Jean-A. Joly (born August 29, 1939) is a Canadian politician from Quebec. He served as a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994.
He should not be confused with a different Jean Joly who has been a municipal politician in Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.
Joly was born in Montreal. He was a technician in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1956 to 1959 and later worked as a life insurance sales manager.[1] Before running for office, he was known for his involvement in anti-drug campaigns.[2]
Joly was first elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1985 provincial election, defeating Parti Québécois incumbent Michel Leduc in the Laval division of Fabre. The Liberals won a majority government in this election, and Joly entered the legislature as a backbench supporter of Robert Bourassa's government. In 1988, he was part of a group of Liberal legislators who pressured manpower and income security minister Pierre Paradis to remove the harsher aspects of a welfare reform bill.[3] Joly supported both a subway line and the extension of Highway 440 into Laval during the late 1980s.[4]
He was re-elected to a second term in the 1989 provincial election and supported Robert Bourassa's shift to Quebec nationalism in 1990 after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord on reforming the Canadian constitution.[5] He did not seek re-election in 1994.
Joly has served as president of the Fondation des parlementaires Québécois.[6]
| Shield: | Or a chain palewise Gules between two swords erect points upwards blades Argent enflamed Gules hilts and pommels Azure. |
| Crest: | Issuant from a coronet rim Or heightened with maple leaves Gules alternating with fleurs-de-lis Azure a demi pegasus Argent crined unguled and queued Or displaying on the shoulder a cog wheel Gules charged with a bezant. |
| Motto: | TÉNACITÉ · ENGAGEMENT · RESPECT [7] |
Joly campaigned on behalf of Liberal Party of Canada candidate Michel Dupuy in the 1993 Canadian federal election.[8] The federal and provincial Liberal parties are not aligned in Quebec, and not all provincial Liberals support the federal party.