Royal Galipeau
| Royal N. Galipeau | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ottawa—Orléans |
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In office January 23, 2006 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Marc Godbout |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Leslie |
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January 5, 1947 St-Isidore, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Pallascio |
| Children | Louis, Paul, Claude & Mimi |
| Residence | Ottawa |
| Profession | Advisor, businessman, corporate director |
Royal Galipeau (born January 5, 1947 in St-Isidore, Ontario) is a former Member of Parliament for the Ottawa—Orléans federal constituency. He was first elected as a Conservative Party candidate in the 2006 election, and was reelected in 2008 and 2011. He was one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons between the 2006 and 2008 elections. He was defeated in the 2015 election by retired Canadian Forces Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie. In February 2014 he revealed that he was battling multiple myeloma, but insisted he would run for office again in the 2015 election.
In 1982, he was elected to Gloucester City Council. On city council, he helped introduce equal opportunity hiring policies and unsuccessfully pushed to replace the term "alderman" with a gender-neutral term. In 1985, he ran for mayor of Gloucester, finishing third behind fellow councillor Harry Allen and interim mayor Mitch Owens.
Galipeau was appointed in 2001 by the Council of the newly amalgamated city of Ottawa as Trustee of the Ottawa Public Library, where he helped introduce content-filtered Internet access to city public libraries to protect from Internet pornography on library computers. In 2004, he was the only Trustee of the previous term to be reappointed by City Council. He was twice elected as vice-chair of the Board.
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