Parti Québécois candidates, 2008 Quebec provincial election

The Parti Québécois (PQ) fielded a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election and elected fifty-one members to emerge as the Official Opposition party in the national assembly. Many of the party's candidates have separate biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Candidates

Argenteuil: John Saywell

John Saywell is a lawyer and urban planner.[1] One of the relatively few anglophone PQ members, he has served as a commissioner with the Office québécois de la langue française.[2] At a public meeting of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission in 2007, he called for blended provincial school boards that would end the de facto separation of students into French- and English-language schools.[3]

Saywell has been a PQ candidate in two provincial elections. He was elected mayor of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge in a December 2010 by-election, winning about fifty-six per cent of the vote.[4]

He is the son of the late Canadian historian John Saywell, who wrote a history of the Parti Québécois in 1977.

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes % Place Winner
2007 provincial Argenteuil Parti Québécois 6,891 25.84 3/5 David Whissell, Liberal
2008 provincial Argenteuil Parti Québécois 7,353 33.62 2/5 David Whissell, Liberal
Grenville-sur-la-Rouge by-election, 12 December 2010 Mayor n/a - 56 1/2 himself

Brome—Missisquoi: Richard Leclerc

Richard Leclerc was born and raised in Montreal and moved to Brome—Missisquoi on a full-time basis in 2003.[5] He is a veteran publicist and has taught social marketing at the Universite de Montreal.[6]

Leclerc has worked with the Quebec sovereigntist movement since the 1980 referendum on sovereignty. He has worked on several Parti Québécois and Bloc Québécois campaigns, and he assisted the government of Quebec's anti-smoking campaign in the mid-2000s.[7] In the 2005 municipal elections, he worked for the winning electoral slate in Sutton.[8]

He first ran for the Quebec legislature in the 2007 provincial election, calling for infrastructural renewal and a public market in Farnham.[9] In both 2007 and 2008, Leclerc lost to veteran Liberal Party politician Pierre Paradis.

Leclerc became editor of the Guide de la production locale et de l'achat chez nous, a Brome—Missisquoi tourism guide, in 2009.[10] In 2010, he designed a controversially brash campaign for Quebec medical specialists who were in wage negotiations with the government.[11]

There is a different Richard Leclerc who serves on the Commission scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke as of 2010.

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes % Place Winner
2007 provincial Brome—Missisquoi Parti Québécois 7,238 20.34 3/5 Pierre Paradis, Liberal
2008 provincial Brome—Missisquoi Parti Québécois 8,325 27.32 2/5 Pierre Paradis, Liberal

Jean-Lesage: Hélène Guillemette

Hélène Guillemette has Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Anthropology from Université Laval (1997, 1999).[12] She was a political attaché to Parti Québécois MNA François Gendron from 2003 to 2005. In February 2006, she became a development agent for À cœur d’homme, an organization that seeks to end male violence against women.[13] She is married to Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (MP) Pascal-Pierre Paillé, and the couple have two children.[14]

Guillemette sought the PQ nomination for Jean-Lesage in the 2007 provincial election, but lost to Christian Simard.[15] She later became president of the PQ's Jean-Lesage association in late 2007, defeating incumbent Jean-François Jacob in a highly contested vote.[16] After winning the party's nomination for the 2008 election, she took part in a high-profile party press conference on health issues.[17] She received 7,471 votes (26.68%), finishing second against Liberal candidate André Drolet.[18]

Orford: Michel Breton

Michel Breton became a riding assistant to Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (MP) Christian Ouellet in 2006, a position he still holds as of 2011.[19] He has run for the Parti Québécois in two elections.[20] In 2007, he opposed the sale of a part of Mont-Orford National Park to private interests.[21] As of 2011, he is the PQ's riding president in Orford.[22]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes % Place Winner
2007 provincial Orford Parti Québécois 11,158 28.46 3/5 Pierre Reid, Liberal
2008 provincial Orford Parti Québécois 12,516 36.93 2/5 Pierre Reid, Liberal

References

  1. ↑ Justin Bromberg, "Words exchanged in lead-up to Grenville-sur-la-Rouge election", The Review, 30 November 2010, accessed 21 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Kate Jaimet, "Language-law rebel gets personal warning: `We hope that you will conform to the law,' government letter says," Ottawa Citizen, 8 July 1999, A1.
  3. ↑ Jeff Heinrich, "French-rights group told to 'grow up'," Montreal Gazette, 1 December 2007, A1.
  4. ↑ "Élection partielle à Grenville-sur-la-Rouge: John Saywell élu maire", Les Nouvelles, 13 December 2010, accessed 21 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "Leclerc promises to block Orford sale," Sherbrooke Record, 15 March 2007, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Maurice Crossfield, "Candidates battle to change old habits," Sherbrooke Record, 22 March 2007, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Maurice Crossfield, "Aims to unseat Liberal," Sherbrooke Record, 1 March 2007, p. 7; Maurice Crossfield, "PQ's Leclerc to take on Paradis," Sherbrooke Record, 6 October 2006, p. 7.
  8. ↑ Maurice Crossfield, "Aims to unseat Liberal," Sherbrooke Record, 1 March 2007, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Maurice Crossfield, "Leclerc throws support behind four Farnham projects," Sherbrooke Record, 7 March 2007, p. 8; Maurice Crossfield, "Signs send mixed signals," Sherbrooke Record, 13 March 2007, p. 5.
  10. ↑ Sarah Rogers, "Guide to boost local merchants," Sherbrooke Record, 7 July 2009, p. 3.
  11. ↑ Philip Authier, "Medical specialists under fire for ads," Montreal Gazette, 13 March 2010, A8.
  12. ↑ Hélène Guillemette: Jean-Lesage, Parti Québécois election document, accessed 17 January 2010.
  13. ↑ Michel Bédard, Hélène Guillemette représentera le PQ dans Jean-Lesage, Québec Hebdo, 10 June 2008.
  14. ↑ Michel Bédard, Hélène Guillemette axe sa campagne sur la famille, Québec Hebdo, 12 November 2008.
  15. ↑ Rhéal Séguin, "Former Bloc MPs to enter PQ fold," Globe and Mail, 8 February 2007, A4; Jean-François Néron, "Christian Simard représentera le PQ dans Jean-Lesage," Le Soleil, 21 February 2007, p. 11. The former article described Guillemette as having been supported by the PQ establishment.
  16. ↑ Michel Corbeil, "Le président remplacé," Le Soleil, 13 November 2007, p. 9.
  17. ↑ "Hôtel-Dieu de Québec - Un autre cafouillage libéral qui coûte cher aux contribuables," Canada Newswire, 18 November 2008, 11:28 am.
  18. ↑ She was thirty-six years old at the time of the election. See Josée Guimond, "Retour dans le clan libéral," Le Soleil, 9 December 2008, p. 8.
  19. ↑ Rita Legault, "Regional PQ president hopes to run in Orford," Sherbrooke Record, 13 September 2006, p. 4; Vincent Cliche, "La clé d'une victoire péquiste dans Orford réside dans Magog", Le reflect du lac, 4 January 2011, accessed 6 February 2011.
  20. ↑ He defeated Étienne Vézina for the nomination in 2007. See "Breton wins Orford nod," Sherbrooke Record, 23 February 2007, p. 4. Perhaps ironically, Vézina worked as an assistant to France Bonsant, another Bloc Québécois in a neighbouring riding. See Rita Legault, "Is rural letter delivery hazardous?", Sherbrooke Record, 4 October 2007, p. 3.
  21. ↑ Rita Legault, "Vote PQ or imperil our children's future," Sherbrooke Record, 8 March 2007, p. 5.
  22. ↑ Vincent Cliche, "La clé d'une victoire péquiste dans Orford réside dans Magog", Le reflect du lac, 4 January 2011, accessed 6 February 2011.
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