Albert Côté Explained

Albert Côté
Birth Date:19 January 1927
Birth Place:Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Death Place:Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Party:PLQ
Office:Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Rivière-du-Loup
Term Start:2 December 1985
Term End:7 January 1994
Predecessor:Jules Boucher
Successor:Mario Dumont
Office2:Minister Delegate of Forests
Term Start2:12 December 1985
Term End2:30 January 1991
Predecessor2:Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Successor2:position abolished
Office3:Minister of the Quebec Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks
Term Start3:30 January 1991
Term End3:11 January 1994
Predecessor3:position established
Successor3:Christos Sirros

Albert Côté (19 January 1927 – 18 April 2020) was a Canadian forestry engineer and politician.[1] [2]

Biography

Côté earned degrees in surveying and forest engineering from Université Laval. He began his career working for the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1952. He then worked for the Quebec Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources until 1965. In 1965, he began directing forestry operations at Manicouagan and Aux Outardes River Basin Forest Recovery Office, then became president.[3] He held this position until the organization was replaced by the state-owned REXFOR company in 1964.[4] He then became president and CEO of REXFOR in 1979.[5]

He became an assistant deputy minister at the Quebec Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources in 1979, then President of Scierie des Outardes, a joint venture between REXFOR and Quebec & Ontario Paper Co., from 1980 to 1983. He returned to the private sector of forestry engineering from 1983 to 1985.

Côté was the Quebec Liberal Party's nominee for the Rivière-du-Loup District in the 1985 Quebec general election. He was elected with a majority of votes, allocating 2304.[6] He became Minister Delegate of Forests. He was re-elected in the 1989 Quebec general election with a slightly larger majority and retained his ministerial post. He was promoted to Minister of Forests in 1991.

In 1986, Côté implemented a new set of forestry guidelines with the Forest Act. In January 1991, he defended his forestry protection strategy with the document Aménager pour mieux protéger les forêts. This strategy was heard by the Quebec Bureau of Public Hearings on the Environment that same year.[7]

Côté retired from politics in January 1994, when Daniel Johnson Jr. replaced Robert Bourassa as Premier of Quebec and leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: L'ancien ministre Albert Côté n'est plus. 29 April 2020. Journal le Soir. French.
  2. Web site: Décès d'Albert Côté : Jean D'Amour se souvient d'un homme travaillant. 30 April 2020. Infodimanche.com. French.
  3. Web site: Création de l'Office pour la récupération forestière des bassins de la rivière Manicouagan et de la Rivière-aux-Outardes. Bilan du siècle. French.
  4. Web site: Raymond Beaulieu, De la Révolution tranquille à l'an 2000 : Rapport du Comité sur la privatisation des sociétés d'État. 1986. Comité sur la privatisation des sociétés d'État. French.
  5. Web site: Albert CÔTÉ. Assemblée Nationale du Québec. French.
  6. Web site: Les résultats électoraux depuis 1867, René-Lévesque à Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata. Assemblée Nationale du Québec. French.
  7. Web site: Rapport de la Commission sur la protection des forêts. 1991. Commission sur la protection des forêts. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20181214003743/http://www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/sections/rapports/publications/bape044e.pdf. 14 December 2018.