predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name
jean-claude gobe marc tanguay montreal , quebec independent mna for lafontaine 15 january 1971 may 1 , 2003 clementina teti-tomassi tony tomassi
 may 3 , 2012 tony tomassi
tony tomassi

tony tomassi -lrb- born january 15 , 1971 in montreal , quebec -rrb- is a quebec politician .
he is the former member of national assembly of quebec for the riding of lafontaine in montreal .
he formerly represented the quebec liberal party and was the minister for family , but was an independent until may 3 , 2012 , date of his resignation .
tomassi studied at the université du québec à montréal and the université de montréal but did not receive a university degree .
he was a political aide for liberal members for bourget and jeanne-mance .
he later became a general manager at group genco .
he was also a member of the montreal board of trade .
tomassi was a candidate for the progressive conservative party of canada in saint-léonard -- saint-michel , in the 1993 federal elections but was not elected as the conservatives were reduced to just two seats in the house of commons .
he would run in provincial politics and was elected in 2003 in lafontaine as a liberal .
he was re-elected in 2007 and named the parliamentary secretary to premier jean charest .
following the 2008 elections , he was named for the first time in the cabinet being designated as the minister for family replacing michelle courchesne who kept the portfolios of education , recreation and sport .
on may 6 , 2010 , after much controversy around the attribution of publicly subsidized daycare licenses , tony tomassi was asked to resign as minister for family and to leave the liberal caucus , after it was revealed he was using a business credit card in the name of canadian bureau of investigations and adjustments while sitting as an mna .
his portfolio was given to yolande james .
on may 3 , 2012 , he resigned his seat in the quebec national assembly .
in a brief statement , tomassi , said he had represented the east-end montreal lafontaine riding `` with pride . ''
`` and i recognize the confidence they showed in me on three occasions since 2003 , '' he wrote .
`` in the circumstances , i tried to remain an mna present in my riding , accessible and listening to citizens . ''
in october 2013 , his name came up again in the charbonneau commission when françois crête , former chief of staff for then-environment minister line beauchamp , told the charbonneau commission that tomassi had been lobbying for company called carboneutre which was run by domenic arcuri , who has ties to the rizzuto clan , and mob enforcer raynald desjardins .
while the two men were seeking funds from the investment arm of quebec 's largest labour movement , tomassi , then minister for family , was lobbying environment minister beauchamp to grant the company a permit to decontaminate soil .
he is married to clementina teti-tomassi , a montreal city councillor .
