Matthew Dubé (born May 3, 1988) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the

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in the 2011 federal election to represent the electoral district of Chambly—Borduas in

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as a member of the

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. He was re-elected in 2015 to the redistributed riding of Beloeil—Chambly but lost his seat in 2019.Election 2011: Chambly—Borduas
'' The Globe and Mail'', May 2, 2011.

Biography

Born in

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, Dubé was elected co-president of NDP McGill in September 2010 and was also elected president of the Quebec Young New Democrats in November 2010. At the time of his election to the House of Commons, he was a

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student completing his

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with a minor in

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. (password required) He married Chantale Neapole on June 30, 2018.

Politics

Dubé defeated incumbent MP

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of the

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by 15.1% or more than 10,000 votes in the 2011 election. Specifically, Dubé received 42.7% of the vote, Lessard received 27.6%,

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candidate Jean-François Mercier received 11.4%,

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candidate Bernard DeLorme received 8.9%, Conservative Party candidate Nathalie Ferland Drolet received 7.9%, and

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candidate Nicholas Lescarbeau received 1.5%. He was one of five current McGill University students, alongside fellow undergraduates Mylène Freeman, Laurin Liu, and Charmaine Borg, and graduate student Jamie Nicholls, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the New Democratic Party's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec. Borg and Dubé were co-presidents of NDP McGill (the NDP student group at McGill University) at the time that they both won election to Parliament, and both had spent the campaign working to re-elect NDP Quebec lieutenant

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in the nearby riding of Outremont. At the time of his election, Dubé had coached junior-league soccer and hockey for several years. Dubé was the only one of the so-called " McGill 5" re-elected in the 2015 election. Dubé was appointed the NDP critic for Infrastructure and Communities and Deputy House Leader in the

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. Subsequently, Dubé went on to become the party’s Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness critic as well as the NDP caucus chair. He was defeated in the 2019 federal election by Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the

Electoral record

References

External links

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Campaign web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dube, Matthew 1988 births Living people McGill University alumni Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec New Democratic Party MPs Politicians from Montreal 21st-century Canadian politicians