Pierre Marsan

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Pierre Marsan
MNA for Robert-Baldwin
Incumbent
Assumed office September 12, 1994
Preceded by	Sam Elkas
Personal details
Born	(1948-06-29) June 29, 1948 Montreal, Quebec
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party
Portfolio	Immigration, cultural communities

Pierre Marsan (born June 29, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Robert-Baldwin in the Montreal region. He represents the Quebec Liberal Party.

Marsan went to the Université du Québec à Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration and would add a master's degree in health administration at Université de Montréal. He was a guest teacher in the faculty of administration at the Université de Montréal and was a director in hospital services at the Hotel-Dieu's Saint-Jérôme Hospital. He was the general manager at the Montreal Heart Institute and the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur. He was an assistant director at Santa Cabrini Hospital. He was also a board member for several institutions including the Montreal Heart Institute, the Epic Foundation, the Hôpital du Sacré Coeur Foundation and the president of the Association of Canadian Teaching Hospitals.

Marsan was first elected in Robert-Baldwin in 1994 and was in charged for the electoral campaign program Pour un Quebec en Santé in 1998. He was re-elected for a third term in 2003 and was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and Social Services and then the Secretary to Jean Charest. He was re-elected for a fourth term in 2007 and named the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minster of Immigration and Cultural Communities.

Political career

Fundraising controversy

On September 16, 2013, a journalist revealed a letter circulating in the Association sépharade de la banlieue ouest de Montréal signed by Pierre Marsan and his chief electoral officer, Aimé Bensoussan. The letter solicited contributions from members of the association, reminding them that the local Jewish community benefitted from generous contributions, including a daycare permit, while the Liberals were in power.^[1]

The Parti québécois and the Coalition Avenir Québec strongly reacted to the event, claiming that this added to a long list of recent instances of corruption within the Quebec Liberal Party, which has favoured Liberal contributors in daycare permit attributions and other types of financial compensations.

Pierre Marsan formally apologised for his "clumsy" gesture. Party leader Philippe Couillard qualified the incident as "unacceptable", declaring that such practices will never again take place in the party.^[2]

On September 17, 2013, the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec, Jacques Drouin, declared that there would be an inquiry in the constituency of Robert-Baldwin following these events, upon which Pierre Marsan and Aimé Bensoussan will be called.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Sources

↑ PRIMEUR 24h - Des libéraux courtisent la communauté juive
↑ Le PQ réclame une enquête du DGEQ
↑ ,Lettre de Pierre Marsan: le DGE étudiera le dossier
↑ Don Macpherson: Couillard can’t escape his party’s past
↑ Pierre Marsan présente ses excuses concernant la lettre aux synagogues juives et le DGE s'en mêle

Electoral record (partial)

v t e Quebec general election, 1994: Robert-Baldwin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Liberal	Pierre Marsan	29,865	82.98	+36.93
	Parti Québécois	Nicolas Tétrault	3,541	9.84	-3.09
	Equality	Bart Sellitto	969	2.69	-38.33
	Action démocratique	Mario Pilote Jr.	909	2.53	–
	CANADA!	Harry Polansky	364	1.01	–
	Natural Law	Ruby Finkelstein	123	0.34	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Robert Charles	120	0.33	–
	Innovator	Martin Leduc	99	0.28	–
Total valid votes			35,990	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			291
Turnout			36,281	85.17
Electors on the lists			42,600
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec

Parti Québécois	Marois Beaudoin Bédard Bergeron Bérubé Blanchet Bouillé Breton Bureau-Blouin Cardin Champagne Chapadeau Claveau Cloutier Cousineau De Courcy Drainville Duchesne Dufour Ferland S. Gaudreault Gendron Goyer Hamelin Hébert Hivon Kotto Larouche Leclair Léger Lelièvre Lisée Malavoy Maltais Marceau McKay Ouellet Pagé E. Pelletier I. Pelletier Poirier Proulx J. Richard L. Richard Richer Sylvain Roy St-Arnaud Therrien Traversy Trottier L. Trudel Turcotte Villeneuve Zakaïb

Quebec Liberal Party¹	Fournier Arcand Bergman Billette Blais G. Bolduc Y. Bolduc Boulet Carrière Chagnon Charbonneau Charlebois D'Amour de Santis Diamond Drolet Dutil M. Gaudreault Gautrin Hamad Houda-Pepin Iraca James Kelley L'Écuyer Lessard Marcoux Marsan Ménard Moreau Morin Ouellette F. Ouimet G. Ouimet Paradis Poeti Reid Rotiroti Rousselle Sklavounos St-Amand St-Pierre Tanguay Thériault Vallée Vallières Vien Weil

Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Bonnardel Caire Daneault Deltell Dubé Duchesneau Le Bouyonnec Lévesque Marcotte Martel Picard N. Roy Sylvie Roy Schneeberger Spénard St-Laurent D. Trudel

Québec solidaire	David Khadir

Independent	Ratthé

¹ Party leader Philippe Couillard is not currently a sitting MNA.

Persondata
Name	Marsan, Pierre
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	June 29, 1948
Place of birth	Montreal, Quebec
Date of death
Place of death

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