Guy Lauzon

Infobox CanadianMP | name=Guy Lauzon


term_start=2004
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predecessor= Bob Kilger
birth_date= birth date and age |1944|4|6
birth_place= St. Andrew's West, Ontario
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profession= insurance, agribusiness
party=Conservative
party colour=Conservative
residence=St. Andrew's West
riding=Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry
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spouse=Frances Lauzon
religion=Roman Catholic|

Guy Lauzon (born April 6, 1944 in St. Andrew's West, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry as a Conservative. Lauzon's family roots in the region can be traced to the 1800s.

Lauzon spent over twenty-two years in the federal public service with Human Resources Canada, 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 is now the general manager of Tri-County Protein, a soybean processing plant in Winchester, Ontario. Lauzon has also served as fundraising chairman of the St. Andrews West Roman Catholic Church, which raised over $100,000 for the building's restoration.

In the 2000 federal election, Lauzon ran as the Canadian Alliance candidate in Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh, and finished second behind incumbent Liberal Bob Kilger.

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 as the Conservative Party critic for the Treasury Board and Official Languages Committee.

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. It was the Conservatives fourth largest victory in Ontario in terms of popular support.

In 2006, Guy Lauzon was appointed to the deputy whip position of the Conservative party.

In the spring of 2007, Guy 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 [http://www.thehilltimes.ca/pdf/2007/052807_ht.pdf] . 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 has dubbed the “obstruction manual" [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070518/tories_parliament_070518?s_name=&no_ads=http://] , decided not to nominate a new chair, shutting down the committee’s work.

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.

During the 2008 election campaign, Guy Lauzon has been criticized for his mailings to constituents paid for by tax dollars ($56,262 according to 2006-2007 Parliamentary figures). The mailings are viewed as thinly disguised campaign material, some even containing the Conservative Party logo.

External links

* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=07efb925-e6f4-4f2a-bd9f-bd5b0a297a8d&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament of Canada webpage]