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Place of Birth: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
About Robert Labine
- Robert "Bob" Labine (born December 23, 1940 in Gatineau, Quebec) is a former 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. Labine 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 was little involved in municipal politics. During his first mandate, Labine (along with former Aylmer mayor Constance Provost) opposed a project of regrouping the city of Hull, Aylmer and Gatineau in the early 1990s.
- The merger would 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.During his tenure as mayor, Labine was in favour of building a new sports complex in the Gatineau sector.
- However, the building is still not built due to negotiations with other levels of governments.
- The mayor of the new city of Gatineau, Marc Bureau, had committed to having this project realized.
- Labine was also in favour of building a bridge to Ottawa in the east-end via the Kettle Island towards the Aviation Parkway, a project opposed by Ottawa.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.Labine is married and has two children.
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