Simon Jolin-Barrette

Simon Jolin-Barrette is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec, Jolin-Barrette (born 1987) was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election.[1] He represents the riding of Borduas as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).[2]

The Honourable
Simon Jolin-Barrette
MNA
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Borduas
Assumed office
April 7, 2014
Preceded byPierre Duchesne
Personal details
Born1987 (age 35–36)
NationalityCanadian
Political partyCoalition Avenir Québec

Political career

Jolin-Barrette was part of a group of 40 young entrepreneurs who joined the CAQ at the time of the party's founding in 2011. He ran as the CAQ candidate in Marie-Victorin in the 2012 Quebec election, coming in second to Bernard Drainville of the Parti Québécois (PQ).[3][4]

In the 2014 election, Jolin-Barrette defeated the PQ candidate in Borduas, Pierre Duchesne (the then Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology), by 99 votes.[5] Notwithstanding the small margin of defeat, Duchesne and the PQ chose not to seek a judicial recount of the ballots.[6]

Personal life

Jolin-Barrette grew up in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a south-shore suburb of Montreal.[3] He is a practicing lawyer, with a BCL (civil law), Juris Doctor (common law) and Master of Laws from the Université de Sherbrooke, where he wrote his Masters Thesis on the subject of Senate reform (comparing the Senate of Canada to the Australian Senate).[7]

At the time of his election in 2014, Jolin-Barrette was employed as a lawyer by the City of Montreal. He was also pursuing a LL.D in constitutional law at the Université de Montréal as well as a diploma in public administration at the École nationale d'administration publique.[3]

Minister of Immigration (2018–2020)

On October 18, 2018, Jolin-Barrette was sworn in as Minister of Immigration of Quebec, under Quebec Premier François Legault.[1]

As Minister of Immigration Jolin-Barrette in 2019, he introduced and passed Bill 21, the bill bans public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. The government invoked section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the notwithstanding clause) so as to prevent it from being overturned by the courts.[8]

Jolin-Barrette has been criticized by some for his introduction of Bill 9,[9] on February 7, 2019, cancelling out 18,000 immigration applications (Quebec Selection Certificates). The 18,000 applications from various parts of the world were accepted by the immigration department of Quebec according to the existing immigration intake rules at the time. After the CAQ government took charge, those applications were cancelled for which the immigration lawyer's association of Quebec has filed [10] and won a temporary injunction from the Superior court of Quebec.[11]

In late 2019, under Jolin Barrette term as Minister of Immigration Quebec he introduced a Quebec values test where immigrants would have to pass.[12][13][14][15][16]

Also in 2019, under Jolin Barrette term as Minister the title of Minister of Immigration, Diversity, and Inclusion was changed to Minister of Immigration, Francization and Integration.[17]

Minister of Justice and French Language (2020–present)

On June 22, 2020, Premier Legault shuffled his cabinet, and Jolin-Barrette was moved to the Ministry of Justice.[18]

In late 2020, Jolin-Barrette announced plans for 2021 that he will be strengthening Bill 101, the French language in the province of Quebec.[19][20]

On May 12, 2021, he announced bill 96 which will strengthen Bill 101.[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]

On October 21, he announced bill 2, an omnibus bill meant to reform family law. This bill faced unanimous disapproval from the trans community in Quebec.[28][29][30] Members of the trans community expressed fears that it would return Québec to the legal gender recognition laws that existed before 2015, could forcibly out trans people (if they chose to add the "gender" option instead of applying to change the "sex" field), and could potentially lead to people being "forced" into having surgery in order to change the contents of the "sex" field.[28] Celeste Trianon of the Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia University argued that the bill was "attempting to reintroduce a sterilizing surgical requirement," calling it "a direct attack on the trans community." Manon Massé, Québec solidaire co-leader, said that her party still needed to review the entirety of the bill, but that it appeared like it would move Québec "backwards in terms of the rights of trans, intersex and non-binary people."[31] Quebec Liberal Party LGBT+ spokesperson Jennifer Maccarone stated that the provisions were a "regressive change."[32]

On June 1, 2022, Jolin-Barette became the first to hold the position of minister of the French language; this was following the gaining of royal assent of Bill 96.[33]

Electoral record
2018 Quebec general election: Borduas
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Coalition Avenir QuébecSimon Jolin-Barrette20,85247.78+14.28
Parti QuébécoisCédric G.-Ducharme9,33921.4-11.87
Québec solidaireAnnie Desharnais6,82815.65+7.05
LiberalMartin Nichols5,01211.48-11.76
GreenNicolas Gravel8361.92
ConservativeAndré Lecompte2900.66+0.13
New DemocraticAndré Martin1840.42
Citoyens au pouvoirStéphane Thévenot1640.38
Bloc PotRazz E.1350.31
Total valid votes 43,640 98.65
Total rejected ballots 597 1.35
Turnout 44,237 76.41
Eligible voters 57,897
Coalition Avenir Québec hold Swing +13.08
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.
2014 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Coalition Avenir QuébecSimon Jolin-Barrette14,33133.50-0.45
Parti QuébécoisPierre Duchesne14,23233.27-6.05
LiberalJean Murray9,94423.24+6.12
Québec solidaireJean Falardeau3,6788.60+2.79
Option nationaleMarc-Olivier Siouï2460.58-1.43
ConservativeGilbert Gour2250.53–
Parti indépendantisteMichel Lepage1260.29+0.05
Total valid votes 42,78298.33–
Total rejected ballots 7271.67–
Turnout 43,50976.79-7.64
Electors on the lists 56,663––

References
  1. "Simon Jolin-Barrette - National Assembly of Québec". www.assnat.qc.ca. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  2. "François Legault indique qu'il restera à l'Assemblée nationale pour quatre ans". La Presse, April 8, 2014.
  3. "Simon Jolin-Barrette". Coalition Avenir Québec. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  4. "Marie-Victorin". Les résultats électoraux depuis 1867, Maisonneuve à Matane–Matapédia. National Assembly of Quebec. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014..
  5. "Borduas - Preliminary results". Directeur général des élections du Québec. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  6. "Pas de dépouillement judiciaire dans Ste-Marie-St-Jacques". La Presse. 11 April 2014. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014. Dans la circonscription de Borduas, l'ex-ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et ténor péquiste Pierre Duchesne a décidé de ne pas contester le résultat du scrutin.
  7. "Entrevue avec M. Simon Jolin-Barrette, avocat et candidat aux élections provinciales". Jurizone. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Bill n°9 : An Act to increase Québec's socio-economic prosperity and adequately meet labour market needs through successful immigrant integration - National Assembly of Québec". assnat.qc.ca. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  10. Feb 22, Benjamin Shingler · CBC News · Posted; February 22, 2019 6:43 AM ET | Last Updated. "Lawyers fight Quebec in court over plan to scrap 18,000 immigration applications | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  11. "Quebec judge orders province to continue processing Skilled Worker Program applications". CIC News. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  12. "Quebec to impose a 'values test' on immigrants as of Jan. 1". 30 October 2019.
  13. "Newcomers to Quebec will have to pass values test". 31 October 2019.
  14. "Here's a sample of the questions on Quebec's new values test | CBC News".
  15. "Quebec introduces 'values test' for immigrants". Business Standard India. 31 October 2019.
  16. "Quebec Immigration Minister working on French-language, values test for newcomers - Montreal | Globalnews.ca".
  17. "The CAQ Changed the Name of the Ministry of Immigration, "Inclusion & Diversity" Are Out". 11 October 2019.
  18. "Danielle McCann out as health minister as François Legault shakes up cabinet". cbc.ca. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  19. "On Bill 101 anniversary, Jolin-Barrette pledges to strengthen role of French".
  20. "Quebec government plans to table expanded French language law next year - Montreal | Globalnews.ca".
  21. "Quebec seeks to change Canadian Constitution, make sweeping changes to language laws with new bill | CBC News".
  22. "French in Quebec: Here are the main changes proposed in Bill 96".
  23. "Quebec tables sweeping bill to reinforce and protect French language | Globalnews.ca".
  24. "Bill 101 'constitutional curveball' puts Ottawa on the spot politically, experts say". 13 May 2021.
  25. "With Bill 101 reforms, François Legault risks upending Quebec's hard-won linguistic peace | CBC News".
  26. "French in Quebec: 'It's nothing against the English Quebecers,' Legault says of new bill | Montreal Gazette".
  27. "Quebec's Bill 96 could make French the only language needed to get a job | CBC News".
  28. "Trans-rights advocates raise alarm over Quebec birth certificate proposal, calling it 'huge regression'". Montreal. 21 October 2021.
  29. "Réforme du droit de la famille | Des trans dénoncent un recul majeur". La Presse. 23 October 2021.
  30. "Projet de loi 2 : TransEstrie dénonce une réforme " transphobe "". La Tribune. 24 October 2021.
  31. "Bill 2 is "the most transphobic bill ever proposed in Quebec," activist says". montrealgazette.
  32. "Proposed Quebec law slammed as 'regressive' and an affront on rights of trans people | CBC News".
  33. "Simon Jolin-Barrette appointed as Quebec's new French language minister". Montreal. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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