Jean-Pierre Ouellet

Jean-Pierre started his career as a teacher. He taught French classes at different schools: École régionale de Saint-Basile, École Cormier d’Edmundston, and the Cité des Jeunes A.-M. Sormany d’Edmundston.

Elected deputy of Madawaska-Les-Lacs from 1974 to 1987, he held the following positions under Hatfield’s government: Youth, Sports and Leisure Minister, Historical and Cultural Resources Minister, Education Minister, as well as Francophone and Interprovincial and International Agreements Minister. He was a member of the first francophone summit committee held in Paris in 1985, and in Quebec in 1987. As Minister responsible for the Francophones, it is under his leadership that the New Brunswick government became a “participating government” to the Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, known today as the OIF, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

Mr. Ouellet was decorated as Commandeur of the Ordre de la Pléiade. Created in 1976 by parliamentary assembly, this distinction is awarded by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie to reward prominent contributions to the OIF’s ideals of cooperation and friendship.

Defeated at the 1987 elections, Mr. Ouellet pursued his career as a business and government relations consultant as well as a technology transfer consultant.

He was elected Mayor of the Community of Haut-Madawaska on May 15^th, 2017 and is the President of the CSRNO (a regional service council representing the municipalities of northwestern New Brunswick).

The Community of Haut-Madawaska is experiencing a remarkable economic boom, and its main challenge is to attract workers in the Community to settle and fill vacant positions. The francophone immigration is the proposed solution.

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