Scott McKay (born December 2, 1960) is a

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politician, who served as a former leader of the

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and a former

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council member. McKay was elected in 2008 to the Quebec National Assembly for the

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but he was defeated in the

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Background

McKay was born to a

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mother and an Irish-

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father in the town of Montréal-Est. He has completed a

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in Environmental sciences at the

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and is currently working in the field of water treatment. He also obtained a

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in sciences at the UQAM in 1987.

Municipal politics

In 1986, he was elected to

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as candidate of

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's '' Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM)'' for the district of Honoré-Beaugrand. He was re-elected in 1990, but lost to

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in 1994 as Pierre Bourque became mayor.

Provincial politics

McKay became leader of the

on May 28, 2006. The party ran candidates in 108 out of

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's 125 districts in

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. None of them was elected. McKay himself finished fourth in the district of Bourget with 2,632 ballots and about 8.09% of the vote. The winner was

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of the

. McKay lost the party leadership at a convention held in

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on March 29, 2008. Guy Rainville had won a mail-in vote with 268 ballots (54%) against McKay's 225. Nonetheless, McKay was the Green candidate in the

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that was called as a result of Lemieux's resignation in the district of Bourget.

Switch to the Parti Québécois

McKay switched parties to run for the Parti Québécois in the 2008 Quebec election, in the riding of

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On December 8, 2008, he was elected as an MNA for the PQ in the riding of L'Assomption. Due to riding redistribution, McKay ran in the new riding of Repentigny in the 2012 Quebec election and won. Eighteen months later, McKay was defeated by

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in the

Electoral record (partial)

References

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Parti Quebecois biopage
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