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Lalonde was employed in the Public Service of Canada from 1956 to 1990. He served for a time as the Manager of the Canadian Government Printing Bureau , and was responsible for the establishment and operation of Technical Training and Development for the Canada Communications Group . Outside of public service, Lalonde was a co-owner of the Hull Olympiques hockey team in the Quebec Junior Hockey League for the time, and was a Director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1972 to 1976.

He was also Mayor on Rockland, Ontario from 1976 to 1991. For eleven years, Lalonde was a Director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario , and was also the Vice-President of the Association for Francophone Municipalities of Ontario for a time.

Lalonde was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, in the safe Liberal (and predominantly francophone) seat of Prescott and Russell in the easternmost section of the province. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Lalonde joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition. He was re-elected without difficulty in the new riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell in the general election of 1999.

The Liberals won the 2003 electionThe province of Ontario, Canada conducted a general election on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves after the governing, in which Lalonde defeated his closest opponent by almost 20,000 votes. On September 27September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. Events 489 Odoacer attacks Theoderic at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again. 1540 Jesuit Order receives its charter from Pope Paul I, 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, he was named Parliamentary Assistant to Harinder TakharHarinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty. Takhar is the first Indo-Canadian to hold a cabinet pos, the Ontario Minister of Transportation .