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Place of Birth: L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada
About Robert Toupin
- Robert Toupin (born January 20, 1949 in L'Assomption, Quebec) is a former Canadian Member of Parliament. Toupin had been a worker for the Quebec Liberal Party when he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada following Brian Mulroney's election as party leader.
- Toupin was a successful Tory candidate in Terrebonne riding in the 1984 federal election. He was critical of the new government's policies and soon crossed the floor to sit as an Independent.
- He had attempted to join the Liberal Party of Canada but the Liberal riding association for the constituency he represented rejected him.
- He subsequently joined the New Democratic Party, becoming the first NDP Member of Parliament (MP) from a Quebec riding.
- However, he left the party after ten months to again sit as an Independent, after claiming that communists had infiltrated the party.
- He was then invited to join the Rhinoceros Party of Canada. Toupin was defeated as an independent candidate in the 1988 federal election.
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