Caroline Desbiens
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Caroline Desbiens | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sylvie Boucher |
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| Born | L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Bloc Québécois |
Caroline Desbiens MP is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 election from Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix as a member of the Bloc Québécois.[1]
During the election 2019 election campaign, it was found that in 2013, Desbiens wrote on her Facebook page that the Charter of Quebec Values that was being proposed by the Parti Québécois government of the day should be supported even if it was not perfect. “Our daughters, grand-daughters and great-grand-daughters could have to wear a veil to go to the IGA for fear of going to prison in a few years,” In 2016, she praised far-right French politician Marine Le Pen for having the courage of her convictions on Facebook. “Whether one agrees or not or only partially with what Ms. Le Pen says, we need more people like her”.[2][3]
Electoral record[edit]
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Caroline Desbiens | 18,407 | 36.35 | +17.21 | ||||
| Conservative | Sylvie Boucher | 15,044 | 29.71 | -3.82 | ||||
| Liberal | Manon Fortin | 10,608 | 20.95 | -5.94 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gérard Briand | 2,841 | 5.61 | -12.85 | ||||
| Green | Richard Guertin | 1,355 | 2.68 | +0.98 | ||||
| No affiliation | Raymond Bernier | 1,335 | 2.64 | – | ||||
| People's | Jean-Claude Parent | 1,045 | 2.06 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,635 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 976 | 1.89 | ||||||
| Turnout | 51,611 | 67.45 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 76,515 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
References[edit]
- ^ "Canada election: Beauport–Côte-de-Beaupré–Île d'Orléans–Charlevoix". Globalnews. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bloc-says-up-to-quebeckers-to-judge-its-candidates-social-media-posts/
- ^ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bloc-quebecois-islamophobic-social-1.5316460
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
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