Jean Filion (born March 22, 1951) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Montmorency in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1991 to 1998. He was a member of Parti Québécois.^[1]

He was the party's candidate in Montmorency in the 1985 provincial election but lost to Yves Séguin of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was first elected in a by-election on August 12, 1991, following Séguin's resignation, and was reelected in the 1994 election.^[1] He left the party to sit as an independent in 1995^[2] and ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Beauport in 1996.^[1] He ran as an independent candidate in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Jean-François Simard.^[3]

He was later charged with thirteen counts of fraud and breach of trust, after allegations that he diverted funds from his MNA expense budget into renovations for a building he owned.^[4] He was convicted in 2004 on eight of the thirteen counts,^[5] and sentenced to six months in jail. He was subsequently stripped of his designation as a chartered accountant by the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants.^[5]

Due to his conviction, the National Assembly withheld a sizable "transition payment" that he would have been entitled to as an outgoing MNA.^[6] He filed a lawsuit against the provincial government in the Quebec Superior Court in 2012 for $52,617 in transition payments, $50,000 in moral damages and $42,000 to cover legal fees and expenses.^[6] In February 2013, Superior Court Justice Suzanne Hardy-Lemieux ruled that he was entitled to partial compensation of $29,699 for the transition payments, but rejected his claim for additional damages and expenses.^[6]

This article about a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e