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Jean-Denis Garon
Jean-Denis Garon is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Mirabel in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament. The Writ of election, writs of election were issued by Governor General of .... An economist, Garon is a professor at UQAM's School of Management Sciences. Since 2021 he has served as the critic of national revenue, green finance and green equalization in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet. Electoral record References External links * Living people Bloc Québécois MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec 1980s births 21st-century Canadian economists Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{BlocQuébécois-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (Canada)
A member of Parliament (post-nominal letters: MP; , ) is an elected politician in the House of Commons of Canada, the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Terminology The term's primary use is in reference to the members of the House of Commons. In legislation, it can also refer to the members of the Senate of Canada, but in common usage, the title ''senator'' () is typically used. By contrast, no such alternate title exists for members of the House of Commons. A less ambiguous term for members of both chambers is ''parliamentarian''. MPs each represent an individual Electoral district (Canada), electoral district, also known as a ''constituency'' or ''riding''. MPs are elected using the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system in a Elections in Canada, general election or by-election, usually held every four years or less. In contrast, the 105 members of the Senate are appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Prime Minister of Canada, prime minister. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirabel (federal Electoral District)
Mirabel () is a federal electoral district in Quebec. It encompasses a portion of Quebec previously included in the electoral districts of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Terrebonne—Blainville and Rivière-du-Nord. Mirabel was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015. Demographics ''According to the 2021 Canadian census'' Ethnic groups: 91.8% White, 2.1% Indigenous, 2.0% Black, 1.4% Arab, 1.0% Latin American Languages: 90.3% French, 2.9% English, 1.0% Spanish Religions: 63.4% Christian (55.9% Catholic, 7.5% Other), 1.8% Muslim, 34.1% None Median income: $45,600 (2020) Average income: $52,550 (2020) Members of Parliament This riding has elected the following members of Parliament: Election results See also * List of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Marcil
Simon Marcil is a former Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Mirabel from 2015 to 2021. Marcil was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 election as a member of the Bloc Québécois. On February 28, 2018, however, Marcil, along with six other Bloc MPs, resigned from the Bloc's caucus to sit as an independent MP citing conflicts with the leadership style of Martine Ouellet. Following Ouellet's resignation, he rejoined the party on June 6, 2018. He was re-elected in the 2019 federal election. On December 22, 2020, the ''National Post'' reported that Marcil had been on prolonged medical leave since January 31, 2020, all without informing his constituents. In January 2021, he announced he would not run again in the 2021 federal election. Prior to his election, Marcil worked for Hydro-Québec Hydro-Québec () is a Canadian Crown corporations of Canada#Quebec, Crown corporation public utility headquartered i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois (, , BQ) is a centre-left politics, centre-left and list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism, Quebecois nationalism, social democracy, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Quebecois sovereignty. The Bloc was formed in the early 1990s by Member of Parliament (Canada), Members of Parliament (MPs) who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party during the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord. Founder Lucien Bouchard had been a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. The Bloc seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secession of Quebec from Canada and campaigns exclusively within the province during federal elections. The party has been described as social democratic and Quebec sovereignty movement, separatist (or "sovereign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as Member of Parliament (Canada), members of Parliament (MPs). The number of MPs is adjusted periodically in alignment with each decennial Census in Canada, census. Since the 2025 Canadian federal election, 2025 federal election, the number of seats in the House of Commons has been 343. Members are elected plurality voting, by simple plurality ("first-past-the-post" system) in each of the country's Electoral district (Canada), electoral districts, which are colloquially known as ''ridings''. MPs may hold office until Parliament is dissolved and serve for constitutionally limited terms of up to five years after an election. Historically, however, terms have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Canadian Federal Election
The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament. The Writ of election, writs of election were issued by Governor General of Canada, Governor General Mary Simon on August 15, 2021, when Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested the Dissolution of parliament in Canada, dissolution of parliament for a snap election. Trudeau won a third term as prime minister, his second minority government. Though the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberals were hoping to win a majority government in order to govern alone, the results were mostly unchanged from the 2019 Canadian federal election. The Liberals won the most seats at 160; as this fell short of the 170 seats needed for a majority in the House of Commons, they formed a minority government with support from other parties. The 2021 election set a new record for the lowest vote share for a party that wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet Of The 44th Parliament Of Canada
This is a list of members of the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet of the 44th Canadian Parliament. Members The shadow cabinet was named following the 2021 Canadian federal election: * Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly): Leader of the Bloc * Claude DeBellefeuille ( Salaberry—Suroît): Whip * Alain Therrien ( La Prairie): House leader, democratic institutions, single tax returns * Marie-Hélène Gaudreau (Laurentides—Labelle): Caucus chair * Xavier Barsalou-Duval (Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères): Transport, infrastructure and communities * Mario Beaulieu ( La-Pointe-de-l’Île): Official languages (francophones outside Quebec), Court Challenges Program * Stéphane Bergeron ( Montarville): Foreign affairs and international development, international cooperation, Canada-China relations * Sylvie Bérubé ( Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou): Families, children and social development * Maxime Blanchette-Joncas ( Rimouski-Neigette–Témiscouata–Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Bloc Québécois MPs
Bloc may refer to: Government and politics * Political bloc, a coalition of political parties * Trade bloc, a type of intergovernmental agreement * Voting bloc, a group of voters voting together * Black bloc, a tactic used by protesters who wear black clothing to conceal identities by making it difficult to distinguish between participants Other uses * Bloc (code school), an educational website * Bloc Hotels, a British hotel chain See also * * * Block (other) * Bloc Party, a band * Bloc party, a political party that is a constituent member of an electoral bloc * Bloc Québécois, a political party in Canada * Block voting, or bloc voting, types of electoral systems * Eastern Bloc, a former group of communist states during the Cold War * Western Bloc The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, the Freedom Bloc, the Free Bloc, and the American Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
