Nov 30, 2011 | The Globe and Mail
Infrastructure planning torn between old and new communities
The Conservative government is confronting a new challenge as it grapples with how to finance a future national infrastructure plan: What cities have the most pressing needs, the older ones or the young, growing ones? Federal Transport Minister Denis Lebel who up until 2007 was mayor of the small Quebec town of Roberval on Wednesday drew attention ... (more)
Conservative MP Denis Lebel, shown here with Prime Minister Harper, resigned from the Bloc Québécois 10 years ago.
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Conservative cabinet minister once held Bloc membership
The interim leader of the NDP isn't the only MP with former ties to the Bloc Quebecois - Conservative Transport Minister Denis Lebel held a membership in the separatist party in the 1990s.