Gilbert Paquette

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Gilbert Paquette (born October 19, 1942, in Montreal, Quebec) is a researcher at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur le téléapprentissage (CIRTA-LICEF), which he founded in 1992, and a Quebec politician. He was National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Rosemont from 1976 to 1985 under the Parti Québécois banner and in the final months of his second term as an Independent MNA.

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Gilbert Paquette is a professor at UQAM. He holds a master's degree in computer science and mathematics and a doctorate from the University of Maine in artificial intelligence and education. He holds a Canada Research Chair. He was the scientific director of the LORNET network, arguably the largest Canadian Semantic Web initiative. LORNET ran in the period 2003-2008.

He has been the keynote speaker of several international conferences and he is part in the board of five journals. He also founded two companies, Micro-Intel (1987–1991) and Cogigraph (1999–2004).

Paquette was Minister of Sciences and Technology from 1982 to 1984 in the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque. He made a comeback on the political scene in 2005 when he joined the Parti Québécois leadership election to succeed Bernard Landry. On November 10, 2005 he withdrew from the race and asked his supporters to vote for Pauline Marois.

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Electoral record (partial)

Quebec general election, 1981: Rosemont
Party Candidate Votes%±pp
     Parti Québécois Gilbert Paquette 17,137 52.69
LiberalGérard Latulippe 14,434 44.38
Union NationaleNicole Caron 588 1.81 –
     Workers Communist Jocelyne Lachapelle 214 0.66
     Workers Réal Labonté 109 0.34
     Marxist-Leninist Francine Tremblay 42 0.13
Total valid votes 32,524 100.00
Rejected and declined votes 364
Turnout 32,888 82.69
Electors on the lists 39,775

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National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by
Gilles Bellemare (Liberal)		 MNA for Rosemont
1976–1985 		Succeeded by
Guy Rivard (Liberal)
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