Jean-A. Joly
Jean-A. Joly is a Canadian politician from Quebec. He served as a Liberal Party|Liberal] member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994.
He should not be confused with a different Jean Joly who has been a municipal politician in Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.
Early life and career
Joly was born in Montreal. He was a technician in the Canadian Air Force">Canadians">Canadian Air Force from 1956 to 1959 and later worked as a life insurance sales manager. Before running for office, he was known for his involvement in anti-drug campaigns.Legislator
Joly was first elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1985 [Quebec general election|1985 provincial election], defeating Parti Québécois incumbent Michel Leduc in the Laval division of Fabre. The Liberals won a majority government in this election, and Joly entered the legislature as a backbench supporter of Robert Bourassa's government. In 1988, he was part of a group of Liberal legislators who pressured manpower and income security minister Pierre Paradis to remove the harsher aspects of a welfare reform bill. Joly supported both a subway line and the extension of Highway 440 into Laval during the late 1980s.He was re-elected to a second term in the 1989 provincial election and supported Robert Bourassa's shift to Quebec nationalism in 1990 after the failure of the Meech [Lake Accord] on reforming the Canadian constitution. He did not seek re-election in 1994.
Joly has served as president of the Fondation des parlementaires Québécois.