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About Gilles Roch
- Gilles Roch (born August 26, 1952 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1990, representing the rural riding of Springfield.The son of Marcel Roch, he worked as a hotel manager before entering political life.
- He was a board member of the Tourist Industry Association of Manitoba, and was also a member of the Franco-Manitoban School Trustees Association.
- Unlike most Franco-Manitoba politicians, Roch was an evangelical Christian rather than a Roman Catholic.Roch's political career followed an unusual course.
- He initially supported the Liberals, but defected to the Progressive Conservative Party in 1986 when the Liberals denied him permission to run as a candidate for the party.
- In the provincial election of 1986, Roch was elected in Springfield as a Progressive Conservative, defeating incumbent New Democrat Andy Anstett by 55 votes.
- He was re-elected by a much greater margin in the 1988 election, in which the Progressive Conservatives formed a minority government under Gary Filmon.Roch, against his expectations, was not appointed to Filmon's cabinet following the election.
- On September 8, 1988, he crossed the floor to rejoin the Liberal Party, which was the official opposition in the legislature at the time.
- These changing allegiances won Roch few supporters, and he did not seek re-election in the 1990 election.
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