Luc Bernard Guindon is a justice of the peace

Justice of the Peace

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 and former politician in Ontario

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, Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1985 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party

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Guindon was born in Hull

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, Quebec

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, the son of Fernand Guindon

Fernand Guindon

Fernand Roméo Guindon was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Glengarry and then Stormont in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1957 to 1974 as a Progressive Conservative member....

 and Claire Marie Rouette, and educated in Apple Hill, Ontario and Montreal

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, Quebec. He operated a family service station business from 1963 to the 1980s. In 1966, he married Nicole Germaine Ladouceur. Guindon is a member of the Knights of Columbus

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He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election

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, defeating Liberal

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 candidate Claude Poirier

Claude Poirier

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 by 3,046 votes in Cornwall

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. The Progressive Conservatives won a minority government

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 in this election, and Guindon briefly served as a backbench supporter of Frank Miller

Frank Miller (politician)

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's government before it was defeated in the house. In opposition, Guindon served as his party's critic for Francophone Affairs and Intergovernmental Affairs.

He was defeated in the 1987 election

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, losing to Liberal John Cleary

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 by 1,586 votes. He worked with an independent gasoline retailer in the 1990s.

Guindon was appointed to Ontario's Assessment Review Board in 2000. In early 2003, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the Ontario Court of Justice

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External links

• Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario