Simon Jolin-Barrette
| Simon Jolin-Barrette | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Borduas | |
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Assumed office 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Duchesne |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Coalition Avenir Québec |
Simon Jolin-Barrette is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election. He represents the riding of Borduas as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).[1]
Political career
Jolin-Barrette was part of a group of 40 young entrepreneurs who joined the CAQ at the time of the party's founding in 2011. He ran as the CAQ candidate in Marie-Victorin in the 2012 Quebec election, coming in second to Bernard Drainville of the Parti Québécois (PQ).[2][3]
In the 2014 election, Jolin-Barrette defeated the PQ candidate in Borduas, Pierre Duchesne (the then Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology), by 99 votes.[4] Notwithstanding the small margin of defeat, Duchesne and the PQ chose not to seek a judicial recount of the ballots.[5]
Personal life
Jolin-Barrette grew up in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a south-shore suburb of Montreal.[2] He is a practicing lawyer, with a BCL (civil law), Juris Doctor (common law) and Master of Laws from the Université de Sherbrooke, where he wrote his Masters Thesis on the subject of Senate reform (comparing the Senate of Canada to the Australian Senate).[6]
At the time of his election in 2014, Jolin-Barrette was employed as a lawyer by the City of Montreal. He was also pursuing a LL.D in constitutional law at the Université de Montréal as well as a diploma in public administration at the École nationale d'administration publique.[2]
References
- ↑ "François Legault indique qu'il restera à l'Assemblée nationale pour quatre ans". La Presse, April 8, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Simon Jolin-Barrette". Coalition Avenir Québec. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ↑ "Marie-Victorin". Les résultats électoraux depuis 1867, Maisonneuve à Matane–Matapédia. National Assembly of Quebec. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ↑ "Borduas - Preliminary results". Directeur général des élections du Québec. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ↑ "Pas de dépouillement judiciaire dans Ste-Marie-St-Jacques". La Presse. 11 April 2014. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
Dans la circonscription de Borduas, l'ex-ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et ténor péquiste Pierre Duchesne a décidé de ne pas contester le résultat du scrutin.
- ↑ "Entrevue avec M. Simon Jolin-Barrette, avocat et candidat aux élections provinciales". Jurizone. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
External links
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.