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Groulx
Groulx is a provincial electoral district in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the city of Boisbriand as well as a few other small cities. It was created for the 1981 election from a part of the Terrebonne electoral district. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small part of the city of Blainville from the Blainville electoral district; it did not previously include any part of that city. In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose the Saint-Rédempteur neighbourhood of Blainville to the riding of Blainville. From its creation in 1981 until 2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ..., Groulx was a bellwether riding always ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Daneault
Hélène Daneault (born 29 May 1961) is a Canadian politician. She was a Coalition Avenir Québec member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Groulx from 2012 to 2014, first elected in the 2012 election. Prior to her election to the legislature, she served as mayor of Rosemère Rosemère is an affluent suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality. The town is noted for its green look, due to the high de .... References External links * Living people 1961 births Coalition Avenir Québec MNAs Women MNAs in Quebec People from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Université de Sherbrooke alumni Canadian women physicians Canadian general practitioners 20th-century Canadian physicians 21st-century Canadian physicians 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians Mayors of places in Quebec Women mayors of places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Girard (Groulx MNA)
Eric Girard is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. , October 1, 2018. He represents the electoral district of as a member of the and is the current |
Linda Lapointe
Linda Lapointe (born July 2, 1960) is a Canadian businesswoman and politician from Quebec. She was an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Groulx from 2007 to 2008. She was elected as the federal Member of Parliament (MP) for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles in the 2015 election, as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and sat until the 2019 Canadian federal election when she lost her seat. Biography Lapointe has a college diploma in health sciences from the CEGEP Ahuntsic. In 1986, she received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Université de Montréal. Since her teenage years, she has been working at her father's grocery store Provigo. From 1988 to 1997, she worked as the director of the store. She officially took over the family business in 1997, she became the owned and director of Provigo Lapointe et Fille. She sold the store in 2006. Community involvement In addition to her career as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Rose (provincial Electoral District)
Sainte-Rose is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located within the city of Laval, Quebec. It was created for the 2012 election from parts of Fabre Fabre or Fabré is a surname of Occitan French origin, and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * André Fabre (born 1945), French thoroughbred horse racing trainer * Cándido Fabré, Cuban musician, songwriter and singer * Cath ... and Vimont electoral districts. Including its predecessor ridings (Vimont from 1981 to 2012 and Fabre before that), Sainte-Rose has voted for the governing party in every election since 1970. Members of the National Assembly Election results 2014 reference: ^ Change is from redistributed results; CAQ change is from ADQ References External links ;Information: Elections Quebec ;Maps 2011 map(PDF) 2001–2011 changes to Fabre(Flash) 2001–2011 changes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec
Sainte-Thérèse is an off-island suburb northwest of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality. The town is mostly known as a home for heavy industry, but it is also a centre of recreational and tourist activities. It is near the southern limit of a web of cross-country ski trails which meander through the Laurentides. Heading north, it is possible to undertake several nature-filled days of skiing towards major resort centres such as Mont-Tremblant. During the summer, many of the ski trails are used as dedicated bicycle paths, making it possible to undertake day-long or week-long cycling excursions through unspoiled areas, from one resort area to another, without sharing the right of way with motorized vehicles. History On September 23, 1683, in recognition of his military services, Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre (governor of New France) granted the seigneury of the Thousand Islands to Michel-Sidrac Dugué d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Gauvreau
René Gauvreau is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Groulx in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Parti Québécois, but sat as an independent for nine months until rejoining the PQ caucus in April 2012. Gauvreau is a graduate of the Université de Montréal, where he obtained a law degree in 1987, and practiced law until his election in 2008. Gauvreau also worked as a member of several non-profit organizations and foundations mostly in the lower Laurentides region. Gauvreau defeated the ADQ's Linda Lapointe in the Groulx riding in the 2008 elections as the PQ swept most of the Northern Montreal suburbs (north of Laval Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxem ...) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in french: link=no, Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; french: link=no, députés). The King in Right of Quebec, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other Westminster-style parliamentary systems. The assembly has 125 members elected first past the post from single-member districts. The National Assembly was formerly the lower house of Quebec's legislature and was then called the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In 1968, the upper house, the Legislative Council, was abolished and the remaining house was renamed. The office of President of the National Assembly is equivalent to speaker in other legislatures. As of the 2022 Quebec general election, Coalition Avenir Québec has the most seats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Surprenant
Claude Surprenant is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec until 2017, when he was removed from the CAQ caucus. He then sat as an independent member of the assembly until 2018, when he was defeated in the 2018 election. Career Prior to being elected to the National Assembly, Suprenant was a member of the Investment Industry Association of Canada. In January 2012, he founded the company Ascendi, a financial management company, in Blainville. Suprenant worked for more than 25 years as vice-president and investment advisor. Suprenant is a graduate of Collège Laval. Expense scandal On January 24, 2017, Surprenant was ejected from the CAQ caucus after his former aide revealed information about his overcharging for his car allowance and for billing the National Assembly for a hotel room when the legislature was not sitting. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Quebec General Election
The 2007 Quebec general election was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26, 2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Premier Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, but were reduced to a minority government, Quebec's first in 129 years, since the 1878 general election. The Action démocratique du Québec, in a major breakthrough, became the official opposition. The Parti Québécois was relegated to third-party status for the first time since the 1973 election. The Liberals won their lowest share of the popular vote since Confederation, and the PQ with their 28.35% of the votes cast won their lowest share since 1973 and their second lowest ever (ahead of only the 23.06% attained in their initial election campaign in 1970). Each of the three major parties won nearly one-third of the popular vote, the closest three-way split (in terms of popular vote) in Quebec electoral history until the 2012 election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Descoteaux
Pierre Descoteaux (16 February 1952 – 9 April 2018) was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Quebec. From 2003 to 2007 he was Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the provincial electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Life and career Descoteaux earned a Bachelor of Science degree at McGill University, then earned his law degree at University of Montreal. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec and practised law from 1986 to 2003. He taught law at the Bar school, then at Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières . He was elected to the National Assembly for the first time in the 2003 Quebec general election, with a narrow margin of 300 votes ahead of Robert Kieffer of Parti Québécois. He was defeated by Linda Lapointe of the Action Démocratique du Québec in the 2007 Quebec general election. Descoteaux is a critic of Canadian federalism and has described himself as the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blainville, Quebec
Blainville is a suburb of Montreal located on the North Shore in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Blainville forms part of the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality within the Laurentides region of Quebec. The town sits at the foot of the Laurentian Mountains and is located northwest of downtown Montreal. History Louis de Buade de Frontenac granted a vast territory that includes present-day Blainville to elite members of society, lords ("seigneurs") or ''seigneurs'', to promote the development of New France in 1683. The ''Seigneurie des Mille Îles'' (Lordship of the Thousand Islands) encompassed over along the northern shores of the Mille Îles River. In 1792, a disagreement between Seigneur Hertel and Seigneuresse Lamarque resulted in a division of the seigneurial territory along what was then-called the Great Line (present-day Boulevard du Curé-Labelle or Quebec Route 117). Blainville is named for the third lord of the seigneurie, Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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