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Régent Millette (September 14, 1935 – August 21, 2013) was a perennial candidate for public office, having run in twenty-five federal, provincial, and municipal elections since 2000. In 2013, he declared "I will run for office until I die". He was a candidate of the Parti démocratie chrétienne du Québec in the 2003 provincial election but has run as an independent in every other campaign. He was a member of the short-lived Parti république du Québec in 2007 but never actually ran under its banner.

Millette has a teaching certificate and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Université de Montréal and has worked as a teacher. During the 2005 municipal election, he said that he felt a calling to serve the public and would take no salary if elected. He holds socially conservative views; during the 2003 Montreal gay pride parade, he was quoted as saying, "I love everybody but in the Bible they say there are many things that are against nature."

Political activism

A candidate named Régent Millette ran for the Ralliement national in the 1966 Quebec election and received 96 votes (0.46%) for a fifth-place finish against incumbent Liberal cabinet minister Paul Gérin-Lajoie. This may have been the same person.

In March 2006, Mr. Millette was charged with attempting to file a breach of condition and conspiring to file a breach of condition when, at a meeting of Laval city council, he asked questions on behalf of Rick Blatter while the latter had undertaken to respect a court order prohibiting him from communicating with the staff of the town hall and the elected officials of Laval. Following his acquittal, Mr Millette tried to get an indemnity of $95,000 from Ville de Laval but lost his case in 2012. In 2013 the Supreme Court of Canada rejected his request for appeal.

Death

Mr Millette, aged 77 years old, passed away on August 21, 2013 at the Joliette Regional Hospital in Saint-Charles-Borromée.

References

1. ""Je vais me présenter jusqu'à ma mort"".
2. "Les dissidents auront le choix", Radio-Canada, 5 April 2007, accessed 3 April 2011.
3. Canada Votes 2006: Candidates and Ridings: Outremont, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, accessed 6 April 2011.
4. Michelle Lalonde, "Vaillancourt wins in a walkover: 5th term as mayor. Colourful challengers included 18-year-old, part-time actor," Montreal Gazette, 7 November 2005, A8.
5. Ross Marowits, "Catholic Church hypocritical to attack same-sex marriage, say gay activists," Canadian Press, 3 August 2003, 18:36.
6. "Pas d'indemnité pour un candidat à la mairie de Laval" (in French). Retrieved July 18, 2023.

• 1935 births
• 2013 deaths