title: Rémy Désilets
text: # Rémy Désilets
  
  Rémy Désilets is a Quebec, Canada politician. He was a Member of the National Assembly.
  
  ## Background
  
  He was born on December 27, 1952, in Drummondville, Centre-du-Québec and is an educator.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Désilets ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in the provincial district of Maskinongé in 1994 and won. He succeeded Liberal incumbent Yvon Picotte who had just retired from politics.
  
  He was re-elected in 1998 and served as Parliamentary Assistant from 2002 to 2003.
  
  In 2003, he lost re-election against Liberal candidate Francine Gaudet.
  
  He attempted a political comeback in 2007, but finished third, behind winner Jean Damphousse from the Action Démocratique du Québec and Gaudet who was running for re-election.
  
  ## Controversy
  
  Désilets courted controversy in 2016 through an illegal contribution to a colleague's campaign fund, for which he was fined C$6,000.
  
  