Jeanne-Le Ber

• Thierry St-Cyr (Incumbent)
• Daniel Beaudin
• Véronik Sansoucy
• Darryl Gray
• Christian Feuillette
• Daniel Breton

Thierry St-Cyr

Party: Bloc Québécois

Birthdate: Nov. 7, 1977

Age: 30

Birthplace: Laplaine, Que.

Education: Earned an international bachelor's degree in natural sciences in Geneva. Also studied computer engineering at the Université de technologie de Compiègne, the first engineering school in France, and received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Sherbrooke.

Profession: Engineer

Career Background: In 1998 and 1999, worked as a management consultant with CGI in Quebec. He also served as president of an information technology company until 2000, when he started working for TETRA Technologies, Inc., an international oil and gas services company. In 2001, he was an associate professor of engineering at the University of Sherbrooke. Worked as an engineer at Motorola in Montreal from 2001 until 2006 when he entered politics.

Community Activities: Was actively involved with the University of Sherbrooke, serving as president, administrator and honorary member of its engineering student association, president of Le Collectif, the school's campus newspaper, and board member of the school's faculty of engineering in 2000 and 2001.

Electoral History

Federal: Defeated in this riding in 2004 and first elected in 2006.

Political History

Committee: Served as vice-chair of the standing committee on citizenship and immigration, and its subcommittee on agenda and procedure. Served as a member of the standing committee on finance and its subcommittee on Bill C-28. Served as an associate member of the standing committees on liaison, foreign affairs and international development, and human resources, social development and the status of persons with disabilities.

Caucus: Member of the Bloc Québécois caucus

Mailing address:

3629 Wellington

Montreal, Que.

H4G 1V6

Contact information:

Telephone: 514-979-2562

jeanneleber@bloc.org

www.presentpourlequebec.org

Daniel Beaudin

Party: Conservative Party of Canada

Birthplace: Jeanne-Le Ber, Que.

Education: Graduate in marketing

Profession: Real estate agent

Children: One - Guillaume

Career Background: Has worked in sales for various companies including Corby Distilleries, a Canadian wine distributor, Stanley Works, a manufacturer of tools and hardware, and nine years at Imperial Tobacco, where he occupied several positions within the marketing department. Since 2003, has been a real estate agent for RE/MAX Vision Realty Inc.

Community Activities: Sat on the board of directors of the Yvon Lamarre Foundation, which organizes adapted residences and a day centre for people with disabilities, the Yvon-Brunet, Réal-Morel and Louis-Riel condominiums in Montreal, and served as president of the CLSC St-Henri's Foundation for five years. Also an active member of the Richelieu Club.

Electoral History

Municipal: Ran unsuccessfully in 2005.

Mailing address:

4319 Rue Wellington

Verdun, Que.

H4G 1W3

Contact information:

Telephone: 514-303-4755

info@danielbaudin.ca

www.danielbaudin.ca

Véronik Sansoucy

Party: Green Party of Canada

Age: 32

Birthplace: Montreal

Education: Earned degrees in biochemistry and occupational therapy from McGill University.

Profession: Occupational therapist

Children: One son

Career Background: Has worked in several public and private health clinics for six years, serving people with disabilities.

Community Activities: An active member of the rock-climbing community. In 2005, she assembled a team in Thailand to help a local person injured by the tsunami.

Contact information:

ridings.greenparty.ca

Darryl Gray

Party: Independent

Birthplace: Boston

Education: Political science degree from Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., BA from Acadia University.

Profession: Pastor

Career Background: Currently pastor of the Imani Family and Full Gospel Church in Little Burgundy, previously at Union United Church. Served five years in the American armed forces, worked for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and ran a black community newspaper in Nova Scotia. Former leader of Alliance Quebec, a provincial political party.

Christian Feuillette

Party: Liberal Party of Canada

Birthplace: France

Education: Has a master's degree in French literature and a history degree from a Paris university.

Profession: Publisher

Marital Status: Partner

Children: One

Career Background: Is the founder and manager of his own publishing company.

Community Activities: Is president of Auroville International Canada, which promotes the development of the ecological city of Auroville in southern India.

Contact information:

www.liberal.ca

Daniel Breton

Party: New Democratic Party of Canada

Birthdate: 1962

Birthplace: Montreal

Education: Studied political science at the University of Montreal and the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Career Background: Has worked in the area of skiing and outdoor sports, in public affairs radio and as an activist for social and ecological causes. Worked for many years in TV and cinema production.

Community Activities: Is an environmentalist and activist who participated in demonstrations at the Summit of the Americas in 2001 and who organized a march in Montreal against military intervention in Afghanistan. Is director of a Quebec association fighting pollution of the atmosphere and is a founder of QuébecKyoto, a coalition that supports the Kyoto Protocol.

Electoral History

Provincial: Ran unsuccessfully for the Green Party of Quebec, a party which he co-founded, in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the 2003 Quebec election.

Contact information:

danielbreton@ndp.ca

www.danielbreton.ca

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