Martin Lemay (born March 19, 1964, in Amos, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Parti Québécois (PQ) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec.
Martin Lemay | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | |
| In office April 10, 2006 – 2012 | |
| Preceded by | André Boulerice |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Breton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 19, 1964 Amos, Quebec |
| Political party | Parti Québécois |
| Portfolio | Immigration, cultural communities, Citizenship, Metropole |
Background
editHe studied history and sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He also received a post graduate certificate in public management at the École nationale d'administration publique.
Montreal city politics
editLemay began his political career in municipal politics being a councilor for the district of Sainte-Marie in the Montreal region from 1994 to 1998. In 2000, he was president of the Ville-Marie borough. When Pierre Bourque tried to be elected MNA for the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), he became leader of Vision Montréal, which was then the Official Opposition party against Gérald Tremblay.
Member of the legislature
editIn April 2006, he was elected in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques, the former stronghold of Claude Charron and André Boulerice, in a by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Nathalie Malépart, who was the daughter of former MNA Jean-Claude Malépart.
This was the first election in which the Québec Solidaire party took part. Lemay had received the support of the SPQ Libre of Pierre Dubuc.
At the time of his assembly nomination, Lemay asked Jean Charest to legislate on climate change, trying to benefit from the recent resignation of Thomas Mulcair. He was named spokesperson on Housing, replacing Nicole Léger.
After his 2007 re-election, he was named the PQ critic for Immigration and Cultural Communities.
See also
editElectoral record (partial)
edit| Quebec provincial by-election, April 10, 2006: Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Martin Lemay | 5,462 | 41.21 | -8.63 | ||||
| Liberal | Nathalie Malépart | 3,700 | 27.91 | -2.56 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 2,943 | 22.20 | +15.72* | ||||
| Green | Jean-Christophe Mortreux | 815 | 6.15 | +3.52 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Catherine Goyer | 257 | 1.94 | −6.39 | ||||
| Independent | Jocelyne Leduc | 50 | 0.38 | – | ||||
| Independent | Régent Millette | 28 | 0.21 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 13,255 | 99.24 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 101 | 0.76 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 13,356 | 31.47 | -30.04 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,437 | – | – | |||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | -3.04 | ||||||
| * Quebec solidaire vote is compared to the UFP vote in the 2003 election. | ||||||||
External links
edit- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.