Robert Deschamps

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Robert Deschamps


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party= Action démocratique du Québec
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Robert "Bob" Deschamps (born January 6, 1940) is a politician from Quebec, Canada, and the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Saint-Maurice.

Deschamps, who has a background in education was a teacher for 24 years after obtaining a degree at the Université de Montréal and additionnal studies from St. Dunstan's University in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where he played for the university's hockey club. He was also a director for a Montreal mining exploration company for eight years. He was also a manager and football coach in the league he founded in 1965, the Ligue de football interscolaire de Mauricie and was involved heavily in many canoe associations regionally and provincially.

He had been a long-life supporter of the sovereignty of Quebec and was a Parti Québécois supporter and member for nearly 40 years. He unsuccessfully ran three times as a New Democratic Party candidate. His first attempt was at the provincial level in the district of Laviolette in 1976. He also ran at the federal level in the district of Saint-Maurice against Liberal Jean Chrétien in 1979 and 1993. [ [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070327/CPACTUALITES02/703270746/6461/CPACTUALITES02 Les nouveaux visages de l'ADQ, La Presse, March 27, 2007] ]

He was elected to the National Assembly in 2007 with 38% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) incumbent Claude Pinard, who was running for a fourth consecutive term, finished second with 33% of the vote. Deschamps took office on April 12, 2007. [ [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2007/04/12/005-AssermentationADQ.shtml Au tour de l'ADQ, Radio-Canada, April 12, 2007] ]

In the minutes that followed his inauguration, Deschamps confirmed his intention to relocate the Aréna Jacques Plante away from the downtown area, near the École Secondaire des Chutes. Deschamps' position clearly contrasts from that of the Shawinigan's city government. Mayor Lise Landry and a number of city councillors want to relocate the facility between the city's two main districts: Downtown Shawinigan and Shawinigan-Sud. [ [http://www.lapresseaffaires.com/article/20070413/CPNOUVELLISTE/704130697/5409/CPNOUVELLISTE Deschamps en remet, Le Nouvelliste, April 13, 2007] ]

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* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/d/desr3.shtml Robert DESCHAMPS] at National Assembly of Quebec