| Jean Filion | |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Quebec City, Quebec |
| Party: | Independent |
| Otherparty: | Parti Québécois (until 1995) |
| Office: | MNA for Montmorency |
| Term Start: | 1991 |
| Term End: | 1998 |
| Predecessor: | Yves Séguin |
| Successor: | Jean-François Simard |
Jean Filion (born March 22, 1951) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Montmorency in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1991 to 1998. He was a member of Parti Québécois.[1]
He was the party's candidate in Montmorency in the 1985 provincial election but lost to Yves Séguin of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was first elected in a by-election on August 12, 1991, following Séguin's resignation, and was reelected in the 1994 election. He left the party to sit as an independent in 1995[2] and ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Beauport in 1996.[1] He ran as an independent candidate in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Jean-François Simard.[3]
He was later charged with thirteen counts of fraud and breach of trust, after allegations that he diverted funds from his MNA expense budget into renovations for a building he owned.[4] He was convicted in 2004 on eight of the thirteen counts,[5] and sentenced to six months in jail. He was subsequently stripped of his designation as a chartered accountant by the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants.
Due to his conviction, the National Assembly withheld a sizable "transition payment" that he would have been entitled to as an outgoing MNA.[6] He filed a lawsuit against the provincial government in the Quebec Superior Court in 2012 for $52,617 in transition payments, $50,000 in moral damages and $42,000 to cover legal fees and expenses. In February 2013, Superior Court Justice Suzanne Hardy-Lemieux ruled that he was entitled to partial compensation of $29,699 for the transition payments, but rejected his claim for additional damages and expenses.