Background
The son of Albert Lécuyer and Suzanne Delaloye, he grew up in Ste.
The son of Albert Lécuyer and Suzanne Delaloye, he grew up in Ste.
Agathe and was educated at Saint Boniface College and the University of Manitoba, working as an educator-administrator before entering public life.
Gérald L"Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director and performer. Gerard Lecuyer (born August 2, 1936 in Saint Boniface, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He directed special projects in the Bureau de l"Éducation français for the Department of Education, and was a teacher in the Saint Boniface school division.
He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the election of 1981, scoring a comfortable victory in the east-Winnipeg riding of Radisson.
He was a leading supporter of the legal re-entrenchment of French language services within the province. Lecuyer was named Minister of Environment and Workplace Safety and Health on November 4, 1983.
He lost his seat to Liberal Allan Patterson by almost 2,000 votes in the 1988 provincial election. After leaving politics, Lecuyer worked as a consultant in Manitoba and the Yukon.
From 1990 to 1994, he was executive director of the Francophone Parents Federation in Manitoba.
He was also appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission.
He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988, and a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Howard Pawley from 1983 to 1988. He also spent five years in Africa as a teacher with the Canadian International Development Agency (Canadian International Development Agency), and was a member of the Franco-Manitoban Society.