{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jean-Marc Lalonde | image = | office1 = Ontario MPP | term_start1 = 1999 | term_end1 = 2011 | predecessor1 = ''New riding'' | successor1 = Grant Crack | constituency1 = Glengarry-Prescott-Russell | term_start2 = 1995 | term_end2 = 1999 | predecessor2 = Jean Poirier | successor2 = ''Riding abolished'' | constituency2 = Prescott and Russell | party = Liberal | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|08|19}} | birth_place = Prescott and Russell | spouse = | occupation = Civil servant }} '''Jean-Marc Lalonde''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (born August 19, 1935) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2011 who represented the riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell. He was mayor of Rockland, Ontario from 1976 to 1991 and was elected as a municipal councillor in 2014.
==Background== Lalonde was born in the county of Prescott and Russell on August 19, 1935.<ref name="parl">{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide 2005 |year=2005 |last=O'Handley |first=Kathryn |ISBN=1-4144-0141-8}}</ref> He was employed in the Public Service of Canada from 1956 to 1990. He served for a time as the manager of the Canadian Government Printing Bureau, and was responsible for the establishment and operation of technical training and development for the Canada Communications Group.<ref name="parl"/> Outside of public service, Lalonde was a co-owner of the Hull Olympiques ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for several years, and was a director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1972 to 1976.
==Politics== He was mayor of Rockland, Ontario from 1976 to 1991. For eleven years, Lalonde was a director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario,<ref name="parl"/> and was also the vice-president of the Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario for a time.
Lalonde was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, in the riding of Prescott and Russell in the easternmost section of the province.<ref name="1995 results">{{cite web|url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=Prescott+and+Russell&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140803112343/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=Prescott+and+Russell&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}</ref> The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Lalonde joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition. He was re-elected without difficulty in the new riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell in the general election of 1999.<ref name="1999 results">{{cite web|url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Glengarry-Prescott-Russell&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140803112353/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Glengarry-Prescott-Russell&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 3, 1999 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}</ref>
The Liberals won the 2003 election, in which Lalonde defeated his closest opponent by almost 20,000 votes.<ref name="2003 results">{{cite web|url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/2003_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=38&rec=0&district=Glengarry-Prescott-Russell&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140803112418/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/2003_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=38&rec=0&district=Glengarry-Prescott-Russell&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 2, 2003 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}</ref> Lalonde served as the Parliamentary Assistant for the Minister of Health Promotion. Prior to that, he has also worked as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade, as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Transportation and Chair of the Small Business Agency of Ontario.<ref name="2006LiberalPAs">{{cite news |title=Premier McGuinty appoints new parliamentary assistants |publisher=Canada NewsWire |location=Ottawa |date=March 6, 2006 |page=1}}</ref>
In the 2007 election, Lalonde was re-elected in his riding by a commanding margin over PC candidate Dennis Pommainville.<ref name="2007 results">{{cite web|url=http://elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/AB409CCD-84F3-46FA-B3BD-39AB659EFC2D/0/SummaryofValidBallotsCastforEachCandidate.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007160233/http://www.elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/AB409CCD-84F3-46FA-B3BD-39AB659EFC2D/0/SummaryofValidBallotsCastforEachCandidate.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 7, 2009 |format=PDF |title=Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=October 10, 2007 |accessdate=2014-03-02 |page=5 (xiv) }}</ref>
On April 13, 2011, Lalonde announced that he would not run in the 2011 election.
In 2014, he returned to politics as a municipal councillor in the town of Clarence-Rockland.
==After politics== Lalonde was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions in public service and promoting bilingualism services in both English and French in Ontario.<ref>{{cite web|title=Order of Canada Appointments|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16283&lan=eng|website=The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston|publisher=Governor General of Canada|accessdate=December 31, 2015}}</ref>
==Electoral record== {{Canadian election result/top|ON|2007|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|ON|Liberal|Jean-Marc Lalonde|24,525|60.5|-5.47}} {{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Denis Pommainville|11,018|27.2|+2.32}} {{CANelec |ON |Green |Karolyne Pickett |2,348 |5.8 |+2.45}} {{CANelec|ON|NDP|Josée Blanchette|2,301|5.7|-0.1}} {{CANelec|ON|Family Coalition|Vicki Gunn|339|0.8|N/A}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|ON|2003|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|ON|Liberal|Jean-Marc Lalonde|28,956|65.97|+10.59}} {{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Albert Bourdeau|10,921|24.88|-14.26}} {{CANelec|ON|NDP|Guy Belle-isle|2,544|5.8|+1.28}} {{CANelec |ON |Green |Louise Pattington |1,471 |3.35}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|ON|1999|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|ON|Liberal|Jean-Marc Lalonde|24,568|55.38}} {{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Alain Lalonde|17,364|39.14 }} {{CANelec|ON|NDP|Stéphane Landry|2,007|4.52}} {{CANelec|ON|Natural Law|Mary Glasser|425|0.96}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|ON|1995|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|ON|Liberal|Jean-Marc Lalonde|24,808|55.7|-9.3%}} {{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Pierre Leduc|13,637|30.6|+23.5%}} {{CANelec|ON|NDP|Yves Deschamps|4,472|10.0|-13.5%}} {{CANelec|ON|Libertarian|Jean-Serge Brisson|626|1.4|-0.2%}} {{CANelec|ON|Independent|John MacKinnon|564|1.3| }} {{CANelec|ON|Natural Law|Pierrette Blondin|446|1.0| }} {{end}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Ontario MPP biography|id=jean-marc-lalonde}}
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