Serge Fontaine

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Serge Fontaine | honorific_suffix = | image = | office = Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Nicolet-Yamaska | predecessor = Benjamin Faucher | successor = District abolished in 1981 | term_start = 1976 | term_end = 1981 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|9|17}} | birth_place = Villeroy, Quebec, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = Coalition Avenir Québec | other_party = Conservative<br />Union Nationale | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = }} '''Serge Fontaine''' (born September 17, 1947) is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.<ref>{{Quebec MNA biography|fontaine-serge-3173}}</ref>

==Background==

He was born on September 17, 1947, in Villeroy, Quebec and was an attorney.

==Political career==

Fontaine was elected as a Union Nationale candidate to the provincial legislature in the district of Nicolet with 35% of the vote in the 1976 election. He served as his party's Deputy House Whip in 1980 and 1981. He finished a close third with 32% of the vote against Parti Québécois candidate Yves Beaumier and lost in the 1981 election.

Fontaine helped found the modern version of the Conservative Party of Quebec and served for a time as its leader. In November 2011, he resigned and joined the Coalition Avenir Québec.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanouvelle.net/Actualites/Politique/2012-01-17/article-2866678/La-CAQ-veut-s%26rsquoancrer-dans-Arthabaska/1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225326/http://www.lanouvelle.net/Actualites/Politique/2012-01-17/article-2866678/La-CAQ-veut-s%26rsquoancrer-dans-Arthabaska/1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|title=La CAQ veut s'ancrer dans Arthabaska|last=Ruel|first=Hélène|date=2012-01-17|publisher=La Nouvelle Union|language=French|accessdate=21 January 2012}}</ref>

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