Green Party of Quebec candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election

The Green Party of Quebec ran eighty candidates in the 2008 provincial election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

Candidates

Brome-Missisquoi: Louise Martineau

Louise Martineau has a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and international relations and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, both from the Université de Sherbrooke. She joined the Green Party in 2004 and has been a party candidate at both the federal and provincial levels. Her website features a political/poetic manifesto entitled La Flamme Sacrée du Québec.[1]

Martineau sought the leadership of the Quebec Green Party in November 2010. She finished third against Claude Sabourin.[2]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
2004 federal Brome—Missisquoi Green 2,011 4.55 4/5 Denis Paradis, Liberal
2008 provincial Brome—Missisquoi Green 1,012 3.32 4/6 Pierre Paradis, Liberal

Chapleau: Roger Fleury

Roger J. Fleury has Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Social Science, and Master of Education degrees from the University of Ottawa, and is a retired teacher of history and economics.[3] He served on the board of the Pavillon du Parc, a centre for severely disabled children located in Aylmer, until its administration was taken over by the Quebec government in the 1990s; one of Fleury's own children is severely disabled.[4]

He has been a Green Party candidate in two elections and also ran for mayor of Gatineau in 2009. Sixty-six years old during the municipal campaign, he was president of the Coalition for Rapid Transit in the Outaouais and called for a light rail network to replace the city's planned Rapibus transitway. He also proposed a new Gatineau city square that would combine a football stadium, soccer pitch, and amphitheatre.[5]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
2007 provincial Chapleau Green 1,755 5.42 4/6 Benoît Pelletier, Liberal
2008 provincial Chapleau Green 1,032 4.04 4/7 Marc Carrière, Liberal
2009 municipal Mayor of Gatineau n/a 1,198 1.71 5/6 Marc Bureau

Orford: Louis Hamel

Louis Hamel is a businessperson who served on the city council of Deauville before it was amalgamated into Sherbrooke. He has been a Green Party candidate in two provincial elections. In the 2007 election, he spoke against the provincial government's sale of a part of the Mont-Orford National Park.[6] He was forty-eight years old in 2008.[7]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
2007 provincial Orford Green 1,798 4.59 4/5 Pierre Reid, Liberal
2008 provincial Orford Green 1,026 3.03 5/5 Pierre Reid, Liberal

Richelieu: Patrick Lamothe

Patrick Lamothe was born and raised in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. He was twenty-two years old at the time of the election and was completing a Bachelor's Degree in teaching secondary social studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[8] He called for measures that would stop the exodus of young people from the Sorel-Tracy area.[9] He received 693 votes (2.81%), finishing fifth against Parti Québécois incumbent Sylvain Simard.

References
  1. louisemartineau.com (home page), Louise Martineau, accessed 4 December 2010. See also Maurice Crossfield, "Martineau a Green choice for Brome-Missisquoi voters," Sherbrooke Record, 28 May 2004, p. 7.
  2. Stéphanie Mac Farlane, "Sutton – Louise Martineau n'a pas gagné ses élections," Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine cowansville.enregion.ca, 23 November 2010, accessed 4 December 2010.
  3. Roger Fleury biography, rogerfleury.com, accessed 6 October 2010.
  4. Mark Shahin, "Parents fight cuts at home for disabled children," Ottawa Citizen, 31 January 1995, B1.
  5. Dave Rogers, "Gatineau voters' choice anything but simple," Ottawa Citizen, 25 October 2009, A9.
  6. Vincent Cliche, "Louis Hamel portera les couleurs du Parti vert dans Orford" Archived 2013-01-27 at archive.today, Le reflet du lac, 16 December 2006, accessed 4 February 2011.
  7. Dany Jacques, "Louis Hamel, un homme vert et d'action" Archived 2013-01-27 at archive.today, La reflect du lac, 6 December 2006, accessed 4 February 2011.
  8. Joey Olivier, "Patrick Lamothe défend l’option du Parti vert," The Voice, 15 November 2008, accessed 17 December 2009.
  9. Patrick Lamothe est le nouveau candidat du Parti Vert du Québec dans le comté de Richelieu, Portail officiel de la région de Sorel-Tracy, undated, accessed 17 December 2009.
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