# Régent Millette

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.
Electoral record :
| Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
| 2000 federal | Laval East | Independent | 255 | 0.44 | 8/9 | Carole-Marie Allard, Liberal |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 9 April 2001 | Mercier | Independent | 27 | 0.16 | 9/9 | Nathalie Rochefort, Liberal |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 1 October 2001 | Blainville | Independent | 97 | 0.43 | 6/6 | Richard Legendre, Parti Québécois |
| 2005 Laval municipal | Mayor of Laval | Independent | 606 | 0.48 | 4/4 | Gilles Vaillancourt, Parti PRO des Lavallois |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 15 April 2002 | Anjou | Independent | 72 | 0.44 | 5/5 | Lise Thériault, Liberal |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 17 June 2002 | Vimont | Independent | 212 | 0.70 | 4/4 | François Gaudreau, Action démocratique du Québec |
| 2003 provincial | Mille-Îles | Parti démocratie chrétienne | 113 | 0.28 | 5/5 | Maurice Clermont, Liberal |
| 2004 federal | Alfred-Pellan | Independent | 89 | 0.17 | 7/7 | Robert Carrier, Bloc Québécois |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 20 September 2004 | Gouin | Independent | 33 | 0.22 | 7/7 | Nicolas Girard, Parti Québécois |
| 2005 Laval municipal | Mayor of Laval | Independent | 3,474 | 4.41 | 4/4 | Gilles Vaillancourt, Parti PRO des Lavallois |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 12 December 2005 | Outremont | Independent | 28 | 0.21 | 7/7 | Raymond Bachand, Liberal |
| 2006 federal | Outremont | Independent | 22 | 0.05 | 11/11 | Jean Lapierre, Liberal |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 10 April 2006 | Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | Independent | 28 | 0.21 | 7/7 | Martin Lemay, Parti Québécois |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 14 August 2006 | Pointe-aux-Trembles | Independent | 52 | 0.41 | 8/8 | André Boisclair, Parti Québécois |
| Canadian federal by-election, 27 November 2006 | Repentigny | Independent | 78 | 0.25 | 7/7 | Raymond Gravel, Bloc Québécois |
| 2007 provincial | Mille-Îles | Independent | 96 | 0.23 | 6/6 | Maurice Clermont, Liberal |
| Canadian federal by-election, 17 September 2007 | Outremont | Independent | 32 | 0.13 | 11/12 | Thomas Mulcair, New Democratic Party |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 12 May 2008 | Pointe-aux-Trembles | Independent | 31 | 0.23 | 8/8 | Nicole Léger, Parti Québécois |
| Canadian federal by-election, 8 September 2008 | Westmount—Ville-Marie | Independent | - | - | - | election cancelled |
| 2008 federal | Alfred-Pellan | Independent | 259 | 0.49 | 6/6 | Robert Carrier, Bloc Québécois |
| 2008 provincial | Mille-Îles | Independent | 44 | 0.13 | 7/7 | Francine Charbonneau, Liberal |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 22 June 2009 | Marguerite-Bourgeoys | Independent | 41 | 0.38 | 8/8 | Clément Gignac, Liberal |
| 2009 Laval municipal | Mayor of Laval | Independent | 682 | 0.70 | 4/5 | Gilles Vaillancourt, Parti PRO des Lavallois |
| Quebec provincial by-election, 5 July 2010 | Vachon | Independent | 71 | 0.53 | 7/7 | Martine Ouellet, Parti Québécois |
| 2011 federal | Alfred-Pellan | Independent | 245 | 0.45 | 6/6 | Rosane Doré Lefebvre, New Democratic Party |
| Quebec provincial election, 4 September 2012 | Mille-Îles | Independent | 122 | 0,38 | 7/8 | Francine Charbonneau, Liberal |
| 2013 Laval municipal | Mayor of Laval | Independent | 611 | 0.53 | 9/9 | Marc Demers, Mouvement lavallois |

## Death

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