Robert Labine
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| 16th and 18th Mayor of Gatineau | |
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| Preceded by | Guy Lacroix |
| Succeeded by | Yves Ducharme |
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| Preceded by | Gaétan Cousineau |
| Succeeded by | Guy Lacroix |
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Robert "Bob" Labine[1] (23 December 1940 – 4 February 2021) was a politician in Gatineau, Quebec. He was best known for being mayor of the former city of Gatineau between 1988 and 1994 and again between 1999 and 2001.
Career
Labine was born in Gatineau, Quebec. He entered politics as a councillor of Gatineau in 1968 and remained at that position until 1978. He was elected mayor in 1988 and re-elected for a second mandate in 1991. Due to conflicts of interest, he resigned in 1994 before re-entering politics in 1999 after then-incumbent mayor Guy Lacroix stepped down after five years as mayor. Labine defeated future ADQ candidate Berthe Miron.
In 2001, Labine competed against then-Hull incumbent mayor Yves Ducharme and lost. After the election, he had little involvement in municipal politics.
During his first mandate, Labine (along with former Aylmer mayor Constance Provost) opposed a project of regrouping the cities of Hull, Aylmer and Gatineau in the early 1990s.[2] The merger did occur in 2002 when a bill by the Parti Québécois forced the merger of those three municipalities along with Buckingham and Masson-Angers. In 2000, Labine mentioned that a merger would not save money.[3]
During his tenure as mayor, Labine was in favour of building a new sports complex in the Gatineau sector. However, the building was built only a decade later, in 2010, due to negotiations with other levels of governments regarding funding.[4] The mayor of the new city of Gatineau, Marc Bureau, had committed to having this project realized. Labine was also in favour of building an additional bridge to Ottawa in the east end of the metropolitan area, via Kettle Island towards the Aviation Parkway, a controversial project that was opposed by many Ottawa residents.[5]
After his political career, Labine led a successful bid for the city of Gatineau to obtain the 2010 Quebec Summer Games in which it defeated four other bids coming from Vaudreuil-Dorion, Shawinigan, Rivière-du-Loup and Charlevoix.[6]
Personal life
Labine was married and had two children. He died in the Hull sector of Gatineau on 4 February 2021, aged 80.[7]
Electoral record
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| Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | |||||||||
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| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Independent | Robert Labine | 15,557 | 48.32 | – | none listed | |||||||
| Independent | Berthe Miron | 13,824 | 42.94 | – | none listed | |||||||
| Independent | Rosaire Cauchon | 2,816 | 8.75 | – | none listed | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 32,197 | 98.58 | ||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 464 | 1.42 | +0.18 | |||||||||
| Turnout | 32,611 | 45.35 | +0.28 | |||||||||
| Eligible voters | 72,020 | |||||||||||
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. | ||||||||||||
| Sources: Ville de Gatineau Archives[8] and Ottawa Citizen[9] | ||||||||||||
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See the 1987 Gatineau municipal election page for details on Deschênes and Leroux.
Source: David Gamble, "Labine wins tight race for mayor in Gatineau," Ottawa Citizen, 6 June 1988, A1.
Notes
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bélanger, Mathieu (February 4, 2021). "Robert «Bob» Labine s'éteint à l'âge de 80 ans". Le Droit (in français). Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."L'Année politique au Québec 1990-1991 : La vie municipale et régionale". www.pum.umontreal.ca. Archived from the original on 1999-11-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Municipalities in Outaouais undergoing big changes - CBC News". Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rogers, Dave (14 June 2010). "$50.4M Gatineau Sports Complex Opens". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 16 December 2023 – via PressReader.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Implications of a west-end bridge over the Ottawa River/Lac Deschenes". www.magma.ca. Archived from the original on 1999-11-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gatineau to host 2010 Quebec Summer Games".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Média, Bell. "Décès de l'ancien maire de Gatineau, Robert Labine". www.iheartradio.ca. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ville de Gatineau (1975-2001) - Élection du 7 novembre 1999". Ville de Gatineau (in français). Retrieved April 16, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Buchanan, Carrie; Jaimet, Kate; Singer, Zev (November 8, 1999). "Labine makes astonishing comeback: Ducharme returned for third term in Hull; Croteau unopposed in Aylmer". Ottawa Citizen.
