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Éric Duhaime (born April 15, 1969) is a Canadian conservative columnist, radio host, and politician serving as leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec since April 17, 2021.[1][2][3][4]
Éric Duhaime | |
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 Duhaime in 2022 | |
| Leader of Conservative Party of Quebec | |
| Assumed office April 17, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Adrien D. Pouliot |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Éric Joseph Duhaime April 15, 1969 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative (federal) Conservative (provincial) |
| Other political affiliations | CAQ (2012–2020) ADQ (2003–2012) |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal École nationale d'administration publique |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Early life and education
editBorn on April 15, 1969, in Montreal, Duhaime holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the Université de Montréal and a Master's degree from École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP).[5]
Career
editHe writes for the Journal de Montréal and the National Post[6] and is also a blogger. He participated in various blogs such as Les analystes [7] and also ran a blog on the pages of Journal de Québec (called En droite ligne).[8] He hosted Le retour d'Éric Duhaime on FM93 in Quebec City. He also worked as part of public affairs programs broadcast on Noovo, Télé-Québec and 98,5 FM.
In 2017, he allegedly helped fellow Rebel Media contributor Jack Posobiec translate the leaked emails from the Emmanuel Macron presidential campaign.[9]
He also worked for the Montreal Economic Institute, a free market think tank.[10]
Political career
editDuhaime spent more than a decade as a political advisor for different leaders in Ottawa and Quebec City. He was an advisor for Stockwell Day during his leadership of the Canadian Alliance from 2001 to 2004, Mario Dumont from 2003 to 2008 when Dumont was leader of the Action démocratique du Québec and Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois.[11] He was one of the campaign organizers for Marc Bellemare during his mayoralty in Quebec City with Vision Quebec from 2004 to 2006. He made his first run for office in 2003, when he ran for the ADQ in Deux-Montagnes, in which he placed third. In 2010, Duhaime co-founded the Réseau Liberté-Québec and the page Quebec fier (RLQ) along with Joanne Marcotte, Roy Eappen, Gérard Laliberté, Ian Sénéchal and Guillaume Leduc. The RLQ is a movement inspired by the advocating of a revival of conservatism and libertarianism in Quebec.[12]
Leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec
editOn November 22, 2020, Duhaime announced he would be running in the Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election to succeed Adrien D. Pouliot.[13][14][15] He won the election with just under 96% of the vote.[16]
Duhaime led the Quebec Conservatives in the 2022 Quebec general election, where he boosted the party's popular vote support from 1.46 percent in 2018 to nearly 13 percent. The party, however, won no seats in the National Assembly.
Personal life
editDuhaime is openly gay, coming out in his 2017 book La fin de l'homosexualité et le dernier gay.[17]
Electoral record
edit| 2022 Quebec general election: Chauveau | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Sylvain Lévesque | 20,292 | 46.84 | -0.22 | ||||
| Conservative | Éric Duhaime | 13,794 | 31.84 | +23.23 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Jimena Ruiz Aragon | 3,816 | 8.81 | -1.54 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Charles-Hubert Riverin | 3,307 | 7.63 | -1.57 | ||||
| Liberal | Igor Pivovar | 1,651 | 3.81 | -18.66 | ||||
| Parti nul | Renaud Blais | 213 | 0.49 | – | ||||
| Climat Québec | Christine Lepage | 201 | 0.46 | – | ||||
| Équipe Autonomiste | Nicolas Bouffard Savoie | 44 | 0.10 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 43,318 | 98.59 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 619 | 1.41 | ||||||
| Turnout | 43,937 | 75.68 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 58,059 | |||||||
Source(s)
electionsquebec.qc.ca | ||||||||
| Candidate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Votes cast | % | ||
|
Éric Duhaime | 9,773 | 95.99% |
| Daniel Brisson | 408 | 4.01% | |
| Rejected/Spoiled Ballots | 2 | 0.02% | |
| Total | 10,183 | 100.00 | |
| 2003 Quebec general election: Deux-Montagnes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Hélène Robert | 12,432 | 39.04 | -7.99 | ||||
| Liberal | Marc Lauzon | 12,099 | 37.99 | +7.02 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Éric Duhaime | 6,907 | 21.69 | +0.95 | ||||
| UFP | Julien Demers | 408 | 1.28 | +0.98[a] | ||||
| Total valid votes | 31,846 | 98.28 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 557 | 1.72 | +0.58 | |||||
| Turnout | 32,403 | 74.37 | -2.92 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 43,571 | – | – | |||||
- ^ Results taken from Socialist Democracy.
References
edit- ^ "Columnist, radio host Eric Duhaime elected leader of Conservative Party of Quebec". Montreal. April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ Saba, Michel (April 17, 2021). "L'animateur Éric Duhaime élu chef du Parti conservateur du Québec". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ "Éric Duhaime, nouveau chef du Parti conservateur du Québec" (in Canadian French). April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ "Columnist Éric Duhaime becomes new leader of Conservative Party of Quebec". April 18, 2021. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ "Éric Duhaime". Éric Duhaime (in Canadian French).
- ^ Comment, Full (August 11, 2010). "Éric Duhaime: National Assembly journalists shame Quebec | National Post". Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ "Éric Duhaime « Les analystes". Archived from the original on January 1, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ Éric Duhaime[usurped]
- ^ Lagacé, Patrick (May 13, 2017). "T'es toxique, Éric". La Presse (in French). Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ http://www.iedm.org/uploaded/pdf/mai2010b_fr.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Government of Canada (June 15, 2009), Le ministre d'état (réforme démocratique) annonce la mise sur pied d'un comité consultatif sur la création prochaine d'un organisme de promotion de la démocratie, retrieved October 31, 2010
- ^ Cheung, Andrew (September 5, 2010), Quebec's 'Tea Party' is born, retrieved September 30, 2011
- ^ "Éric Duhaime visera la chefferie du Parti conservateur du Québec". Radio Canada (in Canadian French). November 22, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ^ "Éric Duhaime se lance dans la course à la chefferie du Parti conservateur du Québec". Le Journal de Québec (in Canadian French). November 22, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ^ "Éric Duhaime souhaite diriger le Parti conservateur du Québec". La Presse (in Canadian French). November 22, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ^ a b "Soirée électorale Chefferie 2021". Facebook (in Canadian French). April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "J'ai lu le livre d'Éric Duhaime pour vous... de rien". Le Journal de Montréal. March 21, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2017.