{{Short description|Canadian politician (1944–2025)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Guy Lauzon | honorific_suffix = | image = Guy Lauzon - 2017 (27055060029) (cropped).jpg | alt = Guy Lauzon in 2017 | caption = Lauzon in 2017 | parliament = Canadian | term_start = June 28, 2004 | term_end = September 11, 2019 | predecessor = Bob Kilger | successor = Eric Duncan | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|04|06}} | birth_place = St. Andrew's West, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|06|22|1944|04|06}} | death_place = Cornwall, Ontario, Canada | profession = Insurance, agribusiness | party = Conservative | riding = Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry | footnotes = | office2 = Chair of the Conservative Party of Canada Parliamentary Caucus | term_start2 = November 3, 2008 | term_end2 = November 4, 2015 | predecessor2 = Rahim Jaffer | successor2 = David Sweet | office3 = Chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages | minister3 = Josée Verner | term_start3 = May 9, 2006 | term_end3 = May 30, 2007 | predecessor3 = Pablo Rodriguez | successor3 = Steven Blaney | spouse = Frances Lauzon }}
'''Guy Lauzon''' ({{IPA|fr|gi lozɔ̃|lang}}; April 6, 1944 – June 22, 2025) was a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party.
==Background== Lauzon was born in St. Andrew's West, Ontario and his family roots in the region can be traced to the 19th century.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
Lauzon spent over twenty-two years in the federal public service and served as a local union president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. During the 1990s, he served as chair of the HDRC's United Way and multiple sclerosis research funding campaigns. He retired in 1993, and was until his death, the general manager of Tri-County Protein, a soybean processing plant in Winchester, Ontario.
==Federal politics== In the 2000 federal election, Lauzon ran as the Canadian Alliance candidate in Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh, and finished second behind incumbent Liberal Bob Kilger.
===38th Parliament=== The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party were merged in 2003, and Lauzon ran as a Conservative in the 2004 election and garnered almost 4,000 votes more than his nearest rival, incumbent Bob Kilger.
Lauzon was appointed the Conservative Party critic for the Treasury Board and Official Languages Committee.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
===39th Parliament=== In the 2006 federal election, Lauzon was chosen once more to represent the Conservative Party as the candidate for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry. He won 54.7% of the popular vote, defeating his nearest challenger, Tom Manley, by over 14,000 votes.
In 2006, Lauzon was appointed to the deputy whip position of the Conservative party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/guy-lauzon(25516)/roles |title= Roles - Guy Lauzon |work=Parliament of Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624082828/https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/guy-lauzon(25516)/roles |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
In the spring of 2007, Lauzon was ousted from his position as the Official Languages Committee chair in a non-confidence vote (by all three opposition parties) for cancelling a scheduled meeting moments before witnesses were to testify.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=585e5d38-dfe4-4929-a78c-a054a582f402 |title=Tories' dirty little tricks |work=The Gazette |location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada |date=May 19, 2007 |access-date=June 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181212/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=585e5d38-dfe4-4929-a78c-a054a582f402 |archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> The hearing was being held to examine the cancellation of a Court Challenges Program, to which the government cut funding. The Conservative government then, following procedures from what the media dubbed the "obstruction manual,"<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/tories-blasted-for-handbook-on-paralyzing-parliament-1.241797 |title=Tories blasted for handbook on paralyzing Parliament |date=May 18, 2007 |work=CTV News |agency=The Canadian Press |location=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120144628/http://www.ctvnews.ca/tories-blasted-for-handbook-on-paralyzing-parliament-1.241797 |archive-date=November 20, 2023 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref> decided not to nominate a new chair, shutting down the committee's work.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tories-program-cut-breaches-language-act-commissioner-1.644066 |title=Tories' program cut breaches language act: commissioner |date=May 15, 2007 |work=CBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624084203/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tories-program-cut-breaches-language-act-commissioner-1.644066 |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
On October 10, 2007, Lauzon was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture and agri-food and for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.grainews.ca/daily/ont-mp-named-ag-secretary-in-shuffle/ |title=Ont. MP named ag secretary in shuffle |date=October 10, 2007 |work=Grainews |publisher=Glacier FarmMedia Limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624083319/https://www.grainews.ca/daily/ont-mp-named-ag-secretary-in-shuffle/ |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
===40th Parliament=== On November 3, 2008, almost a month following that year's federal election, Lauzon was appointed chairman of the Conservative Caucus, succeeding defeated Alberta MP Rahim Jaffer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lauzon-chosen-as-caucus-chairman/article20389765 |title=Lauzon chosen as caucus chairman |date=November 3, 2008 |work=The Globe and Mail |location=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624084319/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lauzon-chosen-as-caucus-chairman/article20389765/ |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2008/11/prime-minister-harper-names-guy-lauzon-chair-government-caucus.html |title=Prime Minister Harper Names Guy Lauzon as Chair of the Government Caucus |date= November 3, 2008 |location=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624084723/https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2008/11/prime-minister-harper-names-guy-lauzon-chair-government-caucus.html |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
===41st Parliament=== Lauzon introduced a bill, C-350, which would ensure any monetary awards owed to an offender as a result of legal action are first used to resolve financial obligations to victims and family members, such as child support dues.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mask-ban-bill-passes-house-of-commons-vote-1.1202553 |title=Mask ban bill passes House of Commons vote |date=October 31, 2012 |last=Payton |first=Laura |work=CBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624085019/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mask-ban-bill-passes-house-of-commons-vote-1.1202553 |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
===42nd Parliament=== Lauzon announced on January 26, 2019 that he would not be running in the 2019 election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/news/regional/2019/1/26/mp-guy-lauzon-announces-his-retirement.html |title=MP Guy Lauzon announces his retirement |date=January 26, 2019 |last=Seebruch |first=Jay |work=Seaway News |location=Bonville, Ontario, Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624085151/https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/news/mp-guy-lauzon-announces-his-retirement/ |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
== Death == Lauzon died at a hospice facility in Cornwall, Ontario on June 22, 2025, at the age of 81.<ref>[https://www.wilsonfuneralhome.ca/memorials/mp-guy-lauzon/5609534/ MP Guy Lauzon] obituary</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.morrisburgleader.ca/2025/06/23/former-mp-guy-lauzon-dies/ |title=Former MP Guy Lauzon dies |date=June 23, 2025 |last=Blancher |first=Phillip |work=Morrisburg Leader |location=Cornwall, Ontario, Canada |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250624085726/https://www.morrisburgleader.ca/2025/06/23/former-mp-guy-lauzon-dies/|archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref> He was predeceased by his wife Frances, who died in August 2021.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard-freeholder.com/news/local-news/community-mourning-the-loss-of-frances-lauzon-wife-of-guy-lauzon |title=Community mourning the loss of Frances Lauzon, wife of Guy Lauzon |date=August 20, 2021 |last=Hambleton |first=Todd |work=Cornwall Standard-Freeholder |publisher=Postmedia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624085930/https://www.standard-freeholder.com/news/local-news/community-mourning-the-loss-of-frances-lauzon-wife-of-guy-lauzon |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref>
==Electoral record== {{Canadian election result/top|CA|2015|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Guy Lauzon|27,091|51.1|-11.00|–}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Bernadette Clement|20,452|38.5|+20.60|–}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Patrick Burger|4,332|8.2|-9.3|–}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Elaine Kennedy|1,191|2.2|0|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/expense limit|53,066|100.0 | |$212,533.29}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|234|0.43|+0.03}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|53,300|67.72|+5.02}} {{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|78,706}} {{CANelec/hold|CA|Conservative|-15.80}} {{CANelec/source|Source: Elections Canada<ref>[http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/candidates?L=e&ED=35102&EV=41&EV_TYPE=1&PC=&PROV=ON&PROVID=35&MAPID=&QID=8&PAGEID=17&TPAGEID=&PD=&STAT_CODE_ID=-1 Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, 30 September 2015]</ref><ref>[http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/canlim&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates]</ref>}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2011|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Guy Lauzon|29,538|62.1|+4.8|–}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Bernadette Clement|8,510|17.9|-1.1|–}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Mario Leclerc|8,313|17.5|+4.0|–}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|David Rawnsley|1,038|2.2|-2.0|–}} {{CANelec|CA|Libertarian|Darcy Neal Donnelly|151|0.3|–|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/expense limit|47,550|100.0| |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|205|0.4|0.0}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|47,755|62.7|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters| 76,140 |–|– }} {{CANelec/hold|CA|Conservative|+2.95}} {{end}} {{2008 Canadian federal election/Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2006|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Guy Lauzon |28,014|54.7|+9.9|$75,147}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Tom Manley |13,906|27.2|-9.6|$74,262}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Elaine MacDonald|6,892|13.5|+2.3|$11,977}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Doug Beards|1,713|3.4|-3.9|$4,415}} {{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|Carson Chisholm|663|1.3| n/a|$12,633}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|51,188|100.0}} {{CANelec/hold|CA|Conservative|+9.75}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2004|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Guy Lauzon |21,678|44.8|-3.1}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Bob Kilger |17,779|36.8|-10.41}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Elaine MacDonald |5,387|11.1|+7.04}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Tom Manley |3,491|7.2|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 48,335|100.0}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|277|0.60|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|48,612|64.5|–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|75,230}} {{CANelec/gain|CA|Conservative|Liberal|+7.3}} {{end}} {{2000 Canadian federal election/Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name| 10818794}} * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=12760}}
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