Nick Discepola
{{Short description|Italian-born Canadian politician and businessman}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox Politician
| name = Nick Discepola
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1949|11|27}}
| birth_place = Avellino, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|11|21|1949|11|27}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| office = Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil-Soulanges
| term_start = October 25, 1993
| term_end = June 28, 2004
| predecessor = Pierre Cadieux
| successor = Meili Faille
| party = Liberal
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| profession =
| spouse = Mary-Alice Discepola
| children = Lisa Discepola, Marco Discepola, Laura Discepola, Michele Discepola
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Nunzio "Nick" Discepola (November 27, 1949 – November 21, 2012) was an Italian-born Canadian politician and businessman.
Education and career
Discepola obtained a Bachelor of Science (1972) and a Master of Business Administration (1977) from McGill University.
Before founding his own company in the high tech sector "N.D. Computer Resources" at the age of 26, he worked for Bell Canada and the federal government as a computer specialist.
From 1989 to 1992 he served as mayor of Kirkland, Quebec.{{cite web| url=http://controlcancer.ca/about-us/c2cc-board/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101021520/http://controlcancer.ca/about-us/c2cc-board/| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 1, 2012| title=C2CC Board| accessdate=November 22, 2012}}
Discepola was a Member of Parliament representing the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of Vaudreuil from 1993 to 1997 (serving as Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General from 1996 to 1998), and then Vaudreuil-Soulanges between 1997 and 2004. In 2004, he lost his seat to the Bloc Québécois's Meili Faille.
Discepola died on November 21, 2012, of cancer six days shy of his 63rd birthday.{{cite web|url=http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/former-mp-and-kirkland-mayor-nick-discepola-dead-at-62-1.1048731|title=Former MP and Kirkland mayor Nick Discepola dead at 62|date=2012-11-21|publisher=CTV Montreal|accessdate=22 November 2012}}
Electoral record
{{1993 Canadian federal election/Vaudreuil}}
References
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External links
- {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9443}}
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Category:Deaths from cancer in Quebec
Category:Italian emigrants to Canada
Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Category:McGill University Faculty of Management alumni
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Quebec
Category:People from Kirkland, Quebec
Category:21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada