Louis Joseph Robichaud, PC, CC, QC, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis" (due both for his short height and his sharing a name with "Uncle Louis" St. Laurent), was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as Premier of New Brunswick from 1960 to 1970. Elected to the New Brunswick legislature in 1952, he became provincial Liberal leader in 1958 and led his party to victory in 1960, 1963 and 1967 before its defeat by Richard Hatfield's Conservatives in the 1970 election.
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- Louis Joseph Robichaud, PC, CC, QC, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis" (due both for his short height and his sharing a name with "Uncle Louis" St. Laurent), was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as Premier of New Brunswick from 1960 to 1970. Elected to the New Brunswick legislature in 1952, he became provincial Liberal leader in 1958 and led his party to victory in 1960, 1963 and 1967 before its defeat by Richard Hatfield's Conservatives in the 1970 election. The first Acadian premier of New Brunswick since Peter J. Veniot and the first to win an election, Robichaud modernized the province's hospitals and public schools and introduced a wide range of social reforms. The Liberals also passed an act in 1969 making New Brunswick officially bilingual. “Language rights," he said when he introduced the legislation, "are more than legal rights. They are precious cultural rights, going deep into the revered past and touching the historic traditions of all our people. ” Robichaud also restructured the municipal tax regime, ending the ability of business of playing one municipality against another in order to extract the lowest tax rates. He also expanded the government and sought to ensure that the quality of health care, education and social services was the same across the province -- a programme he called Equal Opportunity, which is still a political buzz phrase in New Brunswick. "When I first realized that there was absolutely no equal opportunity, no equality, in New Brunswick," he recalled in the 1980s, "well, I had to come to the conclusion that something had to be done immediately. " A desk made for Robichaud by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and given to him in 1966, which he used during his last years as premier and which was used by his successor Richard Hatfield was returned to the Premier's Office by Shawn Graham in 2006. He was instrumental in the creation of the Université de Moncton in 1963, while in 1969, a high school was named in his honour in Shediac, New Brunswick. In 1971, upon resigning from the legislature, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and Canadian chairman of the International Joint Commission, a post he held until being called to the Senate of Canada on December 21, 1973. He sat in the Senate until his mandatory retirement from the Upper House on October 21, 2000 upon reaching his seventy-fifth birthday. He was a resident of New Brunswick at the time of his death of cancer at the Hôpital Stella-Maris-de-Kent in Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, near his birth place of Saint-Antoine, New Brunswick. The cancer had been discovered only a few weeks before his death.
- L'honorable Louis Joseph Robichaud,, plus connu sous le nom de Louis J. Robichaud ou de P'tit Louis, était un homme politique canadien. Il a été Premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick de 1960 à 1970.
- Louis Joseph Robichaud, polityk kanadyjski, działacz Liberalnej Partii Nowego Brunszwiku, premier Nowego Brunszwiku w latach 1960-1970. Nosił przydomek Mały Ludwik (Little Louis) ze względu na mały wzrost. Ukończył studia prawnicze. Z ramienia Partii Liberalnej został wybrany w 1952 do legislatury prowincjonalnej, a w 1958 stanął na czele lokalnych władz partyjnych. Poprowadził liberałów do zwycięstwa w wyborach lokalnych w 1960 i 12 lipca 1960 stanął na czele rządu, zastępując Hugha Johna Flemminga. Jako szef rządu przeprowadził szereg reform społecznych, unowocześniając m. in. szkolnictwo i służbę zdrowia. W 1969 doprowadził do oficjalnego zatwierdzenia dwujęzyczności prowincji, a w 1963 przyczynił się do powołania francuskojęzycznego uniwersytetu w Moncton. Zajmował się również polityką podatkową, w okresie sprawowania przez niego funkcji premiera uporządkowano podatki lokalne. Robichaud utrzymał władzę dla liberałów w wyborach w 1963 i 1967. W listopadzie 1970 został zastąpiony na stanowisku premiera przez lidera konserwatystów Richarda Hatfielda. W 1971 został uhonorowany Orderem Kanady, a w 1973 mianowany senatorem. Zasiadał w Senacie Kanady do ukończenia 75. roku życia w październiku 2000.
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- Hon. Louis Joseph Robichaud PC CC QC BA LL.D
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- Lorraine Robichaud (who mothered their four children) and died later in life. After many years Louie married Jacqueline Robichaud, his wife until he died.
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- Louis Joseph Robichaud, PC, CC, QC, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis" (due both for his short height and his sharing a name with "Uncle Louis" St. Laurent), was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as Premier of New Brunswick from 1960 to 1970. Elected to the New Brunswick legislature in 1952, he became provincial Liberal leader in 1958 and led his party to victory in 1960, 1963 and 1967 before its defeat by Richard Hatfield's Conservatives in the 1970 election.
- L'honorable Louis Joseph Robichaud,, plus connu sous le nom de Louis J. Robichaud ou de P'tit Louis, était un homme politique canadien. Il a été Premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick de 1960 à 1970.
- Louis Joseph Robichaud, polityk kanadyjski, działacz Liberalnej Partii Nowego Brunszwiku, premier Nowego Brunszwiku w latach 1960-1970. Nosił przydomek Mały Ludwik (Little Louis) ze względu na mały wzrost. Ukończył studia prawnicze. Z ramienia Partii Liberalnej został wybrany w 1952 do legislatury prowincjonalnej, a w 1958 stanął na czele lokalnych władz partyjnych.
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