Jacques Baril

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Jacques Baril |honorific_suffix = |image = |alt = |caption = |constituency_AM1 = [[Arthabaska (electoral district)|Arthabaska]] |assembly1 = Quebec National |majority1 = |term_start1 = 1976 |term_end1 = 1985 |predecessor1 = [[Jean-Gilles Massé]] |successor1 = [[Laurier Gardner]] |term_start2 = 1989 |term_end2 = 2003 |predecessor2 = [[Laurier Gardner]] |successor2 = [[Claude Bachand (MNA)|Claude Bachand]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|2|6}} |birth_place = [[Princeville, Quebec]] |resting_place_coordinates = |birth_name = |citizenship = |party = [[Parti Québécois]] |spouse = |relations = |children = |alma_mater = |occupation = Farmer, mechanic |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = |footnotes = }}

'''Jacques Baril''' (born February 6, 1942) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] former politician, cabinet minister and a five-term Member of the [[National Assembly of Quebec]].<ref name=Bio>{{Quebec MNA biography|baril-jacques-1841}}</ref>

==Early life== Jacques Baril was born in the town of [[Princeville, Quebec]] in 1942. He was educated at l'École Sacré-Cœur de Princeville before working as a mechanic at a local garage.<ref name="Bio"/> In 1966, he began working as a dairy farmer. It was his work as a farmer that opened the door to his political activities. Baril became the director of the [[:fr:Union des producteurs agricoles du Québec|Union of Agricultural Producers of Quebec]] in 1974. He was also the founder of the local beef cooperative in the [[Arthabaska Regional County Municipality|Arthabaska region]].

Later he would shift his work toward municipal politics, becoming a municipal councillor in Princeville and organizing locally for the [[Parti Québécois]].

==Member of the National Assembly== Baril was elected in the [[1976 Quebec general election|1976 election]], in which the [[Parti Québécois]] formed the government for the first time.<ref name="Bio"/> He was handily reelected four year later in the [[1981 Quebec general election|1981 election]]. During [[32nd Quebec Legislature|his second term in office]], Baril served as Deputy Whip for the PQ, as well as Parliamentary Assistant for the Minister of Agriculture.<ref name="Bio"/>

Baril briefly retired in 1985, during which time he served as Mayor of Princeville from 1987 to 1989 and a member of the executive committee for the [[L'Érable Regional County Municipality]]. It was also reported that he left provincial politics in protest of [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]]'s [[Pierre-Marc Johnson#Premier of Quebec|"National Affirmation"]] policy.<ref name="USB">[http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/evenements/23140.html Jacques Baril annonce son départ du Parti québécois], sur Bilan du siècle, Université de Sherbrooke</ref>

He returned to politics in the 1989 election, being re-elected in the 1994 and 1998 elections. During the [[36th Quebec Legislature]], Baril served in Cabinet, serving as [[Transports Québec|Minister of Transport]]. In 2003, Baril announced he would retire from political life.<ref name="USB"/>

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