Québec solidaire candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election explained
Québec Solidaire fielded 122 candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election. One candidate, Amir Khadir, was elected. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Candidates
Loïc Kauffeisen
Éric Noël
Éric Noël is a graduate of Cégep de Sorel-Tracy in electrodynamics. He lived in McMasterville at the time of the 2008 election and was the production coordinator at an energy technology company. An avid sportsperson and amateur musician, he is also involved in campaigns for the environment and social justice.[4] Twenty-three years old in his first campaign, he has run for Québec Solidaire in two elections.[5]
Gaëtan Legault
Gaëtan Legault was the founder of the Coalition to Humanize Notre Dame Street, a coalition that fought the expansion of Montreal's Notre Dame Street East in 2008.[6] He has been a Québec solidaire candidate in two elections.
Diane Cormier
Marianne Mathis
Marianne Mathis was born and raised in Saint-Sylvère, Quebec. She was a founding member of Québec Solidaire, having previously been involved in the feminist movement and Option citoyenne, and she has been a party candidate in two provincial elections.[10] Mathis was 21 years old in 2008, and was studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography at the Université Laval.[11] She focused her 2008 campaign on agriculture, economic development, and stemming the flow of young people from the area.[12]
In March 2009, Parti Québécois legislator Jean-Martin Aussant announced that Mathis had become a member of his office.[13]
Patricia Tremblay
Patricia Tremblay is a mental health nurse. Originally from the Saguenay area,[14] she worked for a CLSC in Coaticook at the time of the 2008 election.[15] She is also an environmental activist who has served as president of the Societe pour la conservation du Lac Lovering.[16] In 2007, she organized a public campaign against the presence of a landfill near the head of Lake Memphremagog.[17] She has also opposed the provincial government's decision to privatize part of Mont-Orford National Park.[15]
Tremblay has run for Québec solidaire in two provincial elections. In 2009, she was nearly elected to a city council seat in Magog.
Paul Martin
Paul Martin is a lifelong resident of Sorel (now Sorel-Tracy), Quebec, with over thirty years of teaching experience at the Cégep de SorelTracy. In 2003–04, he served as secretary-general of the Commission scolaire de SorelTracy. An engineer by background, he received a Ph.D. in educational science in 2007.
Martin joined Québec Solidaire shortly after its formation in 2006.[18] He received 705 votes (2.86%) in 2008, finishing fourth against Parti Québécois incumbent Sylvain Simard.
References
- https://www.ledevoir.com/loisirs/alimentation/239237/bienvenue-chez-le-ch-ti-des-laurentides Philippe Mollé, "Bienvenue chez le Ch'ti des Laurentides"
- Mychel Lapointe, "Loïc Kauffeisen avec Québec solidaire," Journal Le Nord, 18 November 2008, accessed 21 January 2011.
- http://www2.electionsquebec.qc.ca/corpo/francais/elections-generales-provincial.asp?bsq=Argenteuil§ion=resultats_gen&even=%272008%27&mode=%27n3%27#resul Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/borduas/eric-noel-votre-candidat-de-quebec-solidaire-dans-borduas Eric Noël, votre candidat de Québec solidaire dans Borduas!
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/richelieu/eric-noel-candidat-dans-richelieu Eric Noël candidate dans Richelieu
- Michelle Lalonde, "Key changes readied for road project; Notre Dame St. facelift set for fall," Montreal Gazette, 9 May 2008, A7; Jan Ravensbergen, "Notre Dame St. expansion on wrong track, hearings told," Montreal Gazette, 7 February 2008, A6.
- http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/francais/provincial/resultats-electoraux/elections-partielles.php?e=5&s=1#s Official results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (Bourget, 12 May 2008)
- http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/francais/provincial/resultats-electoraux/elections-generales.php?e=3&c=387&s=1#s Official results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (Bourget, 2008)
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/brome-missisquoi/diane-cormier-why-i-wish-to-be-your-brome-missisquoi-representative-with-quebec-solidaire "Diane Cormier: Why I wish to be your Brome-Missisquoi representative with Quebec solidaire,"
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/nicolet-yamaska/marianne-mathis-sillustre-a-ledition-2008-de-laurier-17 Marianne Mathis s'illustre à l'édition 2008 de Laurier 17
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/nicolet-yamaska/marianne-mathis-sera-la-candidate-de-quebec-solidaire-dans-nicolet-yamaska-nicolet Marianne Mathis sera la candidate de Québec Solidaire dans Nicolet-Yamaska Nicolet
- http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/nicolet-yamaska/marianne-mathis-devoile-sa-plate-forme-electorale-2 Marianne Mathis dévoile sa plate-forme électorale
- http://www.lanouvelle.net/article-314109-Marianne-Mathis-se-joint-a-lequipe-de-JeanMartin-Aussant.html Marianne Mathis se joint à l'équipe de Jean-Martin Aussant
- http://www.lerefletdulac.com/Politique/2006-12-13/article-737853/Patricia-Tremblay-elue-candidate-de-Quebec-solidaire/1 Vincent Cliche, "Patricia Tremblay élue candidate de Québec solidaire"
- Rita Legault, "Sovereigntists don't expect to win seats," Sherbrooke Record, 18 November 2008, p. 1.
- Rita Legault, "Plans to dump waste in watershed," Sherbrooke Record, 5 March 2007, p. 5; "Reid holds on in Orford," Sherbrooke Record, 27 March 2007, p. 4.
- "Magog, regional government oppose waste plan," Sherbrooke Record, 18 May 2007, p. 5. La Lovering is located at the head of Lac Memphremagog.
- http://www.soreltracyregion.net/actualite/page/election/s/pmartin Paul Martin, Candiddat Québec Solidaire
