Jean-François Lisée
Jean-François Lisée (born February 13, 1958, in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is a separatist politician in Québec, Canada who was elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 Quebec election in the electoral district of Rosemont.
Prior to winning political office, he was a political analyst, journalist, author, intellectual and well-known sovereigntist thinker. He was special advisor to Parti Québécois Premiers of Quebec Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard. As of 2012, he was Executive Director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal. His work centered on Quebec sovereignty, the sociological phenomena affecting the latter's support, as well as the Quebec Model and social democracy in an era of globalization.
Biography
Jean-François Lisée holds degrees in Law, Journalism and Communication studies. He was, in the 1980s, a reporter in Paris and Washington for Quebec and French media. During that decade, he began an expansive investigation into 30 years of American political, diplomatic, financial and media attention toward Quebec and its independence movement, resulting in the book In the Eye of the Eagle, published in 1990. It won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction. Two books followed: Le Tricheur and Le Naufrageur; both highly critical of former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa. According to Lisee, his refusal to support sovereignty,in the context of the Meech Lake Accord failure,left many Quebec nationalists feeling betrayed.
In 1994, he became a "special advisor" to Parti Québécois Premier Jacques Parizeau and an important strategist for the 1995 Quebec referendum campaign. After the sovereignty-referendum-failure and the resulting resignation of Parizeau, Lisée became adviser to successor Lucien Bouchard. He resigned from this post in late 1999 because of disagreements over the sovereignty-strategy of the provincial PQ government. He explained his own strategy in 2000's Emergency Exit: How to Avert Quebec Decline.
Lisée was guest scholar from 2001 to 2003 at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) in Paris and at the Political Science Department of the Université de Montréal. He is currently the Executive Director of the International Studies Center at the Université de Montréal (CERIUM) as well as member of the Centre de recherche en politiques et développement social (CPDS) and founder of international politics website PolitiquesSociales.net. He periodically writes articles published in the current affairs magazine L'actualité.
Bibliography
- Des histoires du Québec selon Jean-François Lisée. 2012. Montréal : Les Éditions Rogers
- Le petit tricheur: Robert Bourassa derrière le masque. 2012. Montréal : Les Éditions Québec-Amérique. ISBN : 9782764421703
- Comment mettre la droite K.-O. en 15 arguments. 2012. Montréa, Les Éditions Stanké. ISBN : 9782760410985
- Troisième millénaire. 2011. Montréal : Les Éditions Stanké. ISBN : 9782760410855
- Imaginer l'Après-crise: Pistes pour un monde plus juste, équitable, durable. 2009. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782764607015
- Pour une gauche efficace. 2008. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782764606407
- Nous. 2007. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782764605677
- Sortie de Secours : Comment échapper au déclin du Québec. 2000. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782764600160
- Le Naufrageur. 1994. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782890526280
- Le Tricheur. 1994. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782890526211
- Les Prétendants. 1993. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782890525832
- Carrefours Amérique. 1990. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782890523647
- Dans l'œil de l'Aigle. 1990. Montréal : Les Éditions du Boréal. ISBN : 9782890523289
Awards
- Governor General's Award (1990)
- Jules-Fournier Award (1990)
Electoral record
| Quebec general election, 2012: Rosemont | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Parti Québécois | Jean-François Lisée | 16,780 | 43.67 | -6.99 | ||
| Liberal | Madwa-Nika Phanord-Cadet | 7,836 | 20.39 | -11.42 | ||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Léo Fradette | 6,657 | 17.33 | +11.04 | ||
| Québec solidaire | François Saillant | 5,564 | 14.48 | +6.26 | ||
| Option nationale | Johanne Lavoie | 1,079 | 2.81 | |||
| Bloc pot | Raynald St-Onge | 220 | 0.57 | |||
| Coalition pour la constituante | Daniel Guersan | 160 | 0.42 | |||
| Marxist-Leninist | Stéphane Chénier | 127 | 0.33 | +0.04 | ||
| Total valid votes | 38,423 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 446 | |||||
| Turnout | 38,869 | 76.10 | +17.43 | |||
| Electors on the lists | 51,073 | |||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. The CAQ percentage change totals are compared to the Action démocratique du Québec results from 2008. | ||||||
See also
External links
- His daily blog
- Biography and article archive on the CÉRIUM website
- PolitiqueSociales.net by Jean-François Lisée
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