Léo Bureau-Blouin | |
Birth Date: | 17 December 1991 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Party: | Parti Québécois |
Office: | MNA for Laval-des-Rapides |
Term Start: | 2012 |
Term End: | 2014 |
Predecessor: | Alain Paquet |
Successor: | Saul Polo |
Léo Bureau-Blouin (born December 17, 1991) is a former Quebec politician who in the 2012 provincial election at age 20 became the youngest person ever to be elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec.[1] He was elected in the district of Laval-des-Rapides for the Parti Québécois. He was previously a student leader, president of the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, who played a key role in organizing the 2012 Quebec student protests.[2] He lost his seat in the 2014 general election on April 7 to the Quebec Liberal Party candidate Saul Polo.
Bureau-Blouin was born in Montreal and grew up in Saint-Hyacinthe. At the time of the 2012 election he was enrolled as a law student at the Université de Montréal.[3]