G.-Raymond Laliberté

G.-Raymond Laliberté[1] (died June 8, 2008 in Québec[2]) was a teacher, trade unionist, politician and professor in Quebec, Canada.

Biography

G.-Raymond Laliberté studies pedagogy at Université de Montréal. He begins a career as a schoolteacher in 1955 in Verdun.[3]

In 1962, he starts working as a pedagogic counselor for the Corporation générale des instituteurs et institutrices catholiques de la province de Québec (CIC).[4]

In the 1963 federal general election, Laliberté is the candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Québec—Montmorency. He finishes in fourth place, with 5.29% of the vote.[5]

In 1965, Laliberté becomes the president of the Corporation des instituteurs et institutrices catholiques de la province de Québec (CIC), succeeding to Léopold Garant. During his tenure, in 1967 the CIC is deconfessionalized and changes its name to Corporation des enseignants du Québec (CEQ). The CEQ also begins another transformation by preparing a change of its status from a professional corporation to trade union organization (centrale syndicale). The CEQ votes to begin this process of transformation during its 1970 convention, when Laliberté term ends.[3] In 1970, Yvon Charbonneau succeeds Laliberté as president of the CEQ.[6]

On February 21, 1971 Laliberté is elected president of the New Democratic Party of Quebec during its convention in Montreal.[7] In the 1974 federal general election, he is the candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Québec-est. He finishes in fourth place, with 7.82% of the vote[8] Laliberté is president until 1974.

He begins studies in political science at Université Laval, where he earns a master's degree and, in 1981, a Ph.D.[4]

In 1973, he begins an academic career in the faculty of sciences of education of Université Laval.[4] and is a professor there until his retirement.

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, with other academics, he creates the Mouvement socialiste, a small political party of which he is the vice-president.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Also known as G. Raymond Laliberté, Raymond Laliberté and, more rarely, Gérard-Raymond Laliberté.
  2. ↑ G. Raymond Laliberté, avis de décès, June 12, 2008 (in French)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jean-François Piché, « Un syndicaliste exemplaire nous quitte », in Nouvelles CSQ, automne 2008, p.14 (in French)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 À la mémoire de M. Raymond Laliberté, professeur émérite retraité de la FSÉ, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, Université Laval, 26 juin 2008 (in French)
  5. ↑ Parliament of Canada, History of federal ridings since 1867, Québec--Montmorency (1963/04/08)
  6. ↑ Élection de Raymond Laliberté à la présidence de la Corporation des instituteurs et institutrices catholiques du Québec, Bilan du siècle, Université de Sherbrooke (in French)
  7. ↑ Tenue d'un congrès du Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec à Montréal, Bilan du siècle, Université de Sherbrooke (in French)
  8. ↑ Parliament of Canada, History of federal ridings since 1867, Québec-est (1974/07/08)