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| DISTRICT: Hochelaga |
| Candidate |
Party |
Vote Count |
Vote Share |
Elected |
| R�al M�nard |
BQ |
27476 |
60.12%
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| Benoit Bouvier |
LIB |
11712 |
25.63%
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| David Gagnon |
NDP |
2510 |
5.49%
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| Mario Bernier |
CON |
1856 |
4.1%
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| Rolf Bramann |
GRN |
1361 |
2.98%
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| Antoine Th�or�t-Poupart |
MP |
482 |
1.05%
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| Pierre Bibeau |
COM |
190 |
0.42%
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| Christine Dandenault |
ML |
112 |
0.25%
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| Last Update: June 29, 5:38:24 AM EDT |
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of 215 polls reporting |
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Ridings
053 Hochelaga
2004 Candidates
Riding Profile
This riding is located in the east end of the city of Montreal. The riding is bounded by the St. Lawrence River in the east, Rue de Cadillac, Rue du Quesne and Boulevard Langelier in the north, Rue Bélanger in the west and Boulevard Pie IX, Sherbrooke Street East, Rue Sheppard and Rue Dufresne in the south.
This lower-income riding depends heavily on the manufacturing industry, followed by other services. Most people, about 77 per cent of households, rented their dwellings. Almost 16 per cent of the population has less than a Grade 9 education, while almost 12 per cent has a university degree. The average family income was $48,031 and unemployment was 10.6 per cent.
According to 1996 census, over 79 per cent have French as a mother tongue, while three per cent cited English. The total immigrant population is over 14 per cent, with large groups of Italian, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish-speaking people.
In 2004, the riding became Hochelaga and boundaries were moved to added 11 per cent of Laurier-St-Marie in the southeast, while the northern part of the riding was moved into neighbouring Anjou and Mercier ridings. The riding of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve was created in the 1976 redistribution from 51 per cent of Maisonneuve-Rosemont, 41 per cent of Hochelaga and eight per cent from Lafontaine. In 1996, the redistribution added portions of St-Léonard, Mercier and Anjou-Rivière-des-Prairies ridings.
Population: 100,968
Political History
In 2000, the Bloc Québécois's Réal Menard defeated Liberal Louis Morena to win his third term in office.
The former riding of Maisonneuve-Rosemont or Maisonneuve was Liberal from 1935. The former riding of Hochelaga was Liberal from 1917 and has elected several prominent Liberals. Gérard Pelletier, a Minister of Communications under Pierre Trudeau, won from 1965 to 1975. Pierre Juneau, then chair of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, was appointed to replace Pelletier as Minister of Communications in 1975 before being elected. But in the 1975 byelection, Juneau was defeated by Progressive Conservative Jacques Lavoie. Lavoie joined the Liberals in 1977, but lost the riding nomination in 1979. Juneau was appointed president of the CBC.
Liberal Serge Joyal, incumbent from Maisonneuve-Rosemont, won in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1979 and 1980. He was appointed Minister of State in 1981 and Secretary of State in 1982. In 1984, PC Edouard Desrosiers defeated Joyal. In 1988, Desrosiers resigned and withdrew as the 1988 candidate after it was revealed he'd been convicted of bank robbery 30 years before. In 1989, Desrosiers was fined $3,000 and put on a year's probation after pleading guilty to pocketing $7,463 of parlimanetary funds. PC Allan Koury won in 1988, but came in third in 1993.
1979, 1980 - LIB
1984, 1988 - PC
1993, 1997, 2000 - BQ
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Candidate Profiles
Benoit Bouvier
Party: Liberal Party of Canada
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University Degree: Yes
Education: Univ of Montreal - Arts and Science degree (Major in Political
Science). Certificate in International Commerce from École des
Hautes Études Commerciales.
Career Background: Began his career as an operations officer and team leader with Servisair.
He then joined Air Transat as a station coordinator, a position which he has held since 2000.
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Réal Ménard
Party: Bloc Quebecois
Birth Date: May 13, 1962
Age: 42
Birthplace: Montreal, PQ
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University Degree: Yes
Education: Univ of Montreal - BA (History), 1986; MA (Pol Sci), 1990
Law courses, Univ of Montreal.
Career Background: 1984-93 - President, l'Atelier d histoire Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. 1987-88 - Political Aide to the Councillor responsible for
International Relations, City of Montreal
1992-93 - VP of the Board of Dir of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Home
Services
1988-93 - Political Aide to Louise Harel, PQ M.N.A.
Community Involvement:
Member: Bd of Dir, Hébergements Humano, 1990;Fundraising Ctte for
Le Jardin Charmant childcare centre (1988-90); Exec, Assoc des
auxiliaires volontaires de la Résidence Maison-Neuve (1985-86).
- Vice-President of the Service � l'habitation Hochelaga-
Maisonneuve (1992-1993)
- President of the l'Atelier d'histoire Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
(1984-1993)
- Founding Pres, BQ Assoc in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (1991)
- Vice-President, Comité national des jeunes du Parti
Québécois (1987-1988)
- President of Parti Québécois of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
(1984-1987)
Political History
Federal: Elected in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1993, 1997, 2000.
Second MP to announce he is gay.
Political History (Federal/Provincial)
Committee: Former Vice-Chair: Standing Committe on Health
Former Member: Citizenship and Immigration; Special Committee
on non-medical use of drugs; Special Joint Committee to amend
Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 concerning the Quebec School System.
Member: Health
Caucus: Former Critic for: Federal Office of Regional Development-
Quebec; Science, Research and Development; Labour; National
Defence; Citizenship and Immigration; Public Housing; Same-Sex
Spousal Rights. Critic for: Health (since 1999); Region of Montreal (since 1993);
National Strategy on AIDS (since 1993).
Office Address:
4036, rue Ontario E
Montreal, PQ
(514) 283-2655
Capital Address:
Room 218 Justice Bldg
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ont
(613) 947-4576
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Mario Bernier
Party: Conservative Party of Canada
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Education: Diploma from the University of Montreal.
Career Background: He specializing in law and industrial relations.
In the business world, he has acted as a Manager and a Director.
In the past, he worked as legal consultant in work relations.
He has also served as a member of the Canadian Forces, mostly
in the areas of Tactical Intelligence.
He is currently Executive Director for Olympic McMaster.
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David Gagnon
Party: New Democratic Party of Canada
Birth Date: 1964
Birthplace: Place
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University Degree: Yes
Education: Bachelor's in Liturgy and Music from l Assomption College, a
Franco-American university in Massachusetts. Master's in
Pastoral Sciences from Saint Paul University in Ottawa.
Career Background: Chaplain in a number of communities.
Spokesperson for numerous organizations in defence of victims
of sexual abuse committed by members of the Church.
National coordinator of the Canadian Healing Circle and
pastoral representative of the United Church of Canada.
Candidate for the Conseil scolaire de l'Est de l'Ontario in
1997.
Political History
Party: Involved in the NDP since 1987 in various executive positions;
Federal candidate in 1997 and provincial candidate in 1999
Provincial: Defeated in Ottawa-Vanier in 1999
Federal: Defeated in Ottawa-Vanier in 1997
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Rolf Bramann
Party: The Green Party of Canada
Birthplace: Germany. Year of Arrival In Canada: 1974
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Career Background: He is president of Intercontinental Cargo Canada, an international shipping company in Montreal and Toronto.
He co-founded the Green party of Canada in 1983 and has been
working in countless organizations in the environment,
anti-nuclear, recycling, animal protection and various social justice movements.
He was with Eco-sense, a group which was abandoned about 10
years ago after it achieved what it was created for: pushing the city of Montreal to recycle.
Marital Status: Married
Children: 2
Political History
Provincial: Def in 1985 and 1989.
Federal: Def in 1984 and 1988
Tel: (514) 259-3580
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Pierre Bibeau
Party: Communist Party
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Political History
Provincial: Def in Bourget in 1998; in Fabre in 2003
Federal: Def in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 2000
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Christine Dandenault
Party: Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
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Political History
Provincial: Def in Cremazie in 1989; in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1994, 1998
and 2003
Federal: Def in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1993, 1997, 2000
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Antoine Théorêt-Poupart
Party: Marijuana Party
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Political History
Provincial: Def in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques in 2003.
Federal: Def in Papineau-Saint-Denis in 2000
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