David Payne (politician)
| David Payne | |
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| MNA for Vachon | |
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In office 1981–1985 |
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| Succeeded by | Christiane Pelchat |
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In office 1994–2003 |
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| Preceded by | Christiane Pelchat |
| Succeeded by | Camil Bouchard |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 12, 1944 Middlesbrough, England |
| Political party | Parti Québécois |
| Portfolio | Culture, Communications, Environment |
David Payne (born January 12, 1944) is a diplomat and former politician. He is a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, from the constituency of Vachon. During his time in the National Assembly he was the only anglophone MNA within the Parti Québécois parliamentary caucus.
Payne was born and raised in Middlesbrough, England in North Yorkshire. He graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and earned a diploma in sociology at the Université catholique de Louvain. His Doctoral studies (IP) are in the field of democratization in post-conflict societies.
Payne moved to Quebec in 1971 to become the Directeur Général du Centre d'accueil des immigrants. From 1973 to 1976, he taught at Vanier College. In 1976, he was appointed Executive Secretary in the Executive Council of Quebec premier René Lévesque. He wrote Autant de façons d'être Québécois (So many ways to be Québécois), and headed up the public hearings into the future of the Anglophone community of the Lower North Shore producing "La Basse-Cote Nord- perspectives et développement".
He was appointed Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry on the mining disaster of Belmoral in northern Quebec in 1979.
He was elected to the provincial legislature as the Member for the new district of Vachon in 1981, but was defeated in 1985 and 1989, only to be re-elected (with strong majorities) in 1994 and 1998. He did not run in 2003.
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