Ghislain Fournier was a member of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1997 to 2004. He is a businessman

Businessperson

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 by career, including real estate

Real estate

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 work.

He was elected in the Manicouagan electoral district

Manicouagan (electoral district)

Manicouagan is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Charlevoix and Saguenay ridings....

 under the Bloc Québécois

Bloc Québécois

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 party in the 1997 and 2000 elections, serving in the 36th

36th Canadian Parliament

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 and 37th Canadian Parliament

37th Canadian Parliament

The 37th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 29, 2001, until May 23, 2004. The membership was set by the 2000 federal election on November 27, 2000, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 2004 election.It was controlled by...

s respectively.

Fournier left office in 2004, as he lost the Manicouagan riding's Bloc Québécois candidacy to Gérard Asselin

Gérard Asselin

Gérard Asselin is a Canadian politician.Asselin is a former Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Manicouagan from 2004 to 2011 and Charlevoix from 1993 to 2004. At the end of the 37th Canadian Parliament, Asselin was the Bloc's Forestry critic...

. Asselin won the riding in that year's Canadian general election.

External links

• Hill Times: 2004 federal election Quebec profile, 21 June 2004, accessed 12 July 2006