman Marcel Dutil.

Education

Dutil obtained a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1973 and a master's degree in business administration in 1982 both from Laval University.

Local politics

Dutil served in Saint-Georges as Council Member from 1975 to 1979 and as Mayor from 1979 to 1985. He was a prefect for the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality from 1982 to 1985.

Member of the provincial legislature

He ran as a Liberal candidate in the provincial district of Beauce-Sud in the 1985 election and won. He was appointed to Premier Robert Bourassa's Cabinet in 1985 and was in charge of different portfolios, including Communications and Supply and Services. He was re-elected in the 1989 election, but did not run for re-election in the 1994 election.

He returned to provincial politics in 2008 and was elected in Beauce-Sud defeating Claude Morin. He was made Revenue Minister on December 18, 2008, replacing Jean-Marc Fournier who did not seek a re-election. Following a 2010 Cabinet Shuffle, Dutil was named Minister of Public Safety replacing retiring St-Laurent MLA, long-time Minister and former Deputy Premier Jacques Dupuis.

L’Union du Centre

Dutil is the founder and the current leader of Union du centre. His provincial political party opposes a subsidy program that only benefits certain regions of Quebec such as Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Dutil claims that the policy, which was enacted under the Parti Québécois and sustained by the Liberals, has resulted in unfair competition against the business community of other non-subsidized regions, such as Chaudière-Appalaches where he lives.[2][3]

He reconciled with the Liberal Party and is running for them in his old riding of Beauce-Sud.[4]

Business interests

Since 2002, Dutil is Vice-President of Structal-ponts, a division of Canam Manac Group. He was also in the 1970s and 1980s co-owner of several businesses mostly in the Saint-Georges area. He was also president or vice-president for several other small businesses from 1996 to 2008.

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Jean-Marc Fournier
Minister of Revenue
2008–2010
Succeeded by
Raymond Bachand
Preceded by
Jacques P. Dupuis
Minister of Public Safety
2010–present
Succeeded by
incumbent
National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by
Hermann Mathieu (Liberal)
MNA, District of Beauce-Sud (1st time)
19851994
Succeeded by
Paul-Eugène Quirion (Liberal)
Preceded by
Claude Morin
MNA, District of Beauce-Sud (2nd time)
2008–present
Succeeded by
incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Party founded in 2008
Leader of L’Union du Centre
2008–Current
Succeeded by
Incumbent